Integrating multiple qualitative research methods (or avoiding the precariousness of a one‐legged stool)

The Meaning of Patient Participation for Patients and Nurses at a Nurse-Led Clinic for Chronic Heart Failure

“…We found the data collected to be adequate, with respect to the possibilities to perform the thorough analysis that is required by the hermeneutic tradition, as well as to be sufficient to formulate well-founded themes and main themes from the interpretation of the texts from observations and interviews with patients and nurses. In addition, we aimed at strengthening the validity of the data by triangulation, and the data were thus not only analyzed separately but in triangulation, where interviews and observations have been described as complementary sources for exploring words and deeds [40]. With these methods we found that we had a purposeful amount of data to fulfill our aim for this study.…”

Motivations, Capability Handicaps, and Firm Responses in the Early Phase of Internationalization: A Study in the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry

“…We have used the descriptive multiple case study approach to research as advocated by Hall and Rist (1999) and Remenyi and Williams (1998). The multiple case study approach shows numerous sources of evidence through replication rather than sampling logic.…”

Domestic firms competing with multinational enterprises: The relevance of resource-accessing alliance formations

“…This mode was chosen for its credibility and wide usage especially in the IB field (Marschan-Piekkari, Welch, Penttinen, & Tahvanainen, 2004;Yeung, 1995), for the empathy with respondents, the possibility for clarifying ambiguity and probing further research (Hall & Rist, 1999). Interviews started with unstructured questions allowing respondents to freely express their knowledge and experience regarding the topic of investigation and were susceptible to changes that allowed expansion and better illustration of responses.…”