Purpose

This paper presents a review of research methodologies used in addressing problems in the financial management of property and construction journals from 2005 to 2020.

Design/methodology/approach

Content analysis of 258 research papers published in the Journal of Financial Management of Property and Construction was carried out, enabling the exploration of research approaches, epistemology, strategies, data collection and data analysis methods used in addressing problems researched in the area of financial management of property and construction

Findings

The findings show that quantitative approaches and methods dominate, whereas qualitative and mixed methods were prominent in-depth understanding of a topics were needed. Interestingly, almost a third of the publications did not adopt quantitative approaches. In some journal issues, there was relatively high use of qualitative and multi-method approaches and up to 12% of the articles published over the past 16 years could be described as based on pragmatism.

Research limitations/implications

An important implication of this paper is that a conventionally number-based area of research does not preclude the use of qualitative and mixed approaches. The findings are only generalisable to the Journal of Financial Management of Property and Construction.

Practical implications

Financial management researchers could benefit greatly by considering pluralistic approaches more in the design of their studies.

Originality/value

To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study is an original synthesis of the articles published between 2005 and 2020. It provides new insight into the use of research methodologies by authors and how they have been combined to address their research problems. It further investigates an old issue or question about methodological choice-making using new evidence and original empirical work.

中文翻译：

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《物业与建筑财务管理学报》方法论多元化回顾（2005-2020）

目的

本文回顾了 2005 年至 2020 年用于解决财产和建筑期刊财务管理问题的研究方法。

设计/方法/方法

对发表在《财产与建筑财务管理杂志》上的 258 篇研究论文进行内容分析，探索研究方法、认识论、策略、数据收集和数据分析方法，用于解决在财务管理领域研究的问题。财产和建筑

发现

研究结果表明，定量方法和方法占主导地位，而定性和混合方法是突出的，需要对主题进行深入了解。有趣的是，几乎三分之一的出版物没有采用定量方法。在一些期刊问题中，定性和多方法方法的使用率相对较高，过去 16 年发表的文章中有多达 12% 可以被描述为基于实用主义。

研究限制/影响

本文的一个重要含义是，传统的基于数字的研究领域并不排除使用定性和混合方法。调查结果只能推广到《财产和建筑财务管理杂志》。

实际影响

财务管理研究人员可以通过在研究设计中更多地考虑多元化方法而受益匪浅。

原创性/价值

据作者所知，这项研究是对 2005 年至 2020 年间发表的文章的原始综合。它为作者使用研究方法以及如何将它们结合起来解决他们的研究问题提供了新的见解。它使用新证据和原始经验工作进一步调查有关方法选择的旧问题或问题。