Evaluating Qualitative Research: Education of the Guard

Despite a well-established tradition within the information systems discipline and wider management investigations, researchers are frequently required to remind if not educate reviewers as to how qualitative research should be evaluated. This paper reviews and discusses criteria that have been proposed for grounded theory, ethnographic, confessional, postmodern, and interpretive and positivist case studies.

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