Integrative Review of Integral, Mixed and Creative Methods Research Approaches to Currency Innovation and its Impact - Through 102 Articles Published in the International Journal of Community Currency Research from 1997 to 2013 as a Preliminary Study

Abstract

I was surprised to discover that not one-eighth (12.7%) as previously found in 2013 but five-seventh (69.6%) of its articles were actually dealing with currency impact assessment—of which one-third (33.8%) were a positive impact and seven-eighth (88.7%) were aiming at sustainable evelopment objectives. Moreover, all 102 articles investigated currencies involving 2.55 of the 5 pillars of sustainable development and targeting 4.66 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals—confirming what was already suspected about them. Finally, one-nineth (11.8%) used at least one of these eta-theoretical paradigms; one-third (34.3%) used a ‘mixed methods’ research; one-half (47.1%) used some ‘creative research’ methods excluding ‘mixed methods’ research; and three-fifth (60.8%) used more than one methodological family—for an average of 1.78 of these 8 methodological families for all 102 articles. Knowing that authors came from some 16 different disciplines.