Bridging the qualitative-quantitative divide: Guidelines for conducting mixed methods research in information systems

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 21-54

  Venkatesh, Viswanath ^a   Brown, Susan A ^b   Bala, Hillol ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Meta inferences; Mixed methods; Multimethod; Positivist; Qualitative; Quantitative; Research design; Research method; Validity

Indexed keywords

MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

META-INFERENCES; MIXED METHOD; MULTI METHODS; POSITIVIST; QUALITATIVE; QUANTITATIVE; RESEARCH DESIGNS; RESEARCH METHODS; VALIDITY;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84873945218     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: 21629730     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.25300/MISQ/2013/37.1.02     Document Type: Article

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