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Chapter 02 - Business research strategies
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Title: Chapter 02 Question 01
01) Theory is absolutely central to the conduct of business research
a. True
b. False
Type: multiple response question
Title: Chapter 02 Question 02
02) 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
Type: true-false
Title: Chapter 02 Question 03
03) In deductive research, theory is something that develops after the collection and analysis of data.
a. True
b. False
Type: true-false
Title: Chapter 02 Question 04
04) In inductive research, theory is the outcome of research.
a. True
b. False
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 02 Question 05
05) The term ontology concerns an understanding of what the following is:
Section Reference: 2.3 Philosophical assumptions in business research
a. Methods
b. Empiricism
c. Reality
d. Science
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 02 Question 06
06) The term epistemology concerns how we can know:
Section Reference: 2.3 Philosophical assumptions in business research
a. Knowledge
b. Reality
c. Research
d. Science
Type: true-false
Title: Chapter 02 Question 07
07) Objectivism implies that we socially construct our own interpretation of external facts.
a. True
b. False
Type: true-false
Title: Chapter 02 Question 08
08) Constructionism challenges the suggestion that social categories such as organisation and culture are objective phenomena.
a. True
b. False
Type: true-false
Title: Chapter 02 Question 09
09) Postmodernists are sceptical that it is possible to arrive at a definitive version of reality.
a. True
b. False
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 02 Question 10
10) Positivism is informed by which ontological position:
a. Social constructionist
b. Subjectivist
c. Pragmatist
d. Objectivist
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 02 Question 11
11) Interpretivism is informed by which ontological position:
a. Social constructionist
b. Subjectivist
c. Pragmatist
d. Objectivist
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 02 Question 12
12) Who of the following was a founder of symbolic interactionism?
a. Karl Popper
b. Karl Jung
c. George Herbert Mead
d. Sigmund Freud
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 02 Question 13
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
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 02 Question 14
14) Which of the following is not a paradigm identified by Burrell and Morgan?
• functionalist—the dominant framework for the study of organizations, based on a problem-solving orientation which leads to rational explanation;
• interpretative—focuses on the conceptions of social actors and implies that understanding must be based on the experience of those who work in organizations;
• radical humanist—proposes that organizations are social arrangements from which individuals need to be emancipated and that research should be guided by the need for change;
• radical structuralist—views an organization as a product of structural power relationships, which result in conflict.
a. Functionalist
b. Interpretative
c. Radical positivist
d. Radical structuralist
Type: true-false
Title: Chapter 02 Question 15
15) The values of a researcher have a strong influence upon the type of business research they will produce.
a. True
b. False