Summary: Research Skills

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• 2 Research in business studies

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• What is the role of the researcher?

  The researcher explains how information is collected, argues for methods used to obtain results and explains their limitations.
  --> The researcher has to explain and convince the reader of the purpose and methods of observation

• What is priory knowledge?

  Knowledge based on sense

• What is posteriori knowledge?

  Knowledge based on experience

• What are the different types of research orientations?

  • Positivism
    
  • Critical realism
  • Pragmatism
  • Interpretivism
  • Post-modernism

• 2.1 The different research orientations

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• What is critical realsim?

  Knowledge about social interactions versus physical facts should be apporached differently. Researchers can thus use a variety of methods while staying as objective as possible. It leads to explanatory explanations and provides insights into antecedents and causes. It encourages methodological diversity.

• 3 The research process

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• What are the steps of the research process?

  1. Research topic
     
  2. Specific research question | Problem indication
  3. Research design
  4. Good measurements
  5. Choice of data and how to collect them
  6. Data
  7. Writtem form
  8. Actions

• What are the four roles of concepts?

  • Concepts are the foundation of communication
    
  • Concepts introduce a perspective
  • Concepts are means of classification and generalization
  • Concepts serve as components of theories

• What are the roles of research methods?

  • Logic or ways of reasoning to arrive at solutions
    
  • Rules of communication --> to explain how the findings have been achieved
  • Rules of intersubjectivity --> outsiders should be able to examin and evaluate research findings

• 4 Research problems

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• What is the starting point of any research effort?

  Some idea or observation that attractes attention and initaites speculation

• What are the sources for research ideas?

  • The real world
    
  • Academic literature
  • Other people (lecturers)