A methodology for analyzing Web-based qualitative data

Journal of Management Information Systems

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 213-246

  Romano Jr , Nicholas C ^a,b   Donovan, Christina ^c,d   Chen, Hsinchun ^b   Nunamaker Jr , Jay F ^b  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c CISCO SYSTEMS   (United States)

^d HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes and purchase intentions; Clustering; Coding; Elicitation; Future sales predictions; Information systems (IS); Qualitative data analysis (QDA) methodology; Reduction; Selection; Visualization

Indexed keywords

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; WORLD WIDE WEB;

QUALITATIVE DATA (QD);

DATA REDUCTION;

EID: 0037368017     PISSN: 07421222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07421222.2003.11045741     Document Type: Conference Paper

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