Ontological Problems of Pluralist Research Methodologies
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This paper explores relationships between interpretivist and positivist information systems research. The philosophical bases of these research methodologies are used to evaluate suggested pluralistic research designs. Three calls for methodological pluralism are shown to be unsoundly based as they appear not to have considered the implications of adopting the basic assumptions upon which their epistemologies rest. Interpretivist and positivist research designs are complementary in that, together, they allow researchers to learn more of a phenomenon than is possible by adopting a singular view of the world.
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