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Mixed Method for New Scholars with Intrusive, Emerging and Complex Socio-Technical Topics

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Knowledge Management in Organizations (KMO 2014)

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The literature on security research, such as information security and supply chain security, informs that it is highly intrusive in nature. This creates hindrances to researchers on developing or testing theories in these fields due to difficulties in reaching or recruiting relevant participants for the sample data. This paper proposes mixed method as a research paradigm well suited for such intrusive studies when the researcher is a “newbie”. The proposal is supported by empirical evidence obtained during the data collection of an ongoing research on information security compliance behaviour in supply chain security.

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  1. Business Information Systems, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand

    Ibrahim Shafiu, William Yu Chung Wang & Harminder Singh

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  1. Staffordshire University, Staffordshire, United Kingdom

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  2. Universidad Santa Maria, Santiago, Chile

    Darcy Fuenzaliza Oshee

  3. National University of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan

    I-Hsien Ting

  4. Universidad Santa Maria, Santiago, Chile

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Shafiu, I., Wang, W.Y.C., Singh, H. (2014). Mixed Method for New Scholars with Intrusive, Emerging and Complex Socio-Technical Topics. In: Uden, L., Fuenzaliza Oshee, D., Ting, IH., Liberona, D. (eds) Knowledge Management in Organizations. KMO 2014. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 185. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08618-7_25

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