ABSTRACT
This chapter examines a commonly overlooked point, which is what makes interpretive research interpretive. Placing the interpretation of meaning front and center, this chapter calls upon aspects of phenomenology, hermeneutics, ethnography, and hypothetico-deductive logic to problematize meaning, to interpret meaning, and to assess the validity of interpreted meaning. Key ideas are applied and illustrated with a reconstructed example (Sarker and Lee, 2006) of a walk-through of the interpretation of the meaning of technological tools used for business process change in two organizations.
