Combining IS Research Methods: Variety Is (Not) the Spice of Life

This research in progress paper reports the results of a survey of the main IS journals to discover the extent of research that uses multiple methods. The preliminary results show that such multimethod research is rare, and where it does occur generally consists only of a survey combined with interviews/case studies. A more detailed discussion of the methodology and results will be available at the conference.

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