Rigor in information systems positivist case research: current practices, trends, and recommendations

By Line Dubé, Guy Paré. 2003

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Subfields: Management Information Systems, Sociology and Political Science

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Increasing collaboration and participation in smart city governance: a cross-case analysis of smart city initiatives (2017, methodology): “This particular research method was chosen due to its key characteristic of holistic investigation, which allows the understanding of the complex and ubiquitous interactions among organizations, technologies, and people (Dubé & Paré, 2003).”
Explaining Variations in Client Extra Costs Between Software Projects Offshored to India (2008, methodology): “The utilization of the case research methodology follows a widely recognized positivist research approach which intends to provide valuable insights into proposed interactions (Dube and Pare 2003).”
When Does Technology Use Enable Network Change in Organizations? A Comparative Study of Feature Use and Shared Affordances (2013, methodology): “In this way, I followed guidelines for explanatory case research in information systems and the social sciences (Dubé and Paré 2003; George and Bennett 2005), which suggest employing a longitudinal design so as to be able to explain the genesis of change, rather than infer it, by tracing causal…”
The Emergence of Self-Organizing E-Commerce Ecosystems in Remote Villages of China: A Tale of Digital Empowerment for Rural Development (2016, methodology): “To ensure the convergence of interpretations by interviewees, the rule of triangulation (Dubé and Paré 2003) was applied: multiple data sources (interviews, focus groups, and archival data) were used to filter " false preconceptions " of interviewees and researchers; this ensured consistency of…”
An Empirical Examination of the Influence of Organizational Culture on Knowledge Management Practices (2005, background): “Although it is often desirable to have multiple cases, there are contexts in which a single case design is preferred [18].”
Does Sample Size Matter in Qualitative Research?: A Review of Qualitative Interviews in is Research (2013, background): “Abundant qualitative research exists in the IS field, including a variety of reviews and recommendations tailored specifically to the use of qualitative methodology in the IS field [1, 9, 16, 17, 18, 19, 26, 40].”
Guest editorial: qualitative studies in information systems: a critical review and some guiding principles (2013, background): “Explicit research questions provide the direction of inquiry, and enable a connection between the research and its practical and theoretical contributions (Dubé and Paré 2003).”
Exploring the role of customer relationship management (CRM) systems in customer knowledge creation (2014, methodology): “The case methodology utilized was rigorous, satisfying criteria that Dubé and Paré recommended for a good IS positivist case study [17].”
Synthesizing information systems knowledge: A typology of literature reviews (2015, background): “For instance, Dube´ Pare´’s [107] review was categorized as ‘‘hybrid’’ because it pursued two main objectives, namely, to critically appraise the level of methodological rigor in positivist IS case research (critical review) and to identify patterns and trends in our use of this methodology (descrip”
How Big Data Analytics Enables Service Innovation: Materiality, Affordance, and the Individualization of Service (2018, background): “The phenomenon of interest is an emergent phenomenon that has previously not been subject to in-depth empirical investigation, so we sought revelatory cases [8].”
Bridging the Qualitative-Quantitative Divide: Guidelines for Conducting Mixed Methods Research in Information Systems (2013, methodology): “…(1989) for case studies in IS; (2) Klein and Myers (1999) for interpretive research in IS; (3) Mingers (2001) for multi-method research in IS; (4) Dubé and Paré (2003) for positivist case studies in IS; (5) Lee and Baskerville (2003) for generalizability in IS research; and (6) Hevner et al.…”
Investigating Information Systems with Positivist Case Research (2004, methodology): “While previous contributions [Benbasat et al., 1987; Lee, 1989; Dubé and Paré, 2003] proposed general principles and guidelines for conducting IS positivist case research (macro perspective), this paper offers a step-by-step methodology together with a set of key concepts, techniques, and tools on…”
Sensemaking and Sustainable Practicing: Functional Affordances of Information Systems in Green Transformations (2013, methodology): “To achieve these objectives, we conducted a revelatory qualitative case study (Dubé and Paré 2003) with a global software solutions provider that has successfully undergone a sustainability transformation.”
Explaining the internationalization of ibusiness firms (2015, methodology): “With explanatory case study research we adopted a positivist perspective (e.g., Dubé & Paré, 2003).”