Determine Strategies: Business Research Ethics Approval Form

This document presents a completed research ethics approval form for a student's project, which aims to determine different strategies employed by a business to enter a new market, using TESCO as a case study. The form covers essential aspects of ethical research conduct, including participant recruitment, informed consent procedures (written consent), data storage, and data security protocols. The student plans to use questionnaires as a primary research method and has addressed ethical considerations such as informed consent and confidentiality/anonymity. The form details data storage on a laptop and USB cable and confirms compliance with the Data Protection Act (1998). The student declares they understand and will adhere to the institution's Research and Ethics Policy, and have discussed the ethical issues with their unit tutor.

Unit- 11 Research project

Research Ethics approval form
All students conducting research activity that involves human participants
or the use of data collected form human participants are required to gain
ethical approval before commencing their research. Please answer all
relevant questions and note that your form may be returned if incomplete.
For further support and guidance please see your respective Unit Tutor:
Before completing this form, we advise that you discuss your proposed
research fully with your unit tutor. Please complete this form in good time
before your research project is due to commence.
Section 1: Basic details:
Project title: Determine different strategies employed by a
business to enter into new business market- A case study on
TESCO.”
Student name:
Student ID number:
Programme:
College Name:
Intended research start date:
Intended research end date:
Section 2 Project summary
Please select all research methods that you plan to use as a part of
your project:
 Interviews No
 Questionnaires Yes
 Observations No
 Use of personal records No
 Data Analysis No
 Action Research No
 Focus Groups No
 Others (Please specify) :
Section 3: Participants
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Please answer the following questions, giving full details where
necessary.
Will your research involve human participants?
Who are the participants? Tick all that apply:
Ages 12-16: Young people aged: 17-18 Adults: ✓
How will participants be recruited (identified an approached)?
Approached
Describe the processes you will use to inform participants about what
you are doing:
Consent form
How will you obtain consent from participants? Will this be written?
How will it be made clear to participants that they may withdraw
consent to participate at any time?
Yes, it is written and it is may as per interest of participants.
Studies involving questionnaires: will participants be given the option
of omitting questions that do not wish to answer?
Yes ✓ No
If no please explain why below and ensure that you cover any ethical
issues arising from this
Studies involving observation: Confirm whether participants will be
asked for their informed consent to be observed.
Yes ✓ No
Will you debrief participants at the end of their participation (i.e give
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them a brief explanation of the study)?
Yes ✓ No
Will participants be given information about the findings of your study?
(This could be a brief summary of your findings in general)
Yes No✓
Section 4: Data Storage and Security
Confirm that all personal data will be stored and processed in
compliance with the Data Protection Act (1998)
Yes ✓
No
Who will have access to the data and personal information?
No one can access personal information.
During the research:
Where will the data be stored?
Laptop
Will mobile devices such as USB storage and laptops be used
Yes ✓
No
If Yes, please provide further details:
After the research:
Where will the data be stored? USB cable
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How long will the data and records be kept for and in what format?
Excel
Will data be kept for use by other researchers? Yes No✓
Section 5 : Ethical Issues
Are there any particular features of your proposed work, which may
raise ethical concerns? If so, please outline how you will deal with
these:
It is important that you demonstrate your awareness of potential risks
that may arise because of your research. Please consider/address all
issues that may apply. Ethical concerns may include, but are not
limited to the following :
 Informed consent. ✓
 Potentially vulnerable participants.
 Sensitive topics
 Risk to participants and /or researchers
 Confidentiality/anonymity ✓
 Disclosures/ limits to confidentiality
 Data storage and security, both during and after the research
(including transfer, sharing, encryption, protection).
 Reporting
 Dissemination and use of your findings.
Section 6: Declaration
I have read, understood and will abide by the institution’s
Research and Ethics Policy: Yes
No
I have discussed the ethical issues relating to my research with
my Unit Tutor:
Yes
No
I confirm that to the best of my knowledge:
The above information is correct, and this is a full description of
the ethical issues that may arise in the course of my research
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Name: Date:
Please submit your completed form to your supervisor and also
attach to the Research Proposal when submitting to Turnitin.
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