Big data & inductive theory development: Towards computational Grounded Theory?

20th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  Berente, Nicholas ^a   Seidel, Stefan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIECHTENSTEIN   (Liechtenstein)

Author keywords

Big data; Computational grounded theory; Grounded theory; Theory development

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIG DATA; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EPISTEMOLOGICAL FOUNDATION; GROUNDED THEORY; GROUNDED THEORY METHODS; INDUCTIVE THEORIES; METHODOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE; RATIONAL RECONSTRUCTION; THEORY DEVELOPMENT; TRACE DATA;

COMPUTATION THEORY;

EID: 84905994196     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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