Positivism: one ring to rule them all? A tale of information systems research methodology Coulthard, Darryl and Richardson, Helen 2004, Positivism: one ring to rule them all? A tale of information systems research methodology, in Proceedings of the first international conference on qualitative research in IT & IT in qualitative research, Institute for Integrated & Intelligent Systems, Griffith University, Nathan, Qld., pp. 1-10. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Positivism: one ring to rule them all? A tale of information systems research methodology Author(s) Coulthard, Darryl Richardson, Helen Conference name Qualitative Research in IT & IT in Qualitative Research. Conference (1st: 2004: Brisbane, Qld.) Conference location Brisbane, Qld. Conference dates 24-26 Nov. 2004 Title of proceedings Proceedings of the first international conference on qualitative research in IT & IT in qualitative research Editor(s) Guest, Karen Publication date 2004 Conference series Qualitative Research in IT & IT in Qualitative Research Conference Start page 1 End page 10 Publisher Institute for Integrated & Intelligent Systems, Griffith University Place of publication Nathan, Qld. Summary The tale of research methodology in information systems is told through the fantasy of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. The tale is intended to be at once a piece of light hearted fun in its placement of the struggles of research methodology as an epic story but, in the tradition of the court jester, attempts to provide a new perspective on Information Systems (IS) research methodology and our struggles with positivism in particular. Our tale is one of developing a greater maturity and confidence in IS methodology and introduces postmodern methodologies to Information Systems. Our tale, our pastiche, is itself postmodern. ISBN 1920952071 9781920952075 Language eng Field of Research 080699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified Socio Economic Objective 970108 Expanding Knowledge in the Information and Computing Sciences HERDC Research category E1 Full written paper - refereed Copyright notice ©2004, Griffith University Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30005309 Document type: Conference Paper Collection: School of Information and Business Analytics Related Links Link Description Connect to published version Go to link with your DU access privileges     Link to Related Work Positivism: one ring to rule them all? A tale of information systems research methodology (deposited 09-12-2021) Griffith University, Institute for Integrated and Intelligent Systems Publisher (deposited 17-10-2011)   Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Tue, 24 Feb 2009, 11:51:45 EST Mon, 19 Apr 2010, 14:42:15 EST Fri, 04 Jun 2010, 12:51:30 EST Fri, 04 Jun 2010, 12:53:59 EST Tue, 08 Jun 2010, 13:21:26 EST Tue, 04 Jun 2013, 13:27:19 EST Tue, 11 Jun 2013, 14:53:40 EST Tue, 15 Oct 2013, 11:22:15 EST Fri, 17 Oct 2014, 08:40:09 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 588 Abstract Views, 0 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 07 Jul 2008, 09:48:05 EST