Design Methods and Practices for Research of Project Management, 2nd Edition

6MIXED METHODS FOR STRATEGISING IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT RESEARCH

Karyne Ang

DOI: 10.4324/9781003469513-8

Introduction

There is no one-size-fits-all approach to designing one's research methodology(s). In contemporary project management research settings, the decisions as to which research strategy to adopt would depend significantly upon the purpose of the research, its scale, and scope. It is now increasingly common for project management researchers to embrace a plurality of perspectives by combining different methods and inquiry strategies for an in-depth investigation and provide broader perspectives of the research phenomenon being studied (Cameron, 2016; Cameron et al., 2015; Müller et al., 2013). Moreover, convergent and divergent results ...