Research Methodology

Recommended Prerequisites

Fluent reading in English.

Teaching Methods

On this course unit syndicate group will be stimulated and the lecturing will be profoundly interactive, evolving its participants in the session animation. There will be an attempt of evolving the students in their learning process, always as possible, shaping it to the image of its individual interests, namely, and its investigation preferential areas. The presentation of the several concepts and methodologies shall be always done with the support of cases illustrative examples.

Learning Outcomes

Be able to make a clear research proposal: a) identify, delimitate and justify the relevance of a subject/problem; b) identify specific work questions; c) operationalize key concepts to the elaboration of a conceptual framework; d) describe and articulate the main characteristics of the instruments of data collection; e) draw and justify a coherent investigation strategy; selection of an appropriate data collection method; f) formulate the main and potential reasoning behind to a given research proposal; Know a set of investigation methodologies and be able to analyze critically its potentialities and limitations; Be able to build and validate some data research instruments, in particular, with resource to questionnaires and interview scripts; Know how to apply quantitative and qualitative methods in the data analysis.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Introduction to investigation in Management: What is a dissertation? Where to find inspiration to the definition of a research theme?
The moments of a dissertation. The choice and the relationship with the instructor.
From the Investigation Project to the investigation strategy in Social Sciences.
Empiric Investigation and the research methodologies: a panoramic view of the investigation techniques in Social Sciences.
Questionnaire Survey I.
Questionnaire Survey II.
Research and use of information sources.
Literature review: objectives and guiding principles.
Sampling procedures and scale validation.
Data collection procedures. The interview.
Writing a dissertation.

Head Lecturer(s)

Maria Paula Abreu Pereira da Silva

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Continuous assessment: 100.0%

Bibliography

BRYMAN, Alan — Social research methods. 2nd ed. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004. [BP 303 BRY]

BRYMAN, Alan; BELL, Emma — Business research methods. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford Univer-sity Press, 2007. [BP 658 BRY]

ESSENTIAL guide to qualitative methods in organizational research. Edited by Catherine Cassell , Gillian Symon. London: Sage Publications, 2005. [BP 658 ESS]

HUSSEY, Jill; HUSSEY, Roger — Business research : a practical guide for undergraduate and postgraduate students. Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 1997. [BP 001.8 HUS]

LIAMPUTTONG, Pranee; EZZY, Douglas — Qualitative research methods. 2nd ed. South Mel-bourne : Oxford University Press, 2006. [BP 001.8 LIA]

NEW (The) handbook of methods in nonverbal behavior research. Edited by Jinni A. Harrigan , Robert Rosenthal , Klaus R. Scherer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. [BP 001.8 NEW]

SAGE (The) handbook of qualitative research. Editors Norman K. Denzin; Yvonna S. Lincoln. 3rd ed. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications