Complementary research methods: An introduction and overview

Abstract

This chapter serves as an introduction to the edited volume and has three broad purposes. First, the chapter defines complementary research methods as the application of multiple methodologies and methods to the study of related policy and leadership issues. Second, the chapter relates leadership and policy research using the concept of a policy research continuum. This continuum situates leadership and policy researchers as being part of the same research community. Finally, the chapter supports novice scholars, specifically, by describing the ways in which readers might use the volume, and it provides some reflective questions that illuminate the epistemological, methodological, and conceptual ideas undergirding the volume’s contents.