No . 613 ~ 2 Breaking Up the Mono - Method Monopolies in Organizational Research

Recent discussions of methodolo~y have been dominated by t~o ar~uments~ that one methodoloqy is qenera].iy better than another or that one methodolc:’cjy is better than another for the purpose of addre~si n~ a particular theoreti cal I ssue~ Qualitative and quanti tat:ive varsi one of both these arc~uments are anal v~ec! and ref uted~ Both arc~uments are sho~n to create b]. indspots in orciani zati onal thec:ry~ The di +41 cul ti e~ of usi nq multi —method ci ternati ves~ such as tn an~u1ati on and the cr-eat i on of hbnid methodoloqies. are ackno~.ledqed, and some sol utiona are propc:sed inciudinci a methodoloqical existentialism.