You want to make the best strategic business decisions you can. Targeted research helps provide the right data to do that. There are two ways to approach business research: the quantitative approach ...

While personal preference may lean towards one method, a successful research strategy requires a combination of qualitative and quantitative approaches. The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, ...

Key points Neither a quantitative nor a qualitative methodology is the right way to approach every scientific question. Rather, the nature of the question determines which methodology is best suited ...

Methodology matters, and there’s not much to get folks in the research field as riled up as questions about whether some methods are better than others. That certainly was the case last fall, after ...

The accelerating pace of disruption to business models means brands must be agile enough to make informed decisions within days—or even hours. They can thrive or fail based on their ability to make ...

A difficult undertaking is to isolate the exact makeup of accounting research. The methods, goals and focus of accounting research tends to shift over time. Historically, a large part of defining a ...

In previous columns, we have discussed using qualitative data for prospecting and profiling your station. Is there a right approach to using qualitative data? When should you use quantitative data ...

As a researcher who has used a wide variety of methodologies, I understand the importance of acknowledging that we, as researchers, do not pick the methodology; rather, the research question dictates ...