Research design

Abstract

Socio-economic systems are dynamically complex, influenced by multiple agents, and characterized by accumulations, time delays, and nonlinearities. To best account for these characteristics on a detailed level, I use an overall case-study strategy and operationalize it with several methods combined into a multimethodology (Fig. 3.1). The case-study setting is specified in Sect. 4.3. The study can be positioned more towards the objective approach to social science.