Qualitative Research with Socio-Technical Grounded Theory

Rashina Hoda is a Professor of Software Engineering in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University, Australia, where she researches the human and socio-technical aspects of software engineering (SE) and artificial intelligence. Rashina has been immersed in empirical qualitative research for two decades, practicing, supervising, reviewing, and editing qualitative SE research. She is an active member of the international SE research community, serving as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering and on the organizing and program committees for top-rated international conferences as ICSE, CHASE, FSE, ICIS, and XP. She is a public speaker, presenting her research at Agile conferences, industry and public events, and in the media.

• Preface .- Part I Introduction: .- 1 About this Book .- 2 Traditional Grounded Theory Methods .- 3 Socio-technical Grounded Theory .- Part II Foundations of Research: .- 4 Research Design Canvas .- 5 Research Philosophy .- 6 Literature Reviews .- Part II Qualitative Data Collection and Analysis .- 7 Basics of Qualitative Data Collection .- 8 Techniques of Qualitative Data Collection .- 9 Qualitative Data Preparation and Filtering .- 10 Socio-technical Grounded Theory for Qualitative Data Analysis .- Part IV Theory Development .- 11 What is Theory ? .- 12 Theory Development .- Part V Evaluation and Future Directions .- 13 Evaluation Guidelines .- 14 Future Directions in Qualitative Research .