ASB4115 Management Research Assignment

Running head: MANAGEMENT RESEARCH
MANAGEMENT RESEARCH
Name of Student: Mrs Rukhsadbanu Tanvirbhai Saiyad
Name of the University: Prifysgol Bangor University
Student Id: 500559389
Module code: ASB4115 management research
Author Note

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Table of Contents
Introduction..........................................................................................................................2
Main body part 1: Systematic review of academic literature..............................................2
Main body part 2: Types of qualitative research strategies.................................................6
Main body part 3: Comparison of different types of mixed methods..................................9
Conclusion.........................................................................................................................11

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Introduction
Management research refers to solving business problems with the help of systematic
inquiry and thereby contributes to the existing management knowledge. It is a type of applied
research. The main purpose of carrying out management research includes better decision
making process. A systematic review of academic literature includes making use of systematic
methods for the purpose of carrying out literature review. Therefore it includes collecting
secondary data, appraising the research studies critically, and also includes synthesizing all the
findings both quantitatively and qualitatively. The qualitative methods comprises of participant
observation, focus groups and in-depth interviews (Bell, Bryman and Harley, 2018). And a
research of mixed method includes- conducting research with the help of data collection, analysis
and integration. The main aim of the paper is to discuss about the process of management
research. The paper will discuss about the systematic review of literature, types of qualitative
methods and also discuss about a mixed method of research (Cavana, Delahaye and Sekeran,
2001).
Main body part 1: Systematic review of academic literature
Systematic review refers to reviewing formulated questions that make use of explicit and
systematic methods of identification, selection and critically appraising the research and it also
includes collection and analysis of relevant data for the purpose of inclusion in the review.
Further it may or may not make use of statistical methods for the purpose of summarizing the
results. Systematic review of literature includes making use of different systematic methods fort
collection of secondary data, appraising the research studies critically and also includes
synthesizing the results or the findings both quantitatively and qualitatively. The systematic

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review comprises of formulation of a number of research questions that further determine the
scope of the research. Further a systematic review also includes identification and synthesizing
of different studies that are related to the questions of the research. The systematic review aim at
providing summary of evidences that are relevant to the reserve questions. The main aim of the
systematic review of literature is to address problems such as identification, critical evaluation
and integration of different findings from a variety of studies that helps in addressing the
research questions (Dul and Hak, 2007). A good systematic review of literature includes a
number of elements. Some of these include- establishment of the extent of to which the existing
research is progressing towards a particular problem identified for the purpose of research. A
systematic review of literature can help in the identification of gaps, contradictions, relations,
and even inconsistencies and also aims at understanding the reason for the same. A systematic
review of literature van help in conducting overarching conceptualization or even formulating a
number of general statements, it can help in evaluating, commenting and extending and
developing theory. A systematic review can also provide for implications for policy and practice
and also includes description of the directions for future research (Easterby-Smith, Thorpe and
Jackson 2015).
The steps in the process of systematic review of literature includes- scoping,
planning,identification or searching, screening and eligibility. Scoping in the process of
systematic review of literature includes- formulating of research question or questions and
identification of the fact that a planned review has been done or not. In order to carry out a
successful review of the literature it is necessary to formulate research questions based on topics
such as what does the researcher wants to know from the research, who will be the selected
audience of for the research, whether the finds of the research are sufficient or relevant for the