3 The Design Science Research Paradigm: An Instantiation of Website Benchmarking

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures and Tables vii
4. Contributors ix
5. 1 Embarking on the Paradigm Journey 1
6. 2 Logical Positivism in Consumer Behaviour Research 12
7. 3 The Design Science Research Paradigm: An Instantiation of Website Benchmarking 25
8. 4 An Application of Quasi-Experiments to Study Humour in Tourism Settings Guided by Post-Positivism 38
9. 5 Knowledge Co-Production in Tourism and the Process of Knowledge Develop ment: Participatory Action Research 50
10. 6 The Constructivist Paradigm and Phenomenological Qualitative Research Design 64
11. 7 Applying the Interpretive Social Science Paradigm to Research on Tourism Education and Training 84
12. 8 An Autoethnographic Chronicle on the Ethnographic Exploration of the Nature of Hotel Work and Hospitality in Far North Queensland 97
13. 9 Neo-Tribalism through an Ethnographic Lens: A Critical Theory Approach 112
14. 10 Navigating the Complex Variety of Feminisms 130
15. 11 The Pragmatic Paradigm in Destination Competitive ness Studies: The Case of the SCUBA Diving Tourism Niche 142
16. 12 Pragmatism in the Context of Urban Design and Tourism: A Multidisciplinary Study 158
17. 13 In Search of an Intermediate Paradigmatic Ground: Critical Realism-Post-Positivism in Understanding Tourists’ Motivation and Experiences in Asian Spas 171
18. 14 Paradigms: A Supervisor’s Perspective and Advice 189
19. 15 Into the Future: Moving Forward with Refl ective Practice on Paradigms 203
20. Index 213