The proposed principles are: freedom of movement and data, logging the inquiry using Latour's four notebooks, coding and following heterogeneous actants as cases, supporting contextual exploration of fluid and multiple ontologies, staying close to the words of the actants and working in a scale-free manner that enables shifting magnifications and assemblages to preserve detail rather than abstract it into themes. In opposition to this orthodoxy some orienting principles are proposed from the ANT literature along with its intellectual antecedent ethnomethodology. These approaches have become dominant enough such that they are often presented and/or interpreted as the right, or only way to work qualitatively with qualitative data. CAQDAS is often associated with particular approaches to engaging with data (e.g., coding data and retrieving the codes, abstracting and reducing data to themes etc.).
Through this it explores some of the challenges ANT poses to conventional uses of such tools, and the resources ANT provides for reconsidering their agency in research practices and possibilities for future developments. This paper explores how ideas from actor-network theory (ANT) can be drawn on to inform ways of using computer assisted qualitative data analysis software (CAQDAS) in an ANT-oriented project. We provide systematic guidelines for novice IS researchers seeking to conduct a robust literature review. By viewing the literature review process as a qualitative study and treating the literature as the " data set ", we address the complex puzzle of how best to extract relevant literature and justify its scope, relevance, and quality. We contribute to the literature by proposing a four-phased tool-supported methodology that serves as best practice in conducting literature reviews in IS. We discuss the means, value, and also pitfalls of applying tool-supported literature review approaches. We present a detailed case study as an illustrative example of the proposed approach put into practice. In this paper, we describe how to organize and prepare papers for analysis and provide detailed guidelines for actually coding and analyzing papers, including detailed illustrative strategies to effectively write up and present the results.
Qualitative data-analysis tools such as NVivo are immensely useful as a means to analyze, synthesize, and write up literature reviews. We highlight the untapped opportunities in using an end-to-end tool-supported literature review methodology. We overview work that has demonstrated the potential for using software tools in literature reviews. Hence, a structured and efficient approach is essential. It is important for researchers to efficiently conduct quality literature studies.
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