Business Research Report Proposal:
The research proposal will consist of the following NINE (9) items:
1. A business research topic. What is your topic and what is its business significance.
2. A brief literature review of the research topic. Produce 1 to 2 pages on background information on your research topic.
3. Research questions for the identified problem or opportunity. What questions will you research?
4. Appropriate research methodologies and techniques to use for the research project. What research methodology will you use?
5. A project plan using a Gantt Chart and clearly defined milestones. Use Microsoft Project or other software to produce the Gantt Chart. Your milestones for H16008 are:
6. Description of the research process. What will be the steps in your project?
7. Description of data collection and analysis methods. What data will you collect? What data analysis will you do?
8. Description of expected research outcomes. Who is your primary mentor or supervisor?
9. A completed Ethics Checklist. Complete and sign ethics checklist below and attach with FINAL research project proposal.
Business Research Literature Review:
This will consist of developing a comprehensive literature review chapter for the business research proposal. You will have to identify a business research topic, describe the literature on the research topic and provide hypotheses based on the literature for the research questions.
It is a special form of information gathering where you present the known body of knowledge relevant to the issue(s) or problem(s) you are addressing.
The literature review is NOT just a string of authors, names, pages and references. It is structured as if you are developing an argument explaining why you need to undertake your research. Possibly, you might point to: a gap in the literature, or an issue or question that needs more evidence or research.
1. Introduction to Literature Review
Start with introduction which includes a list of the topic you will do a literature review on, what your hypotheses are from these topics that you are starting out with (what you think is true about the topics).
E.g. I believe outsourcing for IT services I still growing and providing better quality for companies.
1.1 Topic 1
Define your 1'4 key word or phrase. Provide strengths and weaknesses from literature about the topic. Provide at least 4 references. Analyse your hypothesis about this topic and discuss your conclusion.
1.2 Topic 2
Define your 2nd key word or phrase. Provide strengths and weaknesses from literature about the topic. Provide at least 4 references. Analyse your hypothesis about this topic and discuss your conclusion.
1.3 Topic 3
Define your 3'd key word or phrase. Provide strengths and weaknesses from literature about the topic. Provide at least 4 references. Analyse your hypothesis about this topic and discuss your conclusion.
1.4 Topic 4
Define your 4th key word or phrase. Provide strengths and weaknesses from literature about the topic. Provide at least 4 references. Analyse your hypothesis about this topic and discuss your conclusion.
1.5 Conclusion:
Finish with conclusion which includes a list of the topic you discussed in the literature review, a summary of what your literature research discovered and a conclusion on the hypotheses from these topics that you started with.