Towards a flexible online mixed method design with a feedback loop

Quality and Quantity

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 585-597

  Lobe, Bojana ^a   Vehovar, Vasja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Information communication technologies; Mixed method design; Online interviews; Qualitative methods; Quantitative methods; Web surveys

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650617579     PISSN: 00335177     EISSN: 15737845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11135-007-9146-7     Document Type: Article

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