Table 3.

Methodology adopted among leagile healthcare research

Methodology	Nr. Of articles	Reference
1. Quantitative	2
1) Mono-method quantitative	1	Saghafian et al. (2012) [22]
2) Multi-method quantitative	1	Pérez et al. (2015) [21]
2. Qualitative	19
1) Mono-method qualitative	11	Al Fannah et al. (2022); Aronsson et al. (2011); Dixit et al. (2019); Guimarães & de Carvalho (2013); Kuupiel et al. (2017); Rahimnia & Moghadasian (2010); Sara et al. (2015); Toussaint et al. (2004); Towill & Christopher (2005); Vries et al. (1999); Wikner et al. (2017) [1, 7, 27, 29, 33, 34, 40–43, 46]
2) Multi-method qualitative	7	Guimarães & de Carvalho (2012); Guven et al. (2014); Mishra et al. (2019); Nabelsi & Gagnon (2017); Ni et al. (2020); Olsson & Aronsson (2015); Pohjosenperä et al. (2019) [20, 26, 28, 32, 35, 36, 44]
3. Mixed method	4
1) Mixed method simple	1	Claudio et al. (2021) [45]
2) Mixed method complex	3	Sen et al. (2021); Yadav & Kumar (2022); Saraji et al. (2023) [30, 31, 47]