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Willcocks, Leslie

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Topic Weight Topic Terms
0.381 critical realism theory case study context affordances activity causal key identifies evolutionary history generative paper
0.192 information issue special systems article introduction editorial including discusses published section articles reports various presented
0.125 information systems paper use design case important used context provide presented authors concepts order number
0.113 capital social ict communication rural icts cognitive society information well-being relational india societal empirically create

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CRITICAL REALISM IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS RESEARCH. (MIS Quarterly, 2013)
Authors: Abstract:
    The authors introduce the special section on the topic of the application of critical realism theory to information systems (IS) research. An overview is presented of the basic concepts of critical realism, such as retroduction, agency, and reflexivity. They explore several articles within the issue, including "Technological Objects, Social Positions, and the Transformational Model of Social Activity," by P. Faulkner and J. Runde, "Methodological Implications of Critical Realism for Mixed-Methods Research," by M. Zachariadis, S. Scott, and M. Barrett, and "Explaining Broadband Adoption in Rural Australia: Modes of Reflexivity and the Morphogenetic Approach," by P. Dobson, P. Jackson, and D. Gengatharen.