Title: Department of Computer Science Seminar
Date: Wednesday, March 8, 2000
Time: 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Venue: Room N101, CSIT Building [108]
Speaker: Dr Roger Clarke  (Visiting Fellow in DCS at ANU)
Description: "Research Methods in Electronic Commerce"


Abstract:

The research domain of electronic commerce is particularly
challenging, because of the lack of established definitions, 
and the high volatility of the phenomena. 
The urgent need for quality information presents 
a classic case of the need for instrumentalist research, 
which pursues outcomes of relevance to practitioners 
of the discipline, subject to the constraint of 
achieving sufficient rigour.
 
This seminar provides background in multiple research traditions, 
with particular attention paid to conventional scientific approaches. 
It outlines particular research techniques, considers factors 
that determine the quality of research, and culminates 
in s index.shtmluggestions of appropriate (and inappropriate) techniques 
for particular kinds of EC research.
 
This presentation draws on a paper developed cumulatively 
over the last decade, and intended for submission 
in due course to the Int'l J. of Electronic Commerce.

The paper is at:
http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/EC/ResMeth.html

The seminar series is at:
http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/EC/ANUSems.html#Sem9

Biography: Roger Clarke is a Visiting Fellow in the Department of
Computer Science. From 1984-95, he was Reader in Information Systems 
in the Department of Commerce. He then returned to full-time
consultancy in I.T. management, with particular emphasis 
on electronic commerce, information infrastructure 
and dataveillance and privacy. 

 

URL: http://cs.anu.edu.au/lib/seminars/seminars00/dept20000308