Epistemology and methodology in case research: A comparison between european and american is journals

Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Information Systems, Information Systems in a Rapidly Changing Economy, ECIS 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  De Vries, Erik J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Case research methodology; Epistemology; European perspective; Evaluation

Indexed keywords

EPISTEMOLOGY; EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE; EVALUATION; NORTH AMERICAN; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS; QUALITATIVE STUDY; RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES; RESEARCH METHODS; STUDY DESIGN;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

RESEARCH;

EID: 84870980362     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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