AIS is excited to again provide an online resource on Quantitative Positivist Research in Information Systems to its members and the entire information systems community through the efforts of Detmar Straub, David Gefen, and Jan Recker.
Available at https://aisnet.org/page/ISResearch under Methods and Theories, this new online resource addresses the needs of quantitative, positivist researchers in IS research – in particular those just beginning to learn to use these methods.
This new resource is a continuation and extension of an earlier online resource on Quantitative Positivist Research that was originally created and maintained by Detmar Straub, David Gefen, and Marie Boudreau in the early 2000s. As the original online resource hosted at Georgia State University was no longer available, this new online resource republishes the original material including substantial revisions, updates and additions, to create what is hoped to be valuable information accessible to IS scholars.
“Our aim with website was to provide plain tutorial material but also mix in some more provocative ideas about this form of research," said Detmar Straub. "The idea most of all was to serve the college of scholars by setting in place a framing that helps to position work in the quantitative arena. The resource contains our experienced views of what quantitative research is about. But our views are neither unassailable nor complete. Some may disagree with our views. Some aspects are not articulated as fully or as strongly as they perhaps might have been. We consciously focused on the bare bones of quantitative work to give scholars in our field an entry point into the entire quantitative arena. Our resource is a doorstep, it is not the final say on any matter quantitative.”
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