Strategy |
Form of research question |
Requires control over behavioural events |
Focuses on contemporary events |
Experiment |
How, Why |
Yes |
Yes |
Survey |
Who, What, Where, How many, How much |
No |
Yes |
Archival analysis |
Who, What, Where, How many, How much |
No |
Yes/No |
History |
How, Why |
No |
No |
Case study |
How, Why |
No |
Yes |
Source: (Yin, 1995)