PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
How to Use This Book
Overview of Qualitative Research
PART TWO: FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS OF RESEARCH
Chapter 1: Research Design
Chapter 2: Philosophical Perspectives
Chapter 3: Ethics
PART THREE: QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS
Chapter 4: Action Research
Chapter 5: Case Study Research
Chapter 6: Ethnographic Research
Chapter 7: Grounded Theory
PART FOUR: DATA COLLECTION TECHNIQUES
Chapter 8: Interviews
Chapter 9: Participant Observation and Fieldwork
Chapter 10: Using Documents
PART FIVE: ANALYSING QUALITATIVE DATA
Chapter 11: Analysing Qualitative Data: An Overviewing
Chapter 12: Hermeneutics
Chapter 13: Semiotics
Chapter 14: Narrative Analysis
PART SIX: WRITING UP AND PUBLISHING
Chapter 15: Writing up
Chapter 16: Getting Published
PART SEVEN: CONCLUSION
Chapter 17: Qualitative Research in Perspective
Michael D. Myers is Professor of Information Systems and Head of
the Department of Information Systems and Operations Management at
the University of Auckland Business School. His papers have
appeared in a wide range of journals, conferences and books. He won
the Best Paper award (with Heinz Klein) for the most outstanding
paper published in MIS Quarterly in 1999. This particular paper
(Klein and Myers, 1999) has been cited over 2000 times. He also won
the Best Paper Award (with Lynda Harvey) for the best paper
published in Information Technology & People in 1997. Professor
Myers currently serves as Senior Editor of Information &
Organization, as Senior Editor of Pacific Asia Journal of the AIS,
and as Editor of the AISWorld Section on Qualitative Research. He
previously served as Senior Editor of MIS Quarterly from 2001-2005,
as Senior Editor of Information Systems Research from 2008-2010,
and as Associate Editor of Information Systems Journal from
1995-2000. He also served as President of the Association for
Information Systems (AIS) in 2006-2007 and as Chair of the
International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP) Working
Group 8.2 from 2006-2008. He is a Fellow of the Association for
Information Systems.
The AISWorld Section on Qualitative Research that Michael edits has
won many awards. See AISWorld Section on Qualitative Research.
Qualitative Research in Business and Management is an accessible
and well-structured introduction in qualitative research. Myers
clearly explains the main concepts and principles of qualitative
research, illustrating them with recent examples from top journals.
Being concise and comprehensive, I consider this the best textbook
in the field.
*Inge Bleijenbergh*
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