Multi-méthodologie réaliste critique dans la Recherche en Systèmes d'Information

The study of information systems is a multidisciplinary field. As a multidisciplinary field, there has been a long tradition of referencing multiple disciplines to its develop. Disciplines related with information technology, communication, management, systems theory, sociology, among other. By consequence, information system research has been developed thanks to a variety of paradigms, methods and approaches used by different disciplines. Although research in information systems has been mainly developed in the positivist paradigm, there are increasingly works in anti-positivist paradigms. The aim of this study is to illustrate – how the critical realism can be used in information system research in a practical way, and – why a critical realist research must be developed with a multi-methodology.

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