Research Note

Why Workplace Strategy Requires Both Qualitative and Quantitative Evidence

Audience

Strategists, researchers, clients

Core question

Why can neither evidence tradition carry the strategy alone?

Thesis

Quantitative streams find patterns and cannot explain them; qualitative methods explain and cannot scale. The methodology's architecture — instruments paired with interviews, data paired with interpretation — is this epistemic necessity made operational.

Suggested structure
  1. What each tradition sees and misses
  2. The explanation gap in pure analytics
  3. The generalisation gap in pure ethnography
  4. Paired methods through the six phases
Research sources
  • Mixed methods research literature
Workplaced relation

None

Related methods
Full article body — in development.