Laboratory Experiments

Sometimes students are used as surrogates for managers and executives in laboratory settings, but this is not often considered convincing. Laboratory experiments are used far more frequently in the USA than in other parts of the world (Tung and Heminger,1993).

A recent example of a dissertation based on this approach was one in which the researcher used a group decision support system to examine how decision making differed depending upon a variety of different variables, including the number of decision makers participating in the meeting.

This experiment provided an insight into how different types of questions are best handled under different circumstances. Laboratory experiments use quantitative techniques of evidence analysis to deliver answers to highly structures research questions. (Dan Remenyi et al.)