Postmodernism, Interpretivism, and Formal Ontologies

dc.contributor.author	Kroeze, Jan H
dc.date.accessioned	2012-04-10T14:27:50Z
dc.date.available	2012-04-10T14:27:50Z
dc.date.issued	2012
dc.identifier.citation	RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES, INNOVATIONS AND PHILOSOPHIES IN SOFTWARE SYSTEMS ENGINEERING AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS, Chapter 3, p. 43, M. Mora, O. Gelman, A. Steenkamp and M.S. Raisinghani, eds., IGI Global	en
dc.identifier.isbn	978-1-4666-0179-6
dc.identifier.isbn	978-1-4666-0180-2
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10500/5629
dc.description.abstract	This chapter investigates the relationship between postmodernism, interpretivism, and formal ontologies, which are widely used in Information Systems (IS). Interpretivism has many postmodernist traits. It acknowledges that the world is diverse and that knowledge is contextual, ever-changing, and emergent. The acceptance of the idea of more than one reality and multiple understandings is part and parcel of postmodernism. Interpretivism is, therefore, characterized as a postmodern research philosophy. To demonstrate this philosophical premise more concretely, the creation of the logical structure of formal ontologies is sketched as an example of typical interpretivist and postmodernist activity in IS.	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	IGI Global	en
dc.subject	Postmodernism	en
dc.subject	Interpretivism	en
dc.subject	Formal Ontologies	en
dc.subject	Information Systems	en
dc.title	Postmodernism, Interpretivism, and Formal Ontologies	en
dc.type	Book chapter	en