Bridging the qualitative-quantitative divide: guidelines for conducting mixed methods research in information systems
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...Further, MIS Quarterly Vol. 37 No. 1/March 2013 45 given that the purpose of the qualitative analysis was to validate the findings from the quantitative analysis, if quantitative and qualitative data were collected sequentially, it would have been difficult to achieve this objective because users’ perceptions of IS might change by the time qualitative data would have been collected....
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...Some researchers, primarily from the positi- MIS Quarterly Vol. 37 No. 1/March 2013 33 vist paradigm, have suggested that the same set of criteria used in quantitative studies can be applied to qualitative studies, while other researchers, primarily interpretivist or constructivist, have suggested a different set of evaluation criteria....
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...In other words, inference quality has to be assessed on the overall findings from 40 MIS Quarterly Vol. 37 No. 1/March 2013 mixed methods research (i.e., meta-inferences)....
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...Building on the suggestions of scholars who advanced our knowledge of research methodologies (Cook and Campbell 1979; Lincoln and Guba 2000; Maxwell 1992; Nunnaly and Bernstein 1994; Patton 2002), 7We did not include unpublished work, such as working papers or doctoral dissertations....
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...24 MIS Quarterly Vol. 37 No. 1/March 2013 Second, mixed methods research has the ability to provide stronger inferences than a single method or worldview (Teddlie and Tashakkori 2003, 2009)....
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...…in which a mixed methods approach is potentially superior to a single method design, there has been intense debate regarding whether or not it is even appropriate to combine multiple methods that are often based on radically different paradigmatic assumptions (Denzin and Lincoln 1994; Guba 1987)....
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...In other words, inference quality has to be assessed on the overall findings from 40 MIS Quarterly Vol. 37 No. 1/March 2013 mixed methods research (i.e., meta-inferences)....
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...Lincoln and Guba (1985) suggested a process called inquiry audit to measure consistency and dependability of qualitative data....
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...This discussion will help editors, reviewers, and readers understand whether metainferences are consistent with the research objectives and make substantive theoretical contributions....
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...Others have suggested that although validation is important for qualitative research, it should be called something other than reliability and validity to distinguish it from what is done in quantitative research (Lincoln and Guba 1985; Patton 2002)....
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...In qualitative research, consistency and dependability of data and analysis are two terms that are conceptually similar to reliability in quantitative research (Lincoln and Guba 1985)....
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