Research Proposal Form

Research Proposal Form
Student Name: ______________________ Student ID: ____________
Centre Name: _____________________
Tutor: ________________ Date: ___________________
Unit: ____________________
Proposed Title: ______________________________________________
Section One: Title, objective, responsibilities
Title or working title of the research project (in the form of a question, objective or hypothesis)
TOPIC: How globalisation can drive business success. A case study on ASDA.
Research objectives (e.g what is the question you want to answer? What do you want to learn how to
do? What do you want to find out?):
To study the concept of globalisation.
To identify all the factors that influence an organisation to globalise its business operations.
To examine various barriers faced by ASDA while carry out its business operations at global level.
To study the relationship between globalisation and success of an organisation.
Section Two: Reasons for choosing this research project
Reasons for choosing the project (e.g links to other subjects you are studying, personal interest, future
plans, knowledge/skills you want to improve, why the topic is important):
One reason for choose this research topic to complete the project is improve my knowledge about
globalisation.
Another reason for choosing this topic is to study contribution of globalisation in success of a business
organisation.
Section Three: Literature sources searched
Crane, A. and Matten, D., 2016. Business ethics: Managing corporate citizenship and sustainability in the
age of globalization. Oxford University Press.
Laszlo, C. and Cescau, P., 2017. Sustainable value: How the world's leading companies are doing well by
doing good. Routledge.
Eaton, D. and Kilby, G., 2015. Does Your Organizational Culture Support Your Business Strategy?. The
Journal for Quality and Participation. 37(4). p.4.
Hammer, M., 2015. What is business process management?. In Handbook on business process management
1 (pp. 3-16). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
Stiglitz, J.E., 2017. The overselling of globalization. Business Economics. 52(3). pp.129-137.
Use of key literature sources to support your research question, objective or hypothesis:
Section Four: Activities and timescales

Activities to be carried out during the research project (e.g research, development and analysis
of ideas, writing, data collection, numerical analysis, tutor meetings, production of final
outcome, evaluation, writing the report): How
long
this
will
take
:

Milestone one: _________________
Target date (set by tutor): ____________________
Milestone two: _______________________
Target date (set by tutor): ______________________
Gantt Chart
Section Five: Research approach and methodologies
What type of research approach and methodologies are you likely to use and why? What your areas
of research will cover:
This research is based on the topic of how globalisation drive business success. As this area of research is
wide in study that’s why qualitative research method is used by researcher in order to complete the study.
One of the main reason behind this is that it help researcher in study various aspects of research topic
which help in draw valid conclusion. Along with this, inductive research approach is used by investigator
as this support qualitative research.
Comments and agreement from tutor
Comments (optional):
I confirm that the project is not work which has been or will be submitted for another qualification
and is appropriate.
Agreed: ________________ (name)_______________ Date ______________
Comments and agreement form project proposal checker( IV sampling)
Comments (Optional):
I confirm that the project is appropriate.