This paper provides suggestions of doing a grounded theory business research. The main intention is to provide guidelines and suggestions for novice researchers, students and their supervisors in conducting a grounded theory business research. The main discussion of this paper will focus on the principles driving a grounded theory research, the choice between the two versions of grounded theory...

Research into domain specific ontologies is difficult to treat empirically. This is because it is difficult to ground domain ontology while simultaneously being true to its guiding philosophy or theory. Further, ontology generation is often introspective and reflective or relies on experts for ontology generation. Even those relying on expert generation lack rigour and tend to be more ad-hoc. W...

In this paper, we describe grounded theory methodology, its purpose and application in addressing research problems. We highlight the divergences debates on how to apply methodology. examine of methodology prior accounting research. conclude paper by identifying quality criteria for conduct grounded-theory Our contributes assembling a wide body literature methods summarising that clear accessib...

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...