Summary
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Research Design for Business & Management is a logical and practical book which makes no assumptions about your prior research knowledge. It will instead provide you with a clear understanding of the commonly used methods in business and management research, and enable you to tackle the fundamental elements of the research process. This book: • contains conversation boxes which answer and discuss the typical research questions you may have • focuses on the judgement calls that you will need to make in your research • uniquely demonstrates the circular relationships between research elements ensuring that you can relate chapters to your research process in real life • provides key insights into what the examiners and journals will look for in your research to help you get the best possible grades
The research question
The research question
3.1 Introduction
Where do research issues come from? A simple classification would be either that we are looking for an issue to be investigated for which findings will have implications as we go forward, or we are trying to solve a problem that we have confronted. Academic-oriented researchers tend to be the ones that ‘actively’ look for issues. It is not that they make implicit assumptions that issues are there to be addressed, but for reasons mentioned in Chapter 1, academic-oriented researchers are active identifiers of research issues. Actively addressing some of these unanswered issues will ...
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