Qualitative Research in Business and Management

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.

• Part I: IntroductionChapter 1: How to Use This BookChapter 2: Overview of Qualitative ResearchPart II: Fundamental Concepts of ResearchChapter 3: Research DesignChapter 4: Philosophical PerspectivesChapter 5: EthicsPart III: Qualitative Research MethodsChapter 6: Action ResearchChapter 7: Case Study ResearchChapter 8: Ethnographic ResearchChapter 9: Grounded TheoryPart IV: Data Collection TechniquesChapter 10: InterviewsChapter 11: Participant Observation and FieldworkChapter 12: Using DocumentsPart V: Analysing Qualitative DataChapter 13: Analysing Qualitative Data: An OverviewChapter 14: HermeneuticsChapter 15: SemioticsChapter 16: Narrative AnalysisPart VI: Writing Up and PublishingChapter 17: Writing UpChapter 18: Getting PublishedPart VII: ConclusionChapter 19: Qualitative Research in Perspective

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