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This chapter addresses longitudinal research designs’ peculiarities, characteristics, and significant fallacies. Longitudinal studies represent an examination of correlated phenomena over a period, and their analysis stresses changes over time. A longitudinal research design aims to enable or improve the validity of inferences not possible to achieve in cross-sectional research, to draw conclusions based on arguments that are not workable if we look at a point in time. Also, researchers find relevant information on how to write a longitudinal research design paper and learn about typical methodologies used for this research design. The chapter closes by referring to overlap** and adjacent research designs.
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Hunziker, S., Blankenagel, M. (2024). Longitudinal Research Design. In: Research Design in Business and Management. Springer Gabler, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-42739-9_11
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