BUS 5250 Research Methods for Business

What are the 3 relevant components that develop a theoretical framework?

1. The variable considered relevant to the study should be clearly defined. 2. A conceptual model that describes the relationships between the variables in the model should be given. 3. There should be a clear explanation of why we expect these relationships to exist. ​

A good theoretical framework identifies and defines the important variables in the situation that are relevant to the problem and subsequently describes and explains the interconnections among these variables.

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A hypothesis can be defined as a tentative, yet testable, statement, which predicts what you expect to find in your empirical data.

True

A mediating variable or intervening variable is one that surfaces between the time the independent variables start operating to influence the dependent variable and the time their impact is felt on it.

True

A research design is a blueprint or plan for the collection, measurement, and analysis of data, created to answer your research questions.

True

A strategy is a plan for achieving a certain goal.

True

A survey is a system for collecting information from or about people to describe, compare or explain their knowledge, attitudes, and behavior.

True

A theoretical framework is the foundation of hypothetic-deductive research.

True

An independent variable is one that influences the dependent variable in either a positive or negative way.

True

Ethnography is a research strategy that has its roots in anthropology.

True

Experimental designs are less useful or appropriate for answering exploratory and descriptive the questions.

True

Experiments are associated with the hypothetic-deductive approach to research.

True

Exploratory or descriptive research does not develop a theoretical framework to develop and test hypotheses.

True

Knowledge of how and for what purpose the theoretical framework is developed and the hypotheses are generated enables the manager to be an intelligent judge of the research report.

True

Surveys are commonly used in exploratory and descriptive research to collect data about people, events, or situations.

True

The choice for a particular research strategy will therefore depend on the research objective and the type of research questions of the study, but also on your viewpoint and on practical aspects such as data sources and time constraints.

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The development of a theoretical framework is crucial in deductive, theory testing, and causal research.

True

The moderating variable is one that has a strong contingent effect on the independent variable dependent variable relationship.

True

The survey strategy is very popular in business research because it allows the researcher to collect quantitative and qualitative data.

True

The theoretical framework is the foundation on which the entire deductive research project is based.

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