Research Seminar "Quantitative Technique in Management Studies"

2020/2021

Учебный год

ENG

Обучение ведется на английском языке

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Кредиты

Кто читает:

Департамент менеджмента

Статус:

Курс обязательный

Когда читается:

4-й курс, 2, 3 модуль

Преподаватели

Аверьянова Юлия Вадимовна

Александрова Екатерина Александровна

Гарипова Фарида Габдулхаевна

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course focuses the role of research in the process of making grounded decisions in management and in related fields. By the end of the course, the students must be able to formulate a research question; organise their work on any research (article, dissertation, thesis); choose an appropriate design, including data collection and processing methods, for research; choose appropriate sample defining techniques, data collection, and data analysing methods; tell quantitative research from qualitative research; tell data types from data measurements; evaluate the quality of research and of its conclusions.

Learning Objectives

• This course aims to (1) introduce a set of research tools used for collecting and processing data, as well as to research design and the ways in which academic work can be presented;
• (2) assist the students with the writing of their fourth-year thesis.

Expected Learning Outcomes

• to know the main stages of the research process:
• — formulate a research question; — organise their work on any research (article, dissertation, thesis)
• — design a research plan or programme; — formulate a research question, the aims, and the goals of the research;
• — choose an appropriate design, including data collection and processing methods, for research; — choose appropriate sample defining techniques, data collection, and data analysing methods;
• — tell quantitative research from qualitative research; — choose appropriate sample defining techniques, data collection, and data analysing methods;
• — tell quantitative research from qualitative research;— choose appropriate sample defining techniques, data collection, and data analysing methods;
• — evaluate the quality of research and of its conclusions.— present research in different formats (presentation, poster, report, etc.)

Course Contents

• Introduction. Overviewing course structure, content, ILO and assessment methods.
  Practitioners need management research: why. Scientific and non-scientific methods: several principles to distinguish. Basic concepts – observation, hypothesis, law, theory.
• Research design basics, study cycles and components
  Research design: research rationale, research question. Research questions: good and bad ones. Empirical cycle: observation, induction, deduction, testing and evaluation. Types of studies and research implications.
• Research questions, introduction and literature review
  Literature review: structure, key words. Common pitfalls and mistakes. Sources, Citation management systems, and styles.
• Research methods, procedures and techniques – overview
  Experiments. Surveys. Observation. Case study. Interviews. Grounded theory. Descriptive statistics, inferential statistics. Causality and correlation. Reserach methods in managements and business
• Sampling. External validity: basics and threats (selection, history, setting, pretesting, reactivity)
  Population, sample, stratum, census, element. Random (probability) sampling methods. Non probability sampling methods. Sample estimate. Sampling bias. Confidence interval. Sample size
• Big data, internet based studies
  Recent study methods and mixed methodology
• Qualitative methodology basics and qualitative data collection
  Interviews and focus groups. Types of interview, possible purposes. Recruiting participants, sampling pitfalls, data saturation.
• Methods for qualitative data analysis
  Observation/ethnography. Fieldwork. Finalizing results.
• Research documentation and planning
  Research protocol, statistical plan, data management, codebook. Research program (brief) structure. Research plan (milestones), resource planning.
• Constructs and variables. Data types
  Operational definition. Independent, dependent variables. Constant. Confounder, control variables. Measurement levels and structures. Nominal, ordinal, interval and ratio scales. Construct validity. Measurement reliability. Test/retest. Split ratios. Random and systematic error.
• Types of quantitative research
  Types of questions to be asked. Target audience and response rate. Tips for building effective survey. Pretesting. Quality control. Designing questionnaire and response options. Response and rate bias. Panels design. Time series design.
• Survey, crossectional study, experiments. Research findings
  Reports, scientific papers, abstracts, posters. Presentation skills and tips. Accuracy, Validity, Limitations, Implications. Confirmation/disconfirmation. Reliability and validity (construct, internal, external). Research ethics: fraud, plagiarism, conflicts of interest, harking, p-hacking, data snooping, cherry picking, selective omission.

Assessment Elements

• Test 1
  Only the final grade is rounded up by means of simple arithmetic rounding.
• Presentation of the final thesis 1
  Only the final grade is rounded up by means of simple arithmetic rounding.
• Presentation of the final thesis 2
• Presentation of the final thesis 3
• Opposing

Interim Assessment

• Interim assessment (3 module)
  0.05 * Opposing + 0.25 * Presentation of the final thesis 1 + 0.25 * Presentation of the final thesis 2 + 0.25 * Presentation of the final thesis 3 + 0.2 * Test 1

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Essential Skills for Management Research [Электронный ресурс] / ed. David Partington, - SAGE Publications, 2002., - Режим доступа: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/hselibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=354941.
• Partington, D., & Cranfield School of Management. (2002). Essential Skills for Management Research. London: SAGE Publications Ltd. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=251666

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Busi, M. (2013). Doing Research That Matters : Shaping the Future of Management (Vol. 1st ed). Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=606114
• Lancaster, Geoff. Research Methods in Management : A Concise Introduction to Research in Management and Business Consultancy, Routledge, 2004.
• Sharp, J. A., Howard, K., & Peters, J. (2002). The Management of a Student Research Project (Vol. 3rd ed). Aldershot, Hants, England: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=269760
• Strang, K. D. (2015). The Palgrave Handbook of Research Design in Business and Management. New York City, NY: Palgrave Macmillan. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1075586
• Thiétart, R. A. (2001). Doing Management Research : A Comprehensive Guide. London: SAGE Publications Ltd. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=251802