TY - JOUR
T1 - Mixed Methods in Emerging Academic Subdisciplines
T2 - The Case of Sport Management
AU - van der Roest, Jan Willem
AU - Spaaij, Ramón
AU - van Bottenburg, Maarten
PY - 2015/1/1
Y1 - 2015/1/1
N2 - This article examines the prevalence and characteristics of mixed methods research in the relatively new subdiscipline of sport management. A mixed methods study is undertaken to evaluate the epistemological/philosophical, methodological, and technical levels of mixed methods design in sport management research. The results indicate that mixed methods research is still rarely used, poorly legitimized and often weakly designed in this field. Our conclusions lead to the hypotheses that the more central a research field is, the higher the prevalence of mixed methods, and that mixed methods only slowly trickle down from central to more peripheral subdisciplines. Implications of the research findings for both mixed methods scholars and sport management researchers are discussed, and directions for future research are proposed.
AB - This article examines the prevalence and characteristics of mixed methods research in the relatively new subdiscipline of sport management. A mixed methods study is undertaken to evaluate the epistemological/philosophical, methodological, and technical levels of mixed methods design in sport management research. The results indicate that mixed methods research is still rarely used, poorly legitimized and often weakly designed in this field. Our conclusions lead to the hypotheses that the more central a research field is, the higher the prevalence of mixed methods, and that mixed methods only slowly trickle down from central to more peripheral subdisciplines. Implications of the research findings for both mixed methods scholars and sport management researchers are discussed, and directions for future research are proposed.
KW - design
KW - mixed methods research
KW - paradigms
KW - prevalence rates
KW - sport management
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84915781868&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1558689813508225
DO - 10.1177/1558689813508225
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84915781868
SN - 1558-6898
VL - 9
SP - 70
EP - 90
JO - Journal of Mixed Methods Research
JF - Journal of Mixed Methods Research
IS - 1
ER -