I am trying to recreate the following table in a more simple format in my latex document. However the more I work on it the more messy it gets. I cant really understand how to properly align every cell when i use \multirow
and \multicolumn
This is what i have at the moment. I do like the look of my table better then the design in the image but the layout is unreadable.
\begin{table}[h]
\centering
\begin{tabular}{l||c c c c c c c}
Variables & \multicolumn{7}{c}{Values} \\
\hline \hline
Approach & \multicolumn{2}{c}{\textbf{\textit{Qualitative}}} \multicolumn{2}{c}{Quantitative} & \multicolumn{3}{c}{ } \\
\hline
Artifact Focus & \multicolumn{2}{c}{\textbf{\textit{Technical}}} & \multicolumn{2}{c}{Organizational} & \multicolumn{3}{c}{Strategic} \\
\hline
Artifact Type & \multicolumn{1}{c}{Construct} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{Model} & \multicolumn{2}{c}{\textbf{\textit{Method}}} & \multicolumn{2}{c}{Instantiation} & \multicolumn{2}{c}{Method} \\
\hline
Epistemology & \multicolumn{3}{c}{\textbf{\textit{Positivism}}} & \multicolumn{4}{c}{Interpretivism} \\
\hline
Function & \multicolumn{2}{c}{\textbf{\textit{Knowledge}}} & \multicolumn{2}{c}{Control} & \multicolumn{2}{c}{Development} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{Legitimization} \\
\hline
\multirow{2}{*}{Method} & Action research & \textbf{\textit{Case study}} & Field experiment \\ Formal proof & Controlled experiment & Prototype & Survey \\
\hline
Object & \multicolumn{3}{c}{\textbf{\textit{Artifact}}} & \multicolumn{4}{c}{Artifact construction} \\
\hline
Ontology & \multicolumn{3}{c}{\textbf{\textit{Realism}}} & \multicolumn{4}{c}{Nominalism} \\
\hline
Perspective & \multicolumn{2}{c}{Economic} & \multicolumn{2}{c}{Deployment} & \multicolumn{2}{c}{\textbf{\textit{Engineering}}} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{Epistemological} \\
\hline
Position & \multicolumn{3}{c}{Internally} & \multicolumn{4}{c}{\textbf{\textit{Externally}}} \\
\hline
Reference Point & \multicolumn{2}{c}{Artifact against research gap} & \multicolumn{2}{c}{\textbf{\textit{Artifact against real world}}} & \multicolumn{3}{c}{Research gap against real world} \\
\hline
Time & \multicolumn{3}{c}{Ex Ante} & \multicolumn{4}{c}{\textbf{\textit{Ex Post}}}
\hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{Evaluation configuration}
\label{tab:dsr}
\end{table}