A study of application program development techniques
Communications of the ACM
Computing in the home: shifts in the time allocation patterns of households
Communications of the ACM
An empirical study of users as application developers
Information and Management - Annals of discrete mathematics, 24
End-user computing: the MIS managers' perspective
Information and Management
An empirical study of the impact of user involvement on system usage and information satisfaction
Communications of the ACM - The MIT Press scientific computation series
Summary of the second annual UCLA survey of business school computer usage
Communications of the ACM
1985 Opinion survey of MIS managers: Key issues
MIS Quarterly
Top management perspectives on decision support systems
Information and Management
Validating and applying user satisfaction as a measure of mis success in small organizations
Information and Management
Factors of success for end-user computing
Communications of the ACM
Fourth annual UCLA survey of business school computer usage
Communications of the ACM
Information and Management
Critical issues in information systems research
Critical issues in information systems research
An information systems keyword classification scheme
MIS Quarterly
The quality of user documentation: an instrument validation
Journal of Management Information Systems
“Combining qualitative and quantitative methods information systems research: a case study"
Management Information Systems Quarterly
An empirical study of the use of business expert systems
Information and Management
Fifth annual UCLA survey of business school computer usage
Communications of the ACM
CASE productivity perceptions of software engineering professionals
Communications of the ACM - Special issue: multiprocessing
Examining the duality role of I.S. executives: a study of I.S. issues
Information and Management
Key issues in telecommunications planning
Information and Management
The problem of statistical power in MIS research
MIS Quarterly
A discrepancy model of end-user computing involvement
Management Science
Mis research directions: a survey of researchers' views
ACM SIGMIS Database
Research methods in information systems
Research methods in information systems
The management of end user computing
Communications of the ACM
Factors influencing electronic data interchange success
ACM SIGMIS Database
Quality management in systems development: an organizational system perspective
MIS Quarterly - Special issue on Intensive research in information systems: using qualitative, interpretive, and case methods to study information technology—third installment
The Future of Empirical Methods in Software Engineering Research
FOSE '07 2007 Future of Software Engineering
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
A design to promote group learning in e-learning: Experiences from the field
Computers & Education
Critical issues in the management of information systems in Nigeria: an empirical study
International Journal of Business Information Systems
An Analysis of Diversity in Electronic Commerce Research
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
Information asymmetry and product valuation: an exploratory study
Journal of Information Science
Making better recommendations with online profiling agents
IAAI'04 Proceedings of the 16th conference on Innovative applications of artifical intelligence
eCommerce adoption in developing countries: a model and instrument
Information and Management
Factors affecting shapers of organizational wikis
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Structure of service level agreements (SLA) in IT outsourcing: The construct and its measurement
Information Systems Frontiers
A socio-technical approach to improving the systems development process
Information Systems Frontiers
Empirical Software Engineering
Opportunities and risks of software-as-a-service: Findings from a survey of IT executives
Decision Support Systems
Journal of Management Information Systems
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
Information technology adoption behavior life cycle: Toward a Technology Continuance Theory (TCT)
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
An Investigation of Telecommunications as a Plan Location Decision Criterion
Information Resources Management Journal
Information Resources Management Journal
A Brazilian survey on UML and model-driven practices for embedded software development
Journal of Systems and Software
International Journal of Information Systems and Social Change
Investigating the success of operational business process management systems
Information Technology and Management
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Survey research is believed to be well understood and applied by management information systems (MIS) scholars. It has been applied for several years and it has precise procedures which, when followed closely, yield valid and easily interpretable data. Our assessment of the use of survey research in the MIS field between 1980 and 1990 indicates that this perception is at odds with reality. Our analysis indicates that survey methodology is often misapplied and is plagued by five important weaknesses: (1) single-method designs where multiple methods are needed, (2) unsystematic and often inadequate sampling procedures, (3) low response rates, (4) weak linkages between units of analysis and respondents, and (5) overreliance on cross-sectional surveys where longitudinal surveys are really needed. Our assessment also shows that the quality of survey research varies considerably among studies of different purposes: explanatory studies are of good quality overall, exploratory and descriptive studies are of moderate to poor quality. This article presents a general framework for classifying and examining survey research and uses this framework to analyze the usage of survey research conducted in the past decade in the MIS field. In an effort to improve the quality of survey research, this article makes specific recommenoations that directly address the major problems highlighted in the review.