Indulska, Marta, Hovorka, Dirk S. and Recker, Jan C. ORCID: 0000-0002-2072-5792
(2012).
Quantitative approaches to content analysis: Identifying conceptual drift across publication outlets.
European journal of information systems : EJIS ; an official journal of the Operational Research Society, 21 (1).
pp. 49-69.
London:
Taylor and Francis.
ISSN 1476-9344
Abstract
Unstructured text data, such as emails, blogs, contracts, academic publications, organizational documents, transcribed interviews, and even tweets, are important sources of data in Information Systems research. Various forms of qualitative analysis of the content of these data exist and have revealed important insights. Yet, to date, these analyses have been hampered by limitations of human coding of large data sets, and by bias due to human interpretation. In this paper, we compare and combine two quantitative analysis techniques to demonstrate the capabilities of computational analysis for content analysis of unstructured text. Specifically, we seek to demonstrate how two quantitative analytic methods, viz., Latent Semantic Analysis and data mining, can aid researchers in revealing core content topic areas in large (or small) data sets, and in visualizing how these concepts evolve, migrate, converge or diverge over time. We exemplify the complementary application of these techniques through an examination of a 25-year sample of abstracts from selected journals in Information Systems, Management, and Accounting disciplines. Through this work, we explore the capabilities of two computational techniques, and show how these techniques can be used to gather insights from a large corpus of unstructured text.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||||||||
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-87965 | ||||||||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1057/ejis.2011.37 | ||||||||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | European journal of information systems : EJIS ; an official journal of the Operational Research Society | ||||||||||||||||
Volume: | 21 | ||||||||||||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 49-69 | ||||||||||||||||
Date: | January 2012 | ||||||||||||||||
Publisher: | Taylor and Francis | ||||||||||||||||
Place of Publication: | London | ||||||||||||||||
ISSN: | 1476-9344 | ||||||||||||||||
Language: | English | ||||||||||||||||
Faculty: | Faculty of Management, Economy and Social Sciences | ||||||||||||||||
Divisions: | Weitere Institute, Arbeits- und Forschungsgruppen > Cologne Institute for Information Systems (CIIS) Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences > Business Administration > Information Systems > Chair for Information Systems and Systems Development |
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Subjects: | Data processing Computer science Management and auxiliary services |
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Refereed: | Yes | ||||||||||||||||
URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/8796 |
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