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Chapter 23 - Documents as sources of data
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Type: multiple response question
Title: Chapter 23 - Question 01
01) Which of the following is not a criteria for assessing the quality of documents?
- Authenticity: is the evidence genuine and of unquestionable origin?
- Credibility: is the evidence free from error and distortion?
- Representativeness: is the evidence typical of its kind, and, if not, is the extent of its untypicality known?
- Meaning: is the evidence clear and comprehensible?
a. Authenticity
b. Replicability
c. Representativeness
d. Meaning
Type: true-false
Title: Chapter 23 - Question 02
02) Personal documents such as diaries and letters can be used as data within a qualitative study.
a. True
b. False
Type: true-false
Title: Chapter 23 - Question 03
03) Representativeness is generally not an additional concern for personal documents.
a. True
b. False
Type: true-false
Title: Chapter 23 - Question 04
04) In case study and ethnographic research, documents can provide the researcher with valuable background information about the company and its history.
a. True
b. False
Type: fill-in-blank
Title: Chapter 23 - Question 05
05) Issues of authenticity and ______________ are particularly important when using documents accessed online
Feedback: Issues of authenticity and representativeness are particularly important when using documents accessed online.
Section reference: 23.4 Organisational documents
a. Credibility
b. Representativeness
Type: true-false
Title: Chapter 23 - Question 06
06) Newspapers and magazines are generally not used for business or management research as they are not considered specialist enough.
a. True
b. False
Type: true-false
Title: Chapter 23 - Question 07
07) Authenticity issues are often easier to assess in the case of media outputs.
a. True
b. False
Type: true-false
Title: Chapter 23 - Question 08
08) Treating documents as texts implies a more objectivist ontological approach.
a. True
b. False
Type: fill-in-blank
Title: Chapter 23 - Question 09
09) According to Atkinson and Coffey (2004), documents should be viewed as a distinct level of ___________ in their own right
Feedback: Treating documents as texts implies a constructionist ontology. Instead of thinking of documents as transparently representing an underlying reality, Atkinson and Coffey (2004) suggest they should be viewed as a distinct level of ‘reality’ in their own right.
Section reference: 23.6 Documents as ‘texts’
a. Reality
b. Discourse
Type: multiple response question
Title: Chapter 23 - Question 10
10) The interconnectedness of documents is referred to as:
a. Interdiscursivity
b. Polyvalence
c. Intertextuality
d. Interdisciplinary
Type: true-false
Title: Chapter 23 - Question 11
11) In reading documents as texts, there is a clear reality waiting to be discovered.
a. True
b. False
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 23 - Question 12
12) Which of the following is not a method for interpreting documents qualitatively?
a. Semiotics
b. Qualitative content analysis
c. Regression analysis
d. Historical analysis
Type: multiple response question
Title: Chapter 23 - Question 13
13) What does the acronym “ECA” refer to?
a. Ethnocentric cultural analysis
b. Ethnographic content analysis
c. Ethnomethodological covert analysis
d. Ecological cultural analysis
Type: true-false
Title: Chapter 23 - Question 14
14) A criticism levelled at business research is that it is overly realist, possibly empiricist, and suffers from myopic fact-collecting without an appropriate methodology
a. True
b. False
Type: true-false
Title: Chapter 23 - Question 15
15) There are some colonizing practices on which certain archives were founded that researchers need to be cognizant of.
a. True
b. False