Putting the 'theory' back into grounded theory: Guidelines for grounded theory studies in information systems

Information Systems Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 357-381

  Urquhart, Cathy ^a   Lehmann, Hans ^b   Myers, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Grounded theory; Guidelines for grounded theory; Research methods; Theory building

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954636623     PISSN: 13501917     EISSN: 13652575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2575.2009.00328.x     Document Type: Article

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