Academic Skills IBA, summary of the book 'Doing Business Research' Foreword and CH 1

What is an important things to keep in mind about being a good researcher?

Antwoord: You can never stop learning

‘Ologies’ are four key terms for different concepts of knowledge generation process. What are the four \'ologies\'?

Antwoord: Ontology, epistemology, axiology, methodology

What is the purpose of the book \"Doing Business Research\"?

Antwoord: A book which taught you how to think about doing research. “How do you make decisions about what to do when you are doing research, and then what are the implications of those decisions for your research”

What is induction?

Antwoord: It is the process of moving from specific observations to a more general theory. In this case, you are moving from observations of the world to general theories about it.

What is deduction?

Antwoord: Deduction is basically the process of drawing conclusions from the rational and logical principles. Principles of deduction were laid down by the Ancient Greeks, and concern the idea of moving from a general law to a conclusion about a specific instance.

How are induction and deduction linked together?

Antwoord: .

What is knowledge?

Antwoord: In order to be something to be knowledge, it must rest upon some kind of reliable evidence at least.

What is empirical?

Antwoord: Empirical refers to something which is observable by the senses, it means observing data from the world around us. We both have quantitative and qualitative experimental observations. (In this book, ‘empirical’ refers to all observable data)