Chapter 27 Multiple choice questions - Business Research Methods 5e Student Resources

. What is the name of one of the arguments that suggests that research methods are inextricably linked to epistemological commitments?

Constructivist argument

Postmodern argument

Embedded methods argument

Positivist argument

. Which version of the debate about multi-strategy research suggests that quantitative and qualitative research methods are compatible?

Technical version

Methodological version

Epistemological version

Elongated version

. What is triangulation?

Using three quantitative or three qualitative methods in a project.

Cross-checking the results found by different research strategies.

Allowing theoretical concepts to emerge from the data.

Drawing a triangular diagram to represent the relations between three participants

. How might qualitative research facilitate quantitative research?

By providing hypotheses that can later be tested.

By helping with the design of survey questions.

By informing the schedule of a structured interview.

All of the above.

. How might quantitative research support qualitative research?

By identifying specific groups of people to be interviewed.

By utilising a rigorous positivist framework.

By combining laboratory experiments with structured participant observation.

By showing the occurrence of different responses to a survey.

. Quantitative research tends to bring out a static picture of social life. However, qualitative research depicts it as…

statistical

asymmetrical

processual

proverbial

. How might qualitative research assist with the analysis of quantitative data?

By providing statistical data.

By identifying a sample of respondents for triangulation.

By making the research more value-laden and subjective.

By assisting the explanation of the relationship between two variables.

. How might multi-strategy research assist with the study of different aspects of a phenomenon?

By allowing the researcher to interview more interesting participants first.

By making it necessary to have many stages in the research process.

By revealing both the macro and the micro level.

By reducing the standard deviation of scores around the mean and median

. When might unplanned multi-stage research be described as a "salvage operation"?

When the researcher abandons their original strategy and starts all over again.

When the second research strategy is used to explain unexpected or puzzling results.

When there is a paradigm shift from quantitative to qualitative research.

When it is ethically unsound to use only one research strategy.

. Which of the following is not a feature of multi-strategy research?

It is inherently superior to mono-strategy research.

It must be appropriate to the research questions.

It must be well designed and conducted by all participants.

The skills of all researchers must be well matched amongst the research team.