TY - JOUR
T1 - Using embedded mixed methods in studying is phenomena
T2 - Risks and practical remedies with an illustration
AU - Yu, Xiaodan
AU - Khazanchi, Deepak
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was partially supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 71501044), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities in UIBE (Grant No: 16YQ07, CXTD6-03, 14QN03), and the Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 by the Association for Information Systems.
PY - 2017/8
Y1 - 2017/8
N2 - Drawing on lessons learned from a mixed-methods research project, we illustrate how mixed research approaches are fruitful in studying the complexities and interactions inherent in IS phenomena, which is particularly relevant when one investigates relatively new and “messy” phenomena in that many opportunities for errors and omissions can arise. Mixed-methods research designs can also prove to be valuable in exploratory or new areas of research and provide empirical evidence from multiple sources and types of data that one can truly triangulate. In this paper, we discuss the risks associated with using a specific mixed-methods research strategy (i.e., embedded mixed-methods design) and the practical remedies we used to address them. This discussion provides operational guidance to researchers interested in adopting mixed research designs to study emergent IS phenomena.
AB - Drawing on lessons learned from a mixed-methods research project, we illustrate how mixed research approaches are fruitful in studying the complexities and interactions inherent in IS phenomena, which is particularly relevant when one investigates relatively new and “messy” phenomena in that many opportunities for errors and omissions can arise. Mixed-methods research designs can also prove to be valuable in exploratory or new areas of research and provide empirical evidence from multiple sources and types of data that one can truly triangulate. In this paper, we discuss the risks associated with using a specific mixed-methods research strategy (i.e., embedded mixed-methods design) and the practical remedies we used to address them. This discussion provides operational guidance to researchers interested in adopting mixed research designs to study emergent IS phenomena.
KW - Embedded mixed research design
KW - IS research
KW - Mixed methods
KW - Shared mental models
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U2 - 10.17705/1cais.04102
DO - 10.17705/1cais.04102
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85031291453
VL - 41
SP - 18
EP - 42
JO - Communications of the Association for Information Systems
JF - Communications of the Association for Information Systems
SN - 1529-3181
M1 - 2
ER -