Grounded Theory in Information Systems Research

Schedule and location

Tuesday March 29th - Wednesday March 30th

Room A-304, Aalto University BIZ (Runeberginkatu 14-16, Helsinki)

Registration

Registration is open February 2nd - March 22nd .

Speakers

Professor Walter Fernandez, University of New South Wales Australia.
Dr. Riitta Hekkala, Aalto University School of Business, Finland.

Organizer

Professor Virpi Tuunainen, Aalto University School of Business, Finland.

Overview

Detailed Program

Day 1

*Time*	*Activity*
10:00-11:00	Morning session I: What is GTM? Welcome and Introductions: Who am I and what am I studying? GTM Primer - The basic social process of doing grounded theory.
11:00-11:30	Break
11:00-12:30	Morning session II: Myths and Misconceptions Addressing myths and misconceptions: how to tackle ignorance and prejudice in your research and in your papers (Following Urquhart and Fernandez, 2013)
12:30-13:30	Lunch
13:30-15:00	Afternoon session I: Publishing GTM Why some GTM papers fail to be published? In this session we will discuss why many GTM papers never see the light of publication. We will be talking about common issues and how they should be addressed.
15:00-15:30	Break
15:30-16:00	Afternoon session II: How to evaluate a GTM study, an informed and non-partisan way of assessing goodness of GTM studies.

Day 2

*Time*	*Activity*
09:30-11:00	Morning session I: Troubleshooting Working on your problems – What is stopping/bothering you? For this section you need to think about the top three concerns you have regarding your GTM study. We will then analyse the full list of concerns and address them.
11:00-11:30	Coffee break
11:30-13:00	Morning session II: Troubleshooting Continue to work on your problems and issues arising during the previous discussions.
	Close

Credit points

Doctoral students participating in the seminar can obtain 2 credit points. This requires participating on all of the days and completing the assignment.

Registration fee

This seminar is free-of-charge for Inforte.fi member organization's staff and their PhD students. For others the participation fee is 750 €. The participation fee includes access to the event and the event materials. Lunch and dinner are not included.