Solution Manual For Business Research Methods 3rd Edition by Christina Quinlan, Barry Babin, Jon Carr, Mitch Griffin, William G. Zikmund

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Solution Manual For Business Research Methods 3rd Edition by Christina Quinlan, Barry Babin, Jon Carr, Mitch Griffin, William G. Zikmund-This chapter is the introductory chapter in the textbook. As su... ch it provides some basic information on social research and business research. The two models around which the textbook is structured are introduced and explained in this chapter. The two models are the model of the research process and the model of the four frameworks approach to undertaking research. It would be useful to spend some time at this stage developing a thorough understanding of these models, as they are central to the learning experience provided by the textbook. The model of the research process is a simple and very useful way of helping students become familiar with each element of the research process. It is often simply the terminology, and the newness and perhaps the strangeness of the terminology that puts students off research from the start. If they can be encouraged to become familiar with the basic terminology very early on, they will be more confident in their approach to research methods, and in their approach to their own research project. The four frameworks approach to the research project is a model developed by Christina Quinlan specifically for students. It is invaluable in terms of providing 2 researchers and student researchers with a framework with which they can quite easily develop appropriately focused research projects. The four frameworks approach to the research project is introduced and clearly explained in this first chapter. It is applied to every step of the research process throughout the textbook. Once again, it is a very simple model. It is worth spending a little time on this chapter in order to become familiar with this model and in order to become comfortable in applying the model to the process of developing a research project. The first framework in the four frameworks approach to the research project is the conceptual framework. The conceptual framework is contained in the properly articulated research statement or question. The research statement or question contains all of the key concepts in the research project. This conceptual framework for the research project is the framework on which the other three frameworks, the theoretical framework, the methodological framework and the analytical framework, rest. It is a good idea to provide some examples of research statements/questions and to explain how they are in fact conceptual frameworks. It is helpful to explain to students that the key concepts in the conceptual framework are the key words and phrases, the important words and phrases, the big words, in the research statement/question. This exercise demonstrates the simplicity and the utility of the four frameworks approach, and it gives students confidence in their already growing abilities in the field of research methods. There is an introduction to business research and business research is simply defined as the application of social science research methods in the process of examining business phenomena. Applied business research and basic business research are differentiated and defined. Applied business research, as the chapter explains, is conducted to address a specific business decision for a specific firm or organization. Basic business research (sometimes referred to as pure research) is conducted without a specific decision in mind, and it usually does not address the needs of a specific organization. It attempts to expand the limits of knowledge in general, and as such it is not aimed at solving a particular pragmatic problem. There is a discussion in the chapter of business research in the twenty-first century, a discussion of communication technologies and their use in business research, and there is a discussion of global business research. The ways through which a proposed research project can be said to be researchable, ‘the test of researchability’ is explained. This is a very simple very useful test for students to learn and use in order to determine whether or not their proposed research project is in fact researchable. A project is researchable if the researcher has the time needed to carry out the research, the money needed (if 3 any money is needed) to carry out the research, and access to the data necessary for the research. The chapter provides an introduction to the structure of a research project, the structure of a thesis. The student will find the simple and comprehensive guide provided extremely useful. The chapter provides a very brief introduction to the subject of ethics in research. This is useful. It is a simple and easy introduction to research ethics. The issues highlighted in the brief introduction, issues such as researcher integrity and the protection of research participants, can be used a good discussion points in seminars and they can be used as starting points in students’ reflections on business research generally and on the ethics of their own research or their proposed research. [Show More]

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