EAN: 9788132222132

ESSAYS ON RESEARCH METHODOLOGY GEBUNDEN

The book presents a collection of essays addressing a perceived need for persistent and logical
thinking  critical reasoning  rigor and relevance on the part of researchers pursuing their
doctorates. Accordingly  eminent experts have come together to consider these significant
aspects of the research process  which result in different knowledge claims in different fields
or subject areas. An attempt has been made to find a common denominator across diverse
management disciplines  so that the broadest range of researchers can benefit from the book.
The topics have been carefully chosen to cover problem formulation  contextualizing  soft &
hard modeling  qualitative and quantitative analysis and ethical issues  in addition to the
design of experiments and survey-based research. The distinguishing feature of this book is
that it recognizes the diverse backgrounds of scholars from different interdisciplinary areas
as well as their varying needs with regard to modeling  observations  measurements  aggregation
data analyses  etc. After all  researchers are expected to deepen our understanding  expand on
existing information  introduce fresh insights  present new evidence and or disprove accepted
theories  hypotheses etc. More importantly  the book cautions against the over-reliance on
software packages and mechanical interpretation of results based on the size  sign and
significance of the coefficients obtained. Instead  the focus is on the underlying theories 
hypotheses and relationships and on establishing new ones. In doing so  due care is taken to
clearly enunciate what exactly constitutes a knowledge claim and what is methodology as
distinct from methods  tools and techniques.

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