The nature of research: Qualitative or quantitative, narrative or paradigmatic?

Information Systems Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 131-146

  Remenyi, Dan ^a,b   Williams, Brian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c Epidemiology Unit   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Narrative thinking; Paradigms; Qualitative research; Quantitative research; Research methodology; Theoretical conjectures

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000836917     PISSN: 13501917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2575.1996.tb00009.x     Document Type: Article

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