Professional Documents
Culture Documents
THE RESEARCH
PROCESS
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The Management-Research
Question Hierarchy
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Management
Decision
Measurement
Questions
Investigative
QuestionsQuestions
Management
Research
Questions
Management Dilemma
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Exploration
Recent developments
Predictions by informed figures about
the prospects of the technology
Identification of those involved in the
area
Accounts of successful ventures and
failures by others in the field
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Project planning
Data gathering
Analysis, interpretation, and reporting
Types of budgeting
Rule-of-thumb
Departmental or functional area
Task
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Evaluation Methods
Ex Post Facto Evaluation
Prior Evaluation
Option Analysis
Decision Theory
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Contents of a Research
Proposal
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Data Collection
Characterized by
abstractness
verifiability
elusiveness
closeness to the phenomenon
Types
Secondary data
Primary data
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