Revista de Administração da UFSM (Dec 2008)
Tudo o que é sólido desmancha no ar. Os métodos usados nas pesquisas de Sistemas de Informação no Brasil, uma análise dos últimos cinco anos da área temática impactos socioculturais dos sistemas de informação no ENANPAD
Abstract
The Information System (IS) field is searching for its consolidation to become a reference subject, in order to that it is necessary a scientific rigor of the researches. Consequently, the interests in the analyses of the methodological rigor of the national and international studies of this field are growing. In this way, the aim of this paper is to present a survey of the methodologies and strategies used in publications of the Information Administration thematic area – Information System of the Socio cultural impacts of the ENANPAD, from 2003 to 2007. In order to get the proposed aim, the descriptive method (a bibliographic research) was adopted in this study. Through the analysis of 52 papers of the area, the predominance of the empirical studies (92%) were found in comparison to theory ones (8%). Furthermore, the qualitative approach represented the preference of the researchers in 50%, and the case study was the most used way of research. In relation to the nature, the descriptive and exploratory researches had the most relevant percentages, and the questionnaire was the instrument of data collect preferentially adopted. It was verified that just few studies had used multimethods in their surveys and that they go deep and complement the study.
