Source: Attri, Rajesh, Nikhil Dev, and Vivek Sharma. « Interpretive structural modelling (ISM) approach: an overview. » Research Journal of Management Sciences2.2 (2013): 3-8.
We all know classical methods of academic research, qualitative techniques, quantitative approaches with the natural toolbox of regression analysis, Analysis of variance (just a kind of regression flipped over, where the DV aims to compare means according to some categorical IV’s through the F ratio), Structural equations modeling (path analysis, etc). But what is Interpretive Structural modeling about?
It’s mainly a qualitative method aimed at building complex and integrative models composed from different factors, it’s a process made of several iterations looking for a stable, intelligible and graphical conceptualization.
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