Grounded action research: A method for understanding IT in practice

Accounting, Management and Information Technologies

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-23

  Baskerville, Richard ^a   Pries Heje, Jan ^b  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Action research; Ethnography; Grounded theory; Information systems design; Information systems research; Prototyping; Qualitative research; Research methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650136608     PISSN: 09598022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-8022(98)00017-4     Document Type: Article

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