Achieving rigor in literature reviews: Insights from qualitative data analysis and tool-support

Communications of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 37, Issue , 2015, Pages 154-204

  Bandara, Wasana ^a   Furtmueller, Elfi ^b   Gorbacheva, Elena ^c   Miskon, Suraya ^d   Beekhuyzen, Jenine ^e  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coding scheme; IS literature; NVivo; Qualitative literature reviewing methods; Research integration; Rigorous review

Indexed keywords

DATA HANDLING;

BEST PRACTICES; CODING SCHEME; LITERATURE REVIEWS; LITERATURE STUDIES; NVIVO; QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS; QUALITATIVE LITERATURE REVIEWING METHODS; QUALITATIVE STUDY;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84940368887     PISSN: 15293181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1cais.03708     Document Type: Article

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