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  • 1 Lecture

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  • how to accomplish objectives?

    * catch the opportunity
    * trial-and-error
  • Quantitative business research methods

    * numbers

    * survey
    * laboratory experiment
    * simulation
    * mathematical modelling
  • Qualitative business research methods

    * text

    * case study
    * interviewing
    * focus group
    * grounded theory
    * action research
  • 2 Lecture

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  • Quantitative is essential for the interview

    * Using number, it can objectively describe, test, segment and predict
    * it tells you main behaviors, trends, satisfaction levels, attitudes, awareness
  • Qualitative is essential for the interview

    * gives detail, understanding, emtoional response
    * emotion is always involved

  • pros of quantitative research

    * objective
    * suitable for explanation
    * suitable for generalization
  • pros for qualitative research

    * studying a topic in depth
    * takes into account the context
    * suitable for exploration > developing a theory based on naturally occuring data
    * may discover emotional and non-rational to provide a holistic response and generate new idea
  • cons of quantitative research

    * little or no contact with people or the field
    * not always possible to gnerate new hypotheses
    * aspects can be lost, superficially treated
    * context is not taken into account
  • cons of qualitative research

    * subjective, prone to interpretation
    * difficult to insure validity, reliability, generalisability
  • plan of research, states the intentions of research:

    1. Research goals, objectives and research questions
    2. Research settings
    3. Data collection
    4. Sampling
    5. Data analysis methods
    6. conceptual model

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