Enacting Research Methods in Information Systems: Volume 1

LeslieP. Willcocks is Professor of Technology, Work, and Globalization at theDepartment of Management at London School of Economics, UK. ChrisSauer is a Senior Tutor at Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, UK andan Associate Fellow of the Said Business School, UK. Mary C. Lacity is Curators' Professor of Information Systems and an InternationalBusiness Fellow at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, US.

• Introduction –LeslieWillcocks, Chris Sauer and Mary Lacity.- PART I. CRITICALRESEARCH.- Chapter 1: Doolin, B. (1998),“Information technology as disciplinary technology: being critical ininterpretive research on information systems,” JIT, Vol. 13, pp. 301-311.- Chapter 2: Brooke, C. (2002),“What does it mean to be ‘critical’ in IS research?” JIT, Vol. 17, pp. 49-57.- Chapter 3: Brook, C. (2002),“Critical perspectives on information systems; an impression of the researchlandscape,” JIT, Vol. 17, pp.271-283.- Chapter 4: Doolin, B. and Lowe,A. (2002), “To reveal is to critique: actor-network theory and criticalinformation systems research,” JIT,Vol. 17, 69-78-. Chapter 5: Cecez-Kecmanovic,D., Janson, M., and Brown, A. (2002), “The rationality framework for a criticalstudy of information systems, JIT,Vol. 17, pp. 215-227.- PART II. GROUNDED THEORYAPPROACHES.- Chapter 6: Urquhart, C. andFernandez, W. (2013), “Using grounded theory method in information systems: theresearcher as blank slate and other myths,” JIT,Vol. 28, pp. 224–236.- Chapter 7: Seidel, S., andUrquhart, C. (2013), “On emergence and forcing in information systems groundedtheory studies: the case of Strauss and Corbin,” JIT, Vol. 28, pp. 237-260.- PART III. HISTORICALAPPROACHES.- Chapter 8: Land, F. (2010),“The use of history in IS research: an opportunity missed?” JIT, Vol. 25, pp. 385-394.- Chapter 9: Mitev, N., deVaujany, F.X. (2012), “Seizing the opportunity: towards a historiography ofinformation systems,” JIT, Vol. 27,pp. 110-124-. Chapter 10: Bonner, W. (2013),“History and IS – Broadening our view and understanding: Actor–Network Theoryas a methodology,” JIT, Vol. 28, pp.111–123.