gms 200 Chapter 5: Chapter 5

• School: Bishop's University
• Department: business management
• Course: gms 200
• Professor: David Newman

Document Summary

First step when beginning a research project is to select a topic (something that interests you) To do this, qualitative researchers begin with vague or unclear questions and the topic emerges slowly during the study. By contrast, quantitative researchers narrow a topic into a focused question as a discrete planning step before they finalize the study design use it as a step to developing a testable hypothesis. When designing a research project, you also need to consider practical limitations this includes costs, access to resources, approval by authorities, ethical concerns and expertise. Both have much in common but the researchers often differ on design issues such as taking a linear or nonlinear research path and developing a research question. Qualitative researchers use a language of cases and contexts, examine social processes and cases in their social context, and look at interpretations or the creation of meaning in specific settings.