Assignment: Business Research Paper
Length: 6500 to 7500 words.
This requires a deep literature review and the development and evaluation of an appropriate a research design. Since you will not be executing the actual data collection, you can develop a methodology based on any justified approach. This can involve any approach to data collection including primary data and case studies or applied company projects.
You are required to:-
1. Define your research aim or problem, explaining the motivation for your choice of research topic and its relevance/importance to management theory and practice. Introduce the research setting that is the context in which you envisage the research could take place.
2. Undertake a critical review of the literature related to your research topic. This should involve an extensive reading of the academic theory and empirical studies related to your research topic. The writing up of this review should demonstrate a critical examination of this literature and the conclusions that you draw from this critique for your research aim that lead to academically-valid research questions or hypotheses.
3. An explanation and justification of the research methodology and the approach you would have intended to adopt toward achieving your research aim: this should be considered from both philosophical and practical perspectives. Explain the data collection and sample constructs and the form of analysis you would have intended to undertake. Discuss ethical issues relating to the data, participants, personal safety and research execution and the measures you would have undertaken to address them.
For qualitative methods: explain your choice of technique (e.g. survey) and include the research instrument (e.g. questionnaire) you would have intended to use. Link the investigative questions (to respondents) to the research questions derived from your literature review. Discuss the trustworthiness and bias in the data and how you would attempt to mitigate these issues.
For quantitative methods: justify and explain your choice of technique, the derivation of the model, its variables and data sources. Discuss the statistical approach to analysis, validity, and significance that you would have intended to undertake.
For mixed methods, company projects, and case studies a relevant combination or extract of the above.
4. Provide a self-reflection of your experience of undertaking the above requirement including, if you so wish, the personal impact of change in lifestyle caused by Covid-19.
Format your assignment according to the give formatting requirements:
1. The answer must be double spaced, typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the course title, the student's name, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The references and Citations should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.