HI6008 : Business Research Proposal - Business Management Assignment

Internal Code : MAS5033

Business Management Point to consider :

• To trace the actual history of an organization or industry.
• To study the methods used historically to interpret documents.
• Analysing particular versions of events to discover vested interests in the reporting the promotion of certain viewpoints at the expense of others.
• Enables interpretation of existing organizational arrangements as the result of decisions made in the past, rather than determined by objective laws.
• Enables more rigorous assessment of the claims made by management.
• Qualitative data collection frequently results in the accumulation of a large volume of information.
• Qualitative data analysis is not governed by codified rules.
• Grounded theory is the most prominent approach.
• Coding is a key process in most qualitative data analysis strategies
• Problem of fragmentation. Secondary analysis of qualitative data is increasingly prominent.
• Documents constitute a very heterogeneous set of data sources.
• Such materials can be the focus of both quantitative and qualitative enquirer.
• Ways of analysing documents within qualitative research.