• Jul2022 06 09:00 - 11:00

    Distinguished speaker series | Understanding the diversity of qualitative research

    Online

Graduate School invites a certain number of outstanding professors from universities worldwide to give informative lectures and workshops on academic research and career planning. This series aims to provide our PhD students the access to scholars with a high degree of expertise, as well as the opportunity to better understand research methods and achieve productive outcomes.

Workshop Information

Unlike quantitative research, qualitative research is highly diversified in ontological, epistemological, and methodological terms. Not only are there differences among hermeneutic, interpretive, ethnographic, exploratory, positivist and grounded theory case studies, but also diverse interpretations and implementations of the same data collection and analytical guidelines. Understanding the diversity will help us become a more competent researcher keeping a study methodologically consistent and a more competent reviewer avoiding making wrong judgement. Understanding the diversity will also help us better target journals for submission, identify suitable senior editors and associate editors, and respond to reviewers effectively to increase the chance of acceptance. To this end, this workshop seeks to help the students understand and appreciate the diversity of qualitative IS research.

Speaker Bio

Gongtai Wang is an Assistant Professor in Digital Technology at Smith School of Business, Queen's University, Canada. Before, he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Business Information Systems Discipline at UQ Business School, University of Queensland, Australia. He got his PhD degree in Information Systems and Management from Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, United Kingdom. He is an academic member of the Association for Information Systems, Product Development and Management Association, and the Academy of Management.

Gongtai teaches and researches on topics related to digital innovation, specifically with a focus on how to fundamentally rethink and strategically redesign traditional products/services and business models with emerging digital technologies such as the Internet of everything, mixed reality, artificial intelligence, and blockchain. His research has been published in MIS Quarterly (FMS-A) and Journal of Product Innovation Management(FMS-A) and honored with awards at flagship information systems conferences. Prior to his academic career, he worked as a system engineer in the information technology industry.