Solutions and external validity
3 important questions on Solutions and external validity
Which 4 steps do you have to make to come to the most suitable solution?
Start: most plausible explanations
• Step 1: Select the most effective explanation
• Step 2: Create effective solutions for this explanation (comes from/ based on literature)
• Step 3: Test these solutions
• Step 4: Select the most suitable solution
End: selected solution
• Step 1: Select the most effective explanation
• Step 2: Create effective solutions for this explanation (comes from/ based on literature)
• Step 3: Test these solutions
• Step 4: Select the most suitable solution
End: selected solution
A solution does not only have to be effective, but also...
• feasible,
• socially accepted, and
• attractive to the company
• socially accepted, and
• attractive to the company
Why is quantitative methods/ data also allowed and useful in qualitative inductive research?
• Do not forget to use quantitative methods/data: also allowed and useful!!
• Possibilities:
• Measurements (own, company databases,..)
• Models (inventory models, costing models, optimization models, simulation …) -> To collect the data you often use interviews…
• Methods: Activity Based Costing, sensitivity analysis, cost benefit analysis, scenario analysis…
• …
• The company is very interested in a cost benefit analysis / sensitivity analysis of the proposed solution!
• Possibilities:
• Measurements (own, company databases,..)
• Models (inventory models, costing models, optimization models, simulation …) -> To collect the data you often use interviews…
• Methods: Activity Based Costing, sensitivity analysis, cost benefit analysis, scenario analysis…
• …
• The company is very interested in a cost benefit analysis / sensitivity analysis of the proposed solution!
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