This edited three volume edition brings together significant papers previously published in the Journal of information Technology (JIT) over its 30 year publication history. The three volumes of Enacting Research Methods in Information Systems celebrate the methodological pluralism used to advance our understanding of information technology's role in the world today. In addition to quantitative methods from the positivist tradition, JIT also values methodological articles from critical research perspectives, interpretive traditions, historical perspectives, grounded theory, and action research and design science approaches.

Volume 1 covers Critical Research, Grounded Theory, and Historical Approaches. Volume 2 deals with Interpretive Approaches and also explores Action Research. Volume 3 focuses on Design Science Approaches and discusses Alternative Approaches including Semiotics Research, Complexity Theory and Gender in IS Research.

The Journal ofInformation Technology (JIT) was started in 1986 by Professors Frank Land and Igor Aleksander with the aim of bringing technology and management together and bridging the ‘great divide’ between the two disciplines. The Journal was created with the vision of making the impact of complex interactions and developments in technology more accessible to a wider audience. Retaining this initial focus, the JIT has gone on to extend into new and innovative areas of research such as the launch of JITTC in 2010. A high impact journal, JIT shall continue to publish leading trends based on significant research in the field.

Introduction –Leslie Willcocks, Chris Sauer and Mary Lacity.- PART I. CRITICAL RESEARCH.- Chapter 1: Doolin, B. (1998), “Information technology as disciplinary technology: being critical in interpretive research on information systems,” JIT, Vol. 13, pp. 301-311.- Chapter 2: Brooke, C. (2002), “What does it mean to be ‘critical’ in IS research?” JIT, Vol. 17, pp. 49-57.- Chapter 3: Brook, C. (2002), “Critical perspectives on information systems; an impression of the research landscape,” JIT, Vol. 17, pp. 271-283.- Chapter 4: Doolin, B. and Lowe, A. (2002), “To reveal is to critique: actor-network theory and critical information systems research,” JIT, Vol. 17, 69-78-. Chapter 5: Cecez-Kecmanovic, D., Janson, M., and Brown, A. (2002), “The rationality framework for a critical study of information systems, JIT, Vol. 17, pp. 215-227.- PART II. GROUNDED THEORY APPROACHES.- Chapter 6: Urquhart, C. and Fernandez, W. (2013), “Using grounded theory method in information systems: the researcher as blank slate and other myths,” JIT, Vol. 28, pp. 224–236.- Chapter 7: Seidel, S., and Urquhart, C. (2013), “On emergence and forcing in information systems grounded theory studies: the case of Strauss and Corbin,” JIT, Vol. 28, pp. 237-260.- PART III. HISTORICAL APPROACHES.- Chapter 8: Land, F. (2010), “The use of history in IS research: an opportunity missed?” JIT, Vol. 25, pp. 385-394.- Chapter 9: Mitev, N., de Vaujany, F.X. (2012), “Seizing the opportunity: towards a historiography of information systems,” JIT, Vol. 27, pp. 110-124-. Chapter 10: Bonner, W. (2013), “History and IS – Broadening our view and understanding: Actor–Network Theory as a methodology,” JIT, Vol. 28, pp. 111–123.