Handicraft production is seen to be a promising opportunity to provide sustainable productive employment in the rural areas of the Philippines. The full implementation of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership opened opportunities for bigger international market but ushered in tougher...

Purpose This study aims to investigate barriers and enablers of social media usage by zooming on one specific type of domain: disaster management. First, by systematically reviewing previous studies using a typology to social media usage, this study identifies the challenges often faced. Second,...

Purpose The critical incident technique (CIT) is widely used in many disciplines; however, scholars have acknowledged challenges associated with analyzing qualitative data when using this technique. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to address the data analysis issues that have been...

Crowd Logistics (CL) is identified as a topic of high importance in the area of logistics. From the practical point of view, initial experiences and realizations have already been gained, however, scientific research regarding Crowd Logistics is still in its infancy and multiple research...

Social media continues to proliferate. This article presents a qualitative analysis of twelve cases of social-media-based knowledge sharing. The analysis reveals six categories of knowledge sharing in the social context. The analysis indicates that personalization of the organization entities...

Рассматривается методическое обеспечение, используемое при анализе структуры потребления туристского продукта, основанное на мониторинге потребительского...

The importance of alignment between business and information technology (IT) for generating IT business value has been emphasized in many research papers. Current literature broadly supports that capable and sustainable enterprise architecture is essential to support business processes as well...

Qualitative research is frequently utilized in family business research. Reporting on qualitative research findings typically involves summarizing themes or approaches, or tabulating the frequency of mentions for topics, phrases or words. Correspondence analysis is a method that is seldom used...

In qualitative field studies, researchers frequently deal with comprehending a multifaceted reality. Large quantities of data are collected for analysis at a later stage. Alternation between proximity and distance is a crucial mechanism in the analysis of qualitative data. This article’s aim...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to team broadly accepted general management frameworks with the specific situation of corporate real estate and suggest a holistic configurations framework for CREM that takes into account the highly diverse context parameters. Design/methodology/approach...

Purpose – Recently, focus in strategic sourcing (SS) has shifted from the exchange of tangible goods toward the exchange of intangibles, such as specialized skills, knowledge, and processes. The purpose of this paper is to aim to delineate the domain of, and operationally test, strategic...

In this research note we describe a method for exploring the creation of causal loop diagrams (CLDs) from the coding trees developed through a grounded theory approach and using computer aided qualitative data analysis software (CAQDAS). The theoretical background to the approach is...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to draw on experience in supervising new researchers and the advice of other writers, to offer novice researchers, such as those engaged in study for a thesis, a pragmatic introduction to conducting research interviews. Design/methodology/approach –...

In this research, a computer assisted framework was developed to help researchers in conducting qualitative research. This framework leveraged the GATE platform, along with natural language processing and knowledge extraction techniques, to develop an automatic text annotation and summarisation...

This annually updated quality report provides the users with a tool for assessing the quality of the European Union foreign trade statistics. It gives a summary of the main quality indicators: timeliness, accuracy, accessibility, clarity, comparability, and coherence. The quality report is...

Two ideal types of data can be distinguished in housing research: structured and less-structured data. Questionnaires and official statistics are examples of structured data, while less-structured data arise for instance from open interviews and documents. Structured data are sometimes labelled...