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The Role of Case-Based Research in Information Technology and Systems

The Role of Case-Based Research in Information Technology and Systems

Roger Blake, Steven Gordon, G. Shankaranarayanan
Copyright: © 2013 |Pages: 21
ISBN13: 9781466624917|ISBN10: 1466624914|EISBN13: 9781466624924
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2491-7.ch011
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Blake, Roger, et al. "The Role of Case-Based Research in Information Technology and Systems." Information Systems Research and Exploring Social Artifacts: Approaches and Methodologies, edited by Pedro Isaias and Miguel Baptista Nunes, IGI Global, 2013, pp. 200-220. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2491-7.ch011

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Blake, R., Gordon, S., & Shankaranarayanan, G. (2013). The Role of Case-Based Research in Information Technology and Systems. In P. Isaias & M. Baptista Nunes (Eds.), Information Systems Research and Exploring Social Artifacts: Approaches and Methodologies (pp. 200-220). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2491-7.ch011

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Blake, Roger, Steven Gordon, and G. Shankaranarayanan. "The Role of Case-Based Research in Information Technology and Systems." In Information Systems Research and Exploring Social Artifacts: Approaches and Methodologies, edited by Pedro Isaias and Miguel Baptista Nunes, 200-220. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2013. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2491-7.ch011

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Abstract

Increasingly, academic research in Information Technologies and Systems (ITS) is emphasizing the application of research models and theories to practice. In this chapter, the authors posit that case-based research has a significant role to play in the future of research in ITS because of its ability to generate knowledge from practice and to study a problem in context. Understanding context—social, organizational, political, and cultural—is mandatory to learning and effectively adopting best practices. The authors describe some examples of case-based research to highlight this point of view. They further identify key topics and themes based on examining the abstracts from prominent case-based research over the past decade, analyzing their trends, and hypothesizing what the role of case-based research will be in the coming decades.

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