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jais-methods
Use when choosing and defending the research design for a Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS) manuscript — a behavioral survey/experiment, an economics-of-IS identification strategy, a design-science build-and-evaluate cycle, a qualitative/interpretive study, or a review method. Matches method to the IS claim under JAIS's methodological pluralism; it designs the study and hands estimation/evaluation to jais-data-analysis.
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# Research Design & Methods (jais-methods)
## When to trigger
- You have a theory or design propositions but no defensible way to test or evaluate them
- The method may not match the claim (e.g., a causal claim resting on a cross-sectional correlation)
- A reviewer asks "how do you know the artifact works?" or "what identifies this effect?"
- You chose a method by habit/fashion rather than because the phenomenon demands it
- You are designing a Literature Review and need a transparent, reproducible review protocol
## Pluralism is the point — but each method has its own bar
JAIS is explicitly "inclusive in… method and philosophical and research approach," so there is no mandated design. That freedom comes with a duty: **justify the method by the phenomenon and the claim**, and meet the rigor norms of that method's tradition. JAIS reviewers span paradigms, so a method chosen for convenience rather than fit is a recurring rejection. Pick the row your claim requires.
