Multimethods and Mixed Methods Research

What is it about?

It is the contention of this paper that in order to make the most effective contribution to leadership in this century of complexity, unprecedented interconnectivity, interdependence, radical innovation and transformation, and unforeseen new structures with unexpected new properties, it is important to go beyond using a single method to generally using multiple methods and combining several methodologies, in whole or in part, and possibly from different paradigms, and different disciplines. This is the underlying thesis of this paper based both on theoretical/philosophical grounds and on the practical grounds that practitioners are increasingly doing this already.

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Why is it important?

Mixed methods and multimethods are two different research approaches but quite often some academics have used the other as the research approach and referred to the research erroneously as the other. In the literature, it is common to find the terms ‘mixed methods’ and ‘multimethods’ used interchangeably. However, it is important to distinguish these terms.

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