April 2019
Intermediate to advanced
728 pages
28h 12m
English
(Mingers 2014, p. 184 et seq)
Put as simply as possible, the idea of multimethodology (MM) is to use a combination of methodologies (possibly from different paradigms) and methods together in a single intervention. During the 1980s, as was noted in the previous chapter, interest in pluralism and MM escalated in a number of academic areas – for example, in organization theory (Reed 1985), systems thinking (Jackson and Keys 1984; Jackson 1987a), and information systems (IS) (Hirschheim 1985; Lyytinen and Klein 1985; Wood‐Harper et al. 1985; Avison and Wood‐Harper 1990; Walsham 1991; Walsham and Han 1991). Practitioners were also increasingly combining different methods in their work. ...