Academic Skills IBA, summary of the book 'Doing Business Research' Foreword and CH 1
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Academic Skills IBA (IBAE_IBA1_ACS)
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Doing Business Research
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1.
What is an important things to keep in mind about being a good researcher?
Answer: You can never stop learning
2.
‘Ologies’ are four key terms for different concepts of knowledge generation process. What are the four \'ologies\'?
What is the purpose of the book \"Doing Business Research\"?
Answer: 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”
4.
What is induction?
Answer: 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.
5.
What is deduction?
Answer: 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.
6.
How are induction and deduction linked together?
Answer: .
7.
What is knowledge?
Answer: In order to be something to be knowledge, it must rest upon some kind of reliable evidence at least.
8.
What is empirical?
Answer: 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)
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Summary written by Matthijs Bout, 2646780, an IBA student at the VU
Course: Academic Skills IBA (IBA E_IBA1_ACSK)
Academic year: 2019/2020 (P3)
Coursebook title of Academic Skills: “Doing Business Research” by Nick Lee and Ian Lings
This summary covers the “foreword” and “Chapter 1: What is research, and why would
anyone want to do it?”
Lee, N and Lings, I. (2008). Doing Business Research: a Guide to Theory and Practice ( 1st edition). London: SAGE
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, Summary written by Matthijs Bout, 2646780, an IBA student at the VU
Course: Academic Skills IBA (IBA E_IBA1_ACSK)
Academic year: 2019/2020 (P3)
● Foreword (by professor Stewart Clegg, Aston Business School
2007)
○ Research is a process in which everyone should follow rules.
○ Problems arise because rules seem to differ among positivists, realists,
phenomenologists, ethnomethodologists, critical realists, feminists and
many more.
○ The plethora of different accounts can often be confusing.
○ The great value of the book: systematic in its accounting and coverage
of the research process.
○ It is a great orienting device (compass) → research
○ Every student will need many guides for their journey, and this is a very
good one with which to get started.
Lee, N and Lings, I. (2008). Doing Business Research: a Guide to Theory and Practice (1st edition). London: SAGE
Publications Ltd
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