| Saturday,
May 31, 1997
Special
Event - a visit to the Barnes Art Collection |
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| Sunday,
June 1, 1997 |
| Session 1
8:30-10:00 |
Plenary |
Opening
remarks: Jonathan Liebenau & Allen Lee
Keynote address by M. Lynne Markus:
"The Qualitative Difference in Information Systems Research and Practice" |
| Session 2
10:30-12:00 |
Overviewing
and Assessing Qualitative IS Research (1 of 5 sessions): Hypertext Paper
on Case Studies |
John L. King
and Lynda M. Applegate: "Crisis in the Case Study Crisis: Marginal Diminishing
Returns to Scale in the Quantitative-Qualitative Research Debate"
Chair: Burt Swanson
Discussant: David Avison |
| Session 3
10:30-12:00 |
Panel: "Qualitative
Research Opportunities in Health Care" |
Panel Chair:
Bonnie Kaplan
Panelists: Francis Lau, Jos Aarts &
Diana E. Forsythe |
| Session 4
1:30-3:30 |
Developments
in Qualitative IS Research Approaches (1 of 3 sessions): Informing Future
Research Practice with Current Research Practice |
Michael Gallivan:
"Value in Triangulation: An Examination of IS Research Employing Mixed
Methods"
Lucia Garcia & Freddie Quek: "Qualitative
Research in Information Systems: Time to Be Subjective?"
Geoff Walsham: "Actor-Network Theory
and IS Research: Current Status and Future Prospects"
Chair: Raymond Hackney
Discussant: Hans J. Oppelland |
| Session 5
1:30-3:30 |
The Social
and Political Context of IS |
Steve Sawyer
& Richard Southwick: "Transitioning to Client/Server: Using a Temporal
Framework to Study Organizational Change"
Celia T. Romm & Nava Pliskin: "Playing
Politics with E-mail: A Longitudinal Conflict Based Analysis"
Leiser Silva & James Backhouse:
"Becoming Part of the Furniture: The Institutionalisation of Information
Systems"
Chair: Gurpreet Dhillon
Discussant: Connie Knapp |
| Session 6
4:00-5:30 |
Overviewing
and Assessing Qualitative IS Research (2 of 5 sessions): Paper and Panel
on Action Research |
Francis Lau:
"A Review on the Use of Action Research in Information Systems Studies"
Session and Panel Chair: Richard Baskerville
Panelists: Michael Myers, Peter Axel
Nielsen, Trevor Wood-Harper |
| Session 7
4:00-5:30 |
Illustrating,
Experiencing, and Being Critical in Ethnography (1 of 2 sessions) |
Lynda Harvey:
"A Discourse on Ethnography"
Eileen M. Trauth: "Achieving the Research
Goal with Qualitative Methods: Lessons Learned along the Way"
Chair: Eleanor H. Wynn
Discussant: Suprateek Sarker |
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| Monday,
June 2, 1997 |
| Session 8
8:30-10:00 |
Overviewing
and Assessing Qualitative IS Research (3 of 5 sessions): Paper on Process
and Variance Theories |
Thomas Shaw
& Sirkka Jarvenpaa: "Process Models in Information Systems"
Chair: M. Lynne Markus
Discussant: Dan Robey |
| Session 9
8:30-10:00 |
Illustrating,
Experiencing, and Being Critical in Ethnography (2 of 2 sessions) |
Karen Ruhleder
& Brigitte Jordan: "Capturing Complex, Distributed Activities: Video-Based
Interaction Analysis as a Component of Workplace Ethnography"
Michael Myers: "Critical Ethnography
in Information Systems"
Chair: Lucas Introna
Discussant: Linda Jo Calloway |
| Session 10
10:30-12:00 |
Overviewing
and Assessing Qualitative IS Research (4 of 5 sessions): Paper on Ethnography |
Pushkala Prasad:
"Systems of Meaning: Ethnography as a Methodology for the Study of Information
Technologies"
Chair: Wanda Orlikowski
Discussant: Michelle Brown |
| Session 11
10:30-12:00 |
Interviewing
and the Interviewer |
Marius Janson,
Tor Guimaraes, Ann Brown & Tharsi Taillieu: "Exploring a Chairman of
the Board's Construction of Organizational Reality: The Colruyt Case"
Paul Mantelaers: "Acquiring Expert
Knowledge on IS-Function Design"
Chair: Jonathan Liebenau
Discussant: Helena Karsten |
| Session 12
1:30-3:30 |
Interpretation
and IS Requirements Definition |
Elizabeth J.
Davidson: "Examining Project History Narratives: An Analytic Approach"
Cathy Urquhart: "Exploring Analyst-Client
Communication: Using Grounded Theory Techniques to Investigate Interaction
in Informal Requirements Gathering"
Christopher Westrup: "Constituting
Users in Requirements Techniques"
Chair: Ann Brown
Discussant: Gordon B. Davis |
| Session 13
1:30-3:30 |
Developments
in Qualitative IS Research Approaches (2 of 3 sessions): Inaugurating New
Approaches |
Lucas Introna
& Edgar Whitley: "Imagine: Thought Experiments in Information Systems
Research?"
Soon Ang & Assafa Endeshaw: "Legal
Case Analysis in I/S Research: Failures in Employing and Outsourcing for
IT Professionals"
Richard Vidgen & Kristin Braa:
"Applying an Information Systems Research Framework: Identifying the Need
for an ‘Action Case’ Method"
Chair: Joyce J. Elam
Discussant: Ronald Stamper |
| Session 14
4:00-5:30 |
Overviewing
and Assessing Qualitative IS Research (5 of 5 sessions): Panel
on Critical Social Theory |
Chair: Ojelanki
Ngwenyama
Panel Members: Gordon Davis, Duane
Truex & Paul Cule |
| Session 15
4:00-5:30 |
Developments
in Qualitative IS Research Approaches (3 of 3 sessions): Positivist Case
Research |
Guy Paré
& Joyce J. Elam: "Using Case Study Research to Build Theories of IT
Implementation"
Chair: Allen Lee
Discussant: Eileen Trauth |
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| Tuesday,
June 3, 1997 |
| Session 16
8:30-9:15 |
Plenary Session |
Jonathan Liebenau
& Allen Lee |
| Session 17
9:30-10:45 |
Panel: "The
Future of Qualitative Research in Information Systems" |
Panel Participants:
Enid Mumford, Jaana Porra & Joe Nandakumar |
| Session 18
11:00-12:00 |
Conference
Retrospective and Closing Remarks |
Ken Kendall
& Hans-Erik Nissen |
| 1:45-3:15 |
8.2 business meeting |
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