The research audit trial - enhancing trustworthiness in qualitative inquiry

Electronic Journal of Business Research Methods

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 11-24

  Carcary, Marian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Higher education; Information technology; Interpretivist paradigm; Qualitative research; Research audit trail; Research confirmability; Transferability; Trustworthiness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867100216     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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