Abstract
The most relevant of the presuppositions that determine one's research perspective is that methodological issues must always be answered within the context of a particular research setting. That is to say, methodologies are neither appropriate nor inappropriate until they are applied to a specific research problem. This perspective treats methodologies as tools of inquiry; each inquiry requires careful selection of the proper tools. Having the wrong tool for the task may be no better than having no tools at all, a notion best summarized by Kaplan's (1964: 214) warning: Too often, we ask how to measure something without raising the question of what we would do with the measurement if we had it. Thus, both qualitative data and quantitative data have their place in organizational research. The pertinent questions concern the where's and when's within a specific research context.
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