Qualitative Research in Information Systems or Changing Health Care Systems and Rheumatic Disease

Qualitative Research in Information Systems (Introducing Qualitative Methods Series)

Author: Michael D Myers

Qualitative research has become a legitimate approach within the information systems community, but researchers have traditionally drawn upon material from the social sciences given the absence of a single source relevant to them. Qualitative Research in Information Systems: A Reader represents just such a volume and is both timely and relevant.

Information systems and qualitative research articles are now widely used for teaching on many upper level courses in information systems, and there is demand for a definitive collection of these readings as a basic reader and teaching text. This book expertly brings together the seminal works in the field, along with editorial introductions to assist the reader in understanding the essential principles of qualitative research.

The book is organised according to the following thematic sections:

· Part I: Overview of Qualitative Research

· Part II: Philosophical Perspectives

· Part III: Qualitative Research Methods

· Part IV: Modes of Analyzing and Interpreting Qualitative Data

Qualitative Research in Information Systems: A Reader should become the benchmark reference point for students and researchers in information systems, management science and others involved in information technology needing to learn about qualitative research.

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Provides students and researchers in information systems (IS), management science, and others involved in information technology with a resource presenting seminal works in the field of qualitative research in information systems. Organized into four sections, contributions to the volume discuss qualitative research in IS; various philosophical perspectives in the field; qualitative research methods; and modes of analyzing and interpreting qualitative data. Some of the topics addressed include power, politics, and MIS implementation; the nature and method of interpretive case studies in IS research; a scientific methodology for MIS case studies; and information system use as a hermeneutic process. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Acknowledgements
1	An Introduction to Qualitative Research in Information Systems	3
2	Choosing Appropriate Information Systems Research Methodologies	13
3	Power, Politics, and MIS Implementation	19
4	Studying Information Technology in Organizations: Research Approaches and Assumptions	51
5	The Case Research Strategy in Studies of Information Systems	79
6	Interpretive Case Studies in IS Research: Nature and Method	101
7	The Critical Social Theory Approach to Information Systems: Problems and Challenges	115
8	A Critical Perspective on Action Research as a Method for Information Systems Research	129
9	A Scientific Methodology for MIS Case Studies	147
10	Scholarship and Practice: the Contribution of Ethnographic Research Methods to Bridging the Gap	169
11	CASE Tools as Organizational Change: Investigating Incremental and Radical Changes in Systems Development	181
12	Information System Use as a Hermeneutic Process	225
13	Symbolism and Information Systems Development: Myth, Metaphor and Magic	241
	Bibliography	275
	Author index	299
	Subject index	307

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Changing Health Care Systems and Rheumatic Disease

Author: Frederick J J Manning

Market forces are driving a radical restructuring of health care delivery in the United States. At the same time, more and more people are living comparatively long lives with a variety of severe chronic health conditions. Many such people are concerned about the trend toward the creation of managed care systems because their need for frequent, often complex, medical services conflicts with managed care's desires to contain costs. The fear is that people with serious chronic disorders will be excluded from or underserved by the integrated health care delivery networks now emerging. Responding to a request from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, this book reflects the results of a workshop that focused on the following questions:

• Does the model of managed care or an integrated delivery system influence the types of interventions provided to patients with chronic conditions and the clinical and health status outcomes resulting from those interventions?
• If so, are these effects quantitatively and clinically significant, as compared to the effects that other variables (e.g., income, education, ethnicity) have on patient outcomes?
• If the type of health care delivery system appears to be related to patient care and outcomes, can specific organizational, financial, or other variables be identified that account for the relationships?
• If not, what type of research should be pursued to provide the information needed about the relationship between types of health care systems and the processes and outcomes of care provided to people with serious chronic conditions?