5. Research Methodology 5.1. Empirical Study The method chosen for the purpose of this research is an
empirical research through the distribution of a questionnaire.
This approach was chosen because it assists the investigation
of a phenomenon by the views of its own interested parties
(Muijs, 2010). In our case the interested parties are the
enterprises which have been established in Greece after 2009.
This method assists to explore the opinions, attitudes and
behavior of subjects in research (Clark - Carter, 2004),
enables statistical processing of data in order to quantify the
respondents' views on the issue under consideration (Gray,
2014, Dawson, 2009). and needs less time than conducting
qualitative research, while providing a greater level of
impartiality and objectivity of the researcher in relation to the
qualitative research, which is characterized by a high level of
bias (Johnson and Christensen, 2008).
5.2. The Questionnaire For the purpose of this study, as a research tool was used a
questionnaire. The questionnaire is a tool that facilitates the
objectivity of the research as it can assess the answers of the
participants (Oppenheim, 1992). This methodological tool
was chosen because it has the following advantages (Wilson
and McLean, 1994): a) it is easy to be distributed to a large
number of participants at the same time and in different
geographical areas. In addition, the questionnaire allows the
statistical analysis of the responses of participants and
therefore the quantification of their views This is achieved
through the use of open-close questions. Structured, and,
open-close questions are useful as they can produce
responses that can be handled and can be analyzed through
statistical analysis (Oppenheim, 1992). Therefore, the above
type of questions were used because they can more easily
consolidate, undergo statistical processing, but also to
interpret and quantify the production of results.
