Business Research Quiz # 1

The researcher conducts the research without distraction

The researcher designs the research to shed light on a specific company or organizational problem

The research data is analysed at a distance from where it was collated

The researcher conducts all aspects of the research themselves

The research involves a great deal of travelling

The respondents are involved in collecting and analysing the data themselves

The researcher studies an organizational change over time

The focus of the research is the researcher themselves

The main focus of the research is on new contribution to knowledge and the development of theory

The research process is followed in as precise a manner as is humanly possible

The results of previous studies form the basis of the hypothesis to be used for a new study

Ethical approval ratings are as high as possible

Observation of a particular activity

Interviewing stakeholders

Sending out questionnaires to specific individuals for them to answer questions on an issue or topic

Customer feedback forms

Engagement

By the researcher keeping a discreet distance

A discipline

Practice

Engagement with a wide range of stakeholders

Keeping a discreet distance from those connected to the issue under study

A single academic disciplinary area

A particular problem or practice

Fighting in a battle, where a commander deploys their troops

Climbing a hill, where you prepare what equipment you will need

Cooking, where there is a recipe for which ingredients are needed

Sailing across the oceans, where you will need to carefully navigate unknown areas in unknown conditions

Interests stemming from the students’ personal life

Current events, e.g. societal problems or organizational dilemmas

A topic done by a student in a previous year

Current research debates drawn from reading academic literature in the person’s area of interest

It offers a blueprint for exactly where the research should be conducted.

It might help to guide and align the researcher’s theorizing in productive and focused ways.

It offers a casual map to enable the researcher to undertake the components of their research in a particular order.

Being able to access important ‘grey’ literature

Increasing the transparency of a review

Being able to reach older yet still important contributions

Enhancing creativity and intuition

To identify a particular type of publication

To broaden the scope of a search on a particular subject

To delineate the scope and depth of research results

To have a programme that can operate within the Google platform

To obtain print information that is available but difficult to access elsewhere

To access working papers ahead of print

To have experts to help

To identify adjacent material that might be of interest/use on a related topic

Detox

Protocol

ABI Complete

ReQuest

All of these

The topic and scope clearly identified

A clear understanding of the relevant terms and concepts

Material from as far back as it is possible to obtain

Research conceptualized/reordered in such a way that new perspectives are generated

To learn from previous research in order to be in a position to ask focused questions

To provide a context for the research that is to be undertaken

To show volume of research that has been conducted on a particular topic

To clearly indicate what the new research will add to what is already known

When was the source created and last updated?

Is the source authoritative and therefore credible?

What motivations have led to the creation of the work?

Is there sufficient information/data/analysis offered to make the paper rigorous?

Be negative about the literature they read

Highlight the reasons why previous research was misguided or poorly conducted

Select literature they find easy to criticise

Evaluate the contribution of previous research in the light of a new research questions

What is the topic of the research?

How does this project relate to past research in the field?

What methodological approaches should be excluded?

Why a given body of literature is relevant to the research

Recruitment of study participants

Assignment at random to experimental and control groups

Creating conditions in which the two groups will compete with each other

Describing the experiment so that other researchers can potentially replicate the work in future

Can be used to describe the main features of a sample (of people, opinions, etc.)

Will identify relationships between predictor and dependant variables

Are used to gather data for survey feedback exercises in companies

Are frequently used to conduct market research and opinion polls

The aim in ethnography is for researchers to come as close as they can to the people or organizations are studying, sometimes called ‘immersion’.

Ethnography always involves covert observation.

The distinction between emic and etic perspectives in ethnography is similar to the practical research idea of combining insider and outsider perspectives.

Participant observation is important way of gathering ethnographic dat

Are closely linked to ethnographic methods

Require the researcher to be a great storyteller

Aspire to reconcile emic and etic perspectives

Are a key feature in the induction process within multinationals

Usually involve investigating events, processes, or organizations

Can be conducted using positivist, or constructionist epistemologies

Are useful for inspiring new research ideas

Are cheaper to run than factual surveys

The researcher should be fully conversant with all relevant literature before any data is collected.

GT assumes that theory will emerge from interaction with the dat

GT assumes that any contact with stakeholders will create bias and thus will invalidate results.

GT requires that the sampling framework be determined before fieldwork commences.

Normally employ at least two data collection methods

Can be used to identify greater diversity of views in comparison with single methods studies

Do not require that the research design is articulated before data is collected

Require that the researcher is competent at using each of the methods involved in the study

The primary aim of the researcher must be to contribute to ‘grand’ theories.

A common distinction about positivist and constructionist designs is that the former are more useful for testing theories, while the latter are more useful for developing theories.

We should only use the term ‘theory’ in relation to scientifically deduced and validated ideas.

The ‘subject of study’ is the academic discipline to which the research belongs.

The key debates within an academic discipline are extremely stable and do not change over time.

Neither people nor data are considered to be part of the subject of study.

When trying to identify and define the subject of study, both students and academics need to be very aware of fads and fashions and decide whether they want to follow others or to strike out independently.

Provide sufficient information at the beginning of a study to judge the overall validity of the research

Enable the researcher to make statements about the larger groups from which the sample is drawn

Minimize the overall costs of gathering research data

Test and develop the ability of members of the research team to work co-operatively

All organizations are political in some senses.

Most management research will have some political implications.

The researcher needs to be alert for political nuances.

The researcher needs to be proactive in developing his or her political agenda from the outset.

Happen to have personal or family contacts there already

Manage to get the backing of trade associations and other cross industry organisations

Refuse to sign a non-disclosure agreement as this would place unacceptable limitations on the research

Are able to gain the support of a key ‘gatekeeper’ who is already inside the organisation