Much of the research in the Information Systems (IS) field has been dominated by the application of reference discipline theory to IS phenomena. While this has provided useful lenses for rapid development of a theory base for IS, it has also helped shape the IS domain as an amalgam of heterogeneous topics, methods, and lessons, many of which apply more to behavioral science in general than IS i...

As digital evidence grows in both volume and importance in criminal and civil courts, judges need to fairly and justly evaluate the merits of the offered evidence. To do so, judges need a general understanding of the underlying technologies and applications from which digital evidence is derived. Due to the relative newness of the computer forensics field, there have been few studies on the use...

The founding fathers of grounded theory (GT) claimed it is an inductive methodological approach. Yet, some scholars argue that purely inductive GTs are not possible given researchers’ involvement in data collection and analysis. Subsequently, a constructivist GT approach was introduced. Still, full-length methodological articles that include rationales or detailed explanations for using constru...

Abstract Despite many studies about video feedback in both face-to-face and online settings, little research has been carried out exploring how this technique is perceived by students learning the pronunciation of specific sounds a foreign language. Adopting grounded theory as methodology dialogic approach conceptual framework, present study shows that anxious welcome feedback. The design activ...

Software process improvement (SPI) aims to understand the software process as it is used within an organisation and thus drive the implementation of changes to that process to achieve speciWc goals such as increasing development speed, achieving higher product quality or reducing costs. Accordingly, SPI researchers must be equipped with the methodologies and tools to enable them to look within ...

Gillian S. Gremmels is Library Director at Davidson College; e-mail: [email protected]. © 2015 Gillian S. Gremmels, Attribution-NonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) CC BY-NC. Introduction Even after almost thirty years, I vividly remember reading Constance A. Mellon’s article, “Library Anxiety: A Grounded Theory and Its Development,” when it appeared in the March...

Materials and methods We conducted a retrospective case study using two sources: 1) the Ontario Coroner’s database from 20032011; and 2) unpublished death reports between 1986 and 2000 gathered by Anaphylaxis Canada. Outcomes of interest included type of allergen, nature of reaction and treatment. Analyses included descriptive statistics and frequency analysis (quantitative data) and grounded t...

THISARTIC1,E COMPARES THE QUALITATIVE METHOD Of grounded theory (GT) with Ranganathan’s construction of faceted classifications (FC) in library and information science. Both struggle with a core problem-i.e., the representation of vernacular words and processes, empirically discovered, which will, although ethnographically faithful, be powerful beyond the single instance or case study. The arti...