Resumen de Towards an integration of paradigmatic and pragmatic research in Information Systems

Johannes Christoffel Cronje

• This paper responds to Izak van Zyl’s call for Pragmatism in Information Systems research in preference over Paradigmatic research as embodied by Burrell and Morgan’s (1979) four sociological research paradigms.  The paper presents an adaptation of Burrell and Morgan’s four paradigms to develop a set of research aims and corresponding questions. The research aims and questions are then tested against eight recent research papers to validate the individual paradigms and then one paper is analysed in depth to demonstrate how a pragmatist research project can be executed by following a sequential and cyclic path through the four paradigms.