This course has predominantly focused on qualitative methods. Other courses in your DBA program, like BADM-707 (Data Analytics), focus on quantitative methods. These two methodological approaches are often presented as dichotomous, all-or-nothing choices. You must either use a quantitative or a qualitative approach. You are either a quantitative or qualitative researcher. Fortunately, this is not the case! Your choices aren’t quite so limited. With this assignment, we will consider complementary research approaches, what are sometimes called Mixed Methods.
Upon successful completion of this discussion, you will be able to:
Analyze a given problem scenario to determine an appropriate, aligned research approach.
Understand how methodological approaches can be mixed to be complimentary.
Background Information
In your course textbook, the authors state,
There are creators of knowledge who perform investigations by keeping, more or less strictly, inner-paradigmatically, to one of the methodological approaches. It is also common in practice, however, to approach what we refer to as ‘a view as transformative operator in a methodology or complementarity.’ (Arbnor