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CHAPTER 4 & 5 (Building Blocks of Theory (logic represents the "…
CHAPTER 4 & 5
Research Design is a thorough blueprint for data collection in an empirical research project includes:
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Theories: explains a natural or social behavior, event, or phenomenon why things happen
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Good Theories are
Logical consistency: Is everything logical
Explanatory power: how much does it explain reality
Falsifiability: a theory must be disprovable
Parsimony: how it is explain with few variables
Example of social theories are :Agency Theory and Theory of Planned Behavior and Innovation diffusion theory
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Positivist methods: laboratory experiments and survey research,
interpretive methods: utilize an inductive approach that starts with data and tries to obtain a theory about the phenomenon of interest from the observed data.
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Popular Research Designs
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Experimental studies : test cause-effect, controlled setting and separates cause and effects
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