aThe issues public relations has with silence and invisibility partly derive from the influential post-positivist paradigm in its theory and practice. They are also due to the current media culture, which puts visual facticity before textual knowledge. In the era of multi-screen communication, ...
An emerging postpositivist paradigm for inquiry and research is outlined, based on recent thinking in philosophy, the natural sciences, and the social sciences. The paper delineates the paradigm's basic beliefs, considers methodological implications, and suggests applications in the education of the gi...
The paradigm within which triangulation originally assumed significance was a positivist one, where the goal of research was the identification of a singular truth and the validity of any conclusion was subject to the required convergence of corroborative data. In this chapter, we argue that ...
in cross-cultural research in which English is the originator language (=-=Gales, 2003-=-).sBoothman (2002), similarly, noted that although it might be possible to find an analogous conceptsfrom one paradigm (or language) to another, the significance of the particular concept might varysI....
postpositivismpositivismpostmodernismInformation SystemsThis paper explores the association between postmodernism and interpretivism. The paper's objective is to show that the interpretivist research paradigm shows very clear postmodernist traits. After defining the two concepts the paper attempts ...
research paradigmsynthesisdialectictriangulation frameworkepistemologyfalsifiabilityFront-end-loaded Grounded Theory Method (FGTM)multiple methodsmixed methodsAs authors of Information Systems (IS) Action Research (AR) studies attempt to report their results, the calls for AR research design, conduct, ...
to human beings and the principle of endogeny, or "internality" of actions supposed as private.;Court decisions are subsequently categorized by topic and indexed in relation to the paradigm through four essential parameters found in the theory: formalism, pragmatism, provisionalism, and absolutism....