Using Critical Realism in IS Research: Operationalizing Key Constructs

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Thesis

par Kristine Merriman

Decree 28/2008

par Maria Vidal

Writing linguistic reserch

par ANDRES YAWAR CALCINA GUARACHI

Piaget-by Blorya

par Piaget-mindhomo-by Blorya Baruch

Using Critical Realism in IS Research: Operationalizing Key Constructs

4) Empirical work

case analyses

demonstrate key constructs

case description

Your project

Case context

IT in education

4) So what?

3) (from theory) key constructs of how to use CR in (empirical) IS resarch

list of issues to be demonstrated by the case

2) Theoretical lenses

How has CR been used within empirical work (in IS)

from here: what is needed?

summary of what we know

CR in IS research

What is CR?

1) Motivation

Why should you bother reading this paper?

So, what do you get?

A list of to-do´`´ s guiding empirical work using CR

tested/elaborated based on a rich data set

based on readings within CR

so far: conceptual discussion, need for more operationalised constructs to guide empirical work

We need to check if this is really true after reading the papers uploaded

CR: a third way of conducting/analysing research (qual/quant/CR)

Critical realism has been increasingly recognized in our dis- cipline as a promising philosophical tradition to overcome objectivism-relativism chasms (Mingers 2004; Smith 2010; Volkoff et al. 2007). It combines a realist ontology with an interpretive epistemology (Archer et al. 1998); although our knowledge of the world is socially constructed and fallible, that world exists, often independent of human beings (Mingers 2004). Contrary to judgmental relativism, critical realism therefore holds that some theories approximate reality better than others, making methodological approaches to assess knowledge claims meaningful. (Henfridson and Bygstad, MISQ)

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