sampling in qualitative research

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 15:20

... tape interviews The audio-taped interviews were later transcribed for purposes of analysing, coding and reporting the research findings Moreover, the participants were informed that the research ... orphans in sub-Saharan Africa will continue to rise in the years ahead, due to the high proportion of adults in the region already living with HIV/AIDS, and the continuing difficulties in expanding ... core areas (Skinner et al 2004): Material problems, including insufficient access to money, food, clothing, shelter, health care and education; Emotional problems, including lack of caring, love,...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 10:20

... Chapter Assembling your research plan Chapter Writing your results and discussing your findings Chapter Understanding forms of qualitative research Part IV Continuing your qualitative research journey ... of research Introducing qualitative inquiry Attributes of qualitative research Considerations, contemplations, and consternations Learning about qualitative research Dissecting a qualitative research ... Quantitative and qualitative inquiry Recognizing a qualitative research study Identifying the components of a qualitative research study Introducing Qualitative Inquiry Learning Objectives Readers...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 20:20

... better living conditions including housing, transport, schooling and social activities such as entertainment, cinemas, cafés and so on Access to training was also identified as being better in the ... their rural areas after years of training in the cities Higher (e.g post graduate) training is a mixed blessing - one key informant pointed out that training is not popular as you have to leave ... retention, including income, working conditions, management and supervision, career development and factors linked to living conditions The third section examines attitudes to working in different...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... new qualitative research initiatives that have arisen within various business disciplines (such as in marketing) Both competitive intelligence and the emerging traditions of other qualitative research ... role in qualitative research within business This book breaks new ground by demonstrating how and why competitive intelligence can benefit by integrating itself with parallel qualitative methods in ... within competitive intelligence (and within business strategy) may be ignored It discusses how the field of competitive intelligence brings powerful qualitative tools to business research In an...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 19:22

... joining into the action, intuitively learns what is going on and why certain decisions are made Marketing ethnographers are able to unravel the true mainsprings underlying behavior by relaxing ... examined in distinct discussions: Marketing Research: Merging with Another Qualitative Tradition 35 The Qualitative Social Sciences Are Applied Disciplines The Qualitative Social Sciences Interpret ... marketing scholars are examining various communications in order to extract latent and covert information that is nested within them By being aware of the successes of qualitative marketing researchers,...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 19:22

... performed by people with a minimum of training; when research is more qualitative, however, the skills, training, and insights of the frontline researcher must usually be increased While science ... willing to employ intuition and make implicit assumptions regarding the personal opinions of those involved in an exchange Because Alderson was willing to investigate the subjective inner workings ... all meaningful research requires an insightful director to plan and coordinate activities) Certainly, all researchers have some flexibility in deciding who will actually perform “frontline” investigations...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 19:22

... of intelligence is using weak, compromised, and/or incomplete data in order to infer useful information The process of drawing inferences from diverse scraps of information and weaving them into ... employ insight and intuition when researching specific topics Competitive intelligence professionals are recognizing the significant investment that is involved in permitting analysts to build the insights ... intelligence community are increasingly re-embracing the use of judgment, intuition, and subjective insight when drawing valuable 76 Competitive Intelligence and Cross-Disciplinary Tools inferences Here,...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 19:22

... years, qualitative methods of inference were stigmatized within mainstream business Today, however, qualitative methods stemming from the social sciences and humanities are gaining respect within ... of competitive intelligence thinkers, marketing intelligence is a tactically oriented activity of sole interest to the marketing and sales staffs This book, insisting that marketing is the premier ... makers become more in uenced by marketing, the way in which Competitive Intelligence, the Planning Process, and Marketing 95 we communicate must be adjusted accordingly In embracing such a framework,...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 19:22

... conducting qualitative research and they have done so by embracing and adapting relevant aspects of the qualitative social sciences In the last 15 years, marketing research has increasingly embraced ... actually join into the behavior being investigated and become an active participant The rationale for doing so is that, in the process of interaction, the researcher gains an intuitive understanding ... upon qualitative judgments and the intuitive opinions of individuals, but nest these inferences within a focused framework In doing so, an attempt is made to harness the qualitative and intuitive...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 19:22

... corporate culture being investigated In doing so, it becomes possible for competitive intelligence analysts to apply these humanistic techniques in ways that illuminate the interworkings of the organizations ... from fashion in recent years This decline in popularity is not due to a fatal flaw in the method, but has occurred because research tastes have changed Since contemporary research interests are ... view of the workings and strategies of the organization that is being investigated In benchmarking, analysts are typically looking for clues regarding what an organization is doing right The goal...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 19:22

... regarding how to interpret communications in ways that tease out information about the communicator and/or the intended audience Since competitive intelligence analysts routinely examine and interpret ... information and they must infer probable patterns of response using whatever information is available Increasingly rigid legal and ethical guidelines are limiting the tools that competitive intelligence ... competitive intelligence professional is interested in analyzing or catering to distinct groups, not distilling the overarching corporate culture; deconstructionist methods, deriving from existentialist...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 19:22

... addition, since qualitative methods are on the cusp of innovation within business research, a qualitative orientation is well within the mainstream of business SUGGESTIONS FOR CONDUCTING A QUALITATIVE ... variety of qualitative disciplines and develop techniques based upon them In addition, analysts need to be aware of existing innovations involving qualitative methods that already exist in business ... while the qualitative methods of competitive intelligence may be more effective in gaining specific information? Competitive intelligence tends to be geared around gaining specific ad hoc information...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 19:22

... of doing so can be many UPGRADING STAFF AFTER AN AUDIT “Upgrading staff” means taking the existing analysts and helping them to gain the skills they need in order to more effectively employ qualitative ... Some of this upgrading may include academic work In business schools, graduate courses in consumer research and marketing research may be particularly useful If courses on qualitative methods ... analogies think of strategy in terms of competing against a rival To these people, competition is the main strategic consideration The main focus is on defeating others To those who are primarily in uenced...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 19:22

... things); bringing negative feelings into social relations (into marriage, when visiting someone in jail); withdrawing ("isolating"); and engaging in illicit activity (working the streets, using drugs, ... praying); or professional help (from a doctor, counselor); working; engaging in diversions (interacting with children; going to ball game or the beach, singing), or in stress reduction (smoking, ... marriage, inheritance); or borrowing from others Worse ways of making money were from hustling (i.e., conning or informing to police); stealing (i.e.,"boosting" – stealing); drug trade (e.g., selling,...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 20:20

... determination - was an important “engine” for the data produced While this personal input was sometimes slow in coming in both seminars and in the context of supervision, when involved in their ... managers?”- are moments for asking, listening, asking again, clarifying and summarizing - all essential elements in the practice of leadership Second, the backstage: in both the course work and ... them Finally, the qualitative methods and the necessary interaction moved both researcher and researched into being personal, exploratory and reflective, thus the emergence of the “I” in the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2015, 10:21

... Enabling Technologies Part III: Investing in Biomarker Research 91 Chapter Business Model 99 Chapter Evaluating Biomarker Progress in Translational Research 104 Chapter 10 Investing in Biomarker Research ... identified the binding protein in circulating blood Galectin-3 is a protein related to tumor progression and was found to be a hepatoglobin-related protein, present in higher concentrations in patients ... CT findings in the lung An extended set of genes is being investigated including APC, Cyclin D2, b-Catenin, FHIT, DNA Methyltransferase (DNA MTase), Calcitonin-Related Peptide and Deleted in Colorectal...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 21:20

... suppliers for remaining demand This competition, in turn, should improve sourcing opportunities with respect to cost and other performance indicators A declining industry may also involve increased risk ... sourcing Where to Look for Relevant Information The following sources of information will be helpful in conducting the preliminary analyses described in this chapter: 20 Implementing Purchasing ... a 20 percent increase in aircraft availability with a 20 percent decrease in costs Implementing Purchasing and Supply Chain Management: Best Practices in Market Research Market Research Market...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 22:20

... initialization, in particular, in ob‐ taining a better dynamic and thermodynamic balance, and in the case of the EnKF also providing probabilistic information by running an ensemble Finally, full domain dynamic ... very different in character, Hurricane Debbie bringing record high winds to Ireland and Hurricane Charley bringing record rainfall to Ireland and consequently severe flooding in some locations ... leading to initialization challenges Third, it is difficult to initialize TCs properly in different environments, such as a TC in shear or with dry air wrapping into its core Finally, if TC intensity...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:21