Deck 2: Business Research Strategies

Question 1

Theory is absolutely central to the conduct of business research

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Which of the following two statements characterise the term "empiricism"? Please select all that apply.

A) It suggests that only knowledge gained through experience and the senses is acceptable
B) That only quantitative evidence is appropriate to business research
C) The accumulation of facts is a legitimate goal in its own right
D) That business research must be relevant to practicing managers

Answer 2

A,C

Question 3

In deductive research, theory is something that develops after the collection and analysis of data.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

In inductive research, theory is the outcome of research.

Question 5

The term ontology concerns an understanding of what the following is:

A) Methods
B) Empiricism
C) Reality
D) Science

Question 6

The term epistemology concerns how we can know:

A) Knowledge
B) Reality
C) Research
D) Science

Question 7

Objectivism implies that we socially construct our own interpretation of external facts.

Question 8

Constructionism challenges the suggestion that social categories such as organisation and culture are objective phenomena.

Question 9

Postmodernists are sceptical that it is possible to arrive at a definitive version of reality.

Question 10

Positivism is informed by which ontological position:

A) Social constructionist
B) Subjectivist
C) Pragmatist
D) Objectivist

Question 11

Interpretivism is informed by which ontological position:

A) Social constructionist
B) Subjectivist
C) Pragmatist
D) Objectivist

Question 12

Who of the following was a founder of symbolic interactionism?

A) Karl Popper
B) Karl Jung
C) George Herbert Mead
D) Sigmund Freud

Question 13

Which of the following statements best describes a paradigm?

A) The disagreements between scientists in a given field
B) A cluster of beliefs and dictates in a particular discipline which influence what should be studied and how research should be done
C) A cluster of beliefs for which there is no consensus amongst scientists
D) A set of standards to which a scientific community used to use to evaluate research but no longer adhere to

Question 14

Which of the following is not a paradigm identified by Burrell and Morgan?

A) Functionalist
B) Interpretative
C) Radical positivist
D) Radical structuralist

Question 15

The values of a researcher have a strong influence upon the type of business research they will produce.