Different methodologies express different rationalities stemming from alternative theoretical positions which they reflect. These alternative positions must be respected, and methodologies and their appropriate theoretical underpinnings developed in partnership.

— Mike Jackson, Creative Problem Solving: Total Systems Intervention (1991)

Source: http://www.bcs.org/upload/pdf/steve-clarke-paper.pdf

As cited in Steve Clarke's 2001 paper on mixing methods for organisational intervention.

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