Due to its dynamic and rapid development and due to a variety of academic disciplines and research communities contributing to information systems (IS) research, a broad variety of research approaches can be found. These approaches are often discussed as contrasting “paradigms”. Positivism and interpretivism are frequently accepted to be the most relevant paradigms (cf., for instance, Klein & M...

Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) penetration is growing at exponential rates and affecting societies, countries and organizations, which has led to a need for understanding whether they contribute to development. To ascertain whether ICT are contributing to development, the example of a current ICT, Twitter is used, along with the aim of this research: To understand and explain...

The research explored the impact of artisanal mining on career development adolescents at three selected schools in Imbizo District, Bulawayo Metropolitan Province. Interpretivism philosophy was employed study, and a qualitative method used. phenomenological design adopted for study. sample comprised fifteen school children aged between 14 to 20 years, six teachers were from district province, ...

This paper uses desktop review to critique Ndlovu (2014)’s analysis of South Africa’s ‘exceptionalism’ and ‘xenophobia’ based on the articulations minister Sports Fikile Mbalula at Cape Town stadium in September 2014. Critical underpinned interpretivism was used argue that chose an irrelevant case frame his problem. resulted biased as published. (2014) is ignorant influence sports rivalrism hum...

Information Richness Theory (IRT) has enjoyed acceptance by information systems researchers throughout the last decade, but recent unfavorable empirical evidence has precipitated a shift away from it and a search for a new theory. Because of this shift, a new definition of communication richness is needed to succeed the IRT definition. Since its inception, IS research on communication richness ...