Combining IS Research Methods: Towards a Pluralist Methodology

By John C. Mingers. Information systems research, 2001

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Subfields: Management Information Systems, Management Science and Operations Research, Sociology and Political Science

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The Nature and Role of Feedback Text Comments in Online Marketplaces: Implications for Trust Building, Price Premiums, and Seller Differentiation (2006, result): “Having a combination of quantitative and qualitative data from various sources enhances the robustness of the study’s data and renders confidence in the study’s results (Mingers 2001).”
The Sociomaterialty of Information Systems: Current Status, Future Directions (2014, background): “The authors argue that such an approach is not simply mixed methods research (see Mingers 2001).”
Studying Knowledge Management in Information Systems Resarch: Discourses and Theoretical Assumptions (2002, background): “Much like Orlikowski and Baroudi (1991) and Mingers (2001), our intent is to guard against intellectual monism.”
Trust and the Unintended Effects of Behavior Control in Virtual Teams (2003, background): “The advantages of blending qualitative and quantitative analysis approaches are now widely recognized (Kaplan and Duchon 1988; Mingers 2001).”
An Exploratory Study into IT Governance Implementations and its Impact on Business/IT Alignment (2009, neutral): “This triangulation enables us to obtain a richer insight in reality, as also advocated by Mingers (2001 ): “… different research methods focus on different aspects of reality and therefore a richer understanding of a research topic will be gained by combining several methods together in a single pi”
Toward Agile: An Integrated Analysis of Quantitative and Qualitative Field Data (2010, background): “This integrated approach intends to formulate research questions and develop measurement instruments grounded in field data, provide both statistical evidence and rich explanations, triangulate results, and discover novel insights that stimulate further research (Kaplan and Duchon 1988; Lee 1991; Mi”
Rigor in information systems positivist case research: current practices, trends, and recommendations (2003, neutral): “In the specific context of this review, a multi-method approach to research involves several data collection techniques, such as interviews and documentation, organized to provide multiple but dissimilar data sets regarding the same phenomena (Gallivan 1997; Jick 1979; Mingers 2001).”
Debating big data: A literature review on realizing value from big data (2017, background): “In addition, we contend that empirically studying big data value realization calls for interdisciplinary research, and potentially, mixed methods (cf. Mingers, 2001).”
ICT4D research: reflections on history and future agenda (2017, background): “There has been much debate over the years in the IS field about methodological approaches, such as positivism and interpretivism, and whether they can be combined in multimethodological approaches (Mingers, 2001).”
Principles for Conducting Critical Realist Case Study Research in Information Systems (2012, background): “However, the ability to combine multiple methods can be problematic due to cultural, psychological feasibility, and practical reasons (Mingers 2001).”
Structural Equation Modeling in Information Systems Research Using Partial Least Squares (2010, background): “Although recent voices favor a differentiated perspective on this incommensurability thesis, researchers need to carefully analyze whether their multi-methods approach may lead to severe ontological or epistemological problems (Mingers 2001).”
Understanding the Role and Methods of Meta-Analysis in IS Research (2005, background): “In addition, some researchers may combine quantitative and qualitative research methods in their studies of the same phenomenon, called triangulation [Gable, 1994; Kaplan and Duchon, 1988; Lee, 1991; Mingers, 2001].”