this is the best epxlanation video for the different research designs and really helps to understand the core of different research approaches (positivism, critical realism). We have an exam about science theory and different approaches on Thursday, I passed the video on to the whole course ;) Thank you so much!
Hi Wala! I'm glad you found this tutorial informative! We subscribe to interpretivism when we need to take context into consideration to solve our research problem. So, your research problem will dictate which philosophical stance you need to adopt. As for which strategy (inductive, deductive, retroductive or abductive) to adopt, that is also based on the problem you would like to solve. There is not a hard and fast rule that states if you subscribe to interpretivism you have to adopt a deductive or abductive approach. If your study requires you to provide tentative explanations or to make sense of a situation because there are not appropriate explanations in existing literature, then abduction can be quite useful. But, if that is not what you are doing then another approach would be more appropriate.
@@drjthesising1017 what are the opportunities and challenges of using IMM and how they influence their businesses according to their subjective experiences? so I really consider that the context has an influence which might result in different reasons and experiences with these marketplaces. Therefore, I adopted the interpretivism with the case study strategy to have an in-depth understanding of this phenomena in its context and hear from those actual users of these marketplaces. I am thinking about abductive to provide a better explanation for the case study results by supporting my finding with the existing rules (theories and hypothesis)> result rule=case. However, I am afraid about the theoretical contribution "areas for theory development" because if all my results will be supported by existing theories, then what the benefit from my research in term of theory development or even theory extending?
@@wala3184 That sounds like a very interesting topic! Let’s start with your concern about contributing to knowledge. Before we think of research design, we need to establish a gap in literature. This gap would manifest itself in your research questions, which I see you already have. If you are convinced that you have based your research questions on this GAP, then you don’t have to worry about the benefits of your study. Because all you have to do is answer those questions and you’ll be golden. On to your research design. The first thing I want to address is the concept of “Case”. Case in the context of research approach (deductive, abductive etc.) is not the same as “Case” in the context of research strategy (Case study, Survey, Experiment etc.). Here’s an example of how we get to a “case” from an abductive perspective (Rule + Result = Case). You are sick. You have a runny nose and you have a fever. You go to the doctor; the doctor examines you. Based on the Rule (the doctor’s knowledge of medicine) + the Result (your runny nose and fever), the doctor comes up with her best guess that you have the CASE of the flu. You may have the flu or it may be something else, but this is the best explanation of what she observes. When you created your research questions, did you come across a lot of related information in literature? Do you already have an idea of what you may find? For instance, do you already have a hunch of what motivate the owners of the micro home-based businesses to switch to use intermediate mobile marketplaces over intermediate physical stores, based on the literature that you read? If yes, you may be going down the deductive path. If no, doing the following may help you select. 1. Re-read your thesis up to the point of your research design. (Sometimes reading your own work just clears things up) 2. Check out the following sources: a. Saunders, M., Lewis, P., & Thornhill, A. (2009). Research methods for business students. Essex. Financial Times/Prentice Hall. b. Dubois, A., & Gadde, L. E. (2002). Systematic combining: an abductive approach to case research. Journal of Business Research, 55(7), 553-560. c. Yin, R. K. (1984). Applied social research methods series Case study research: Design and methods. d. Yin, R. K. (2003). Introduction and designing case study. Case Study Research Design and Methods. Sage Publications e. Baškarada, S. (2014). Qualitative case study guidelines. The Qualitative Report, 19(40), 1-25. 3. Use the process of elimination (stack all 4 approaches next to each other and remove inappropriate approaches). The one that’s left, is usually the one that is most appropriate for your study
@@drjthesising1017 Wooow. This really answered all my concerns. You are awesome because you guided me perfectly to what I search about. Thank you very much for your efforts with me. Regarding to the concern of theoretical contribution, to be honest, in my university they believe that as a PhD student you have not only contribute to extend the knowledge with what you will find even if you will fill gaps but also they emphasised that you have to contribute to the theory by building new one or developing others. I really do believe in what you said as long as I have clear gaps then my finding will in some way will present a theoretical contribution in a form of a conceptual model to represent all the causes then the opportunity and challenge then the relationships between them. It will serve future studies to use it in order to test its usefulness in explaining such phenomena in its context. I came across case studies that produced such models and they published their work in three stars' academic journals. Actually, you make me believe in my contribution specifically I have practical contributions which clearly might benefit this type of business in other countries that have same work conditions as what my participants had. And yes, I came across many causes to use not leave PS, opportunities and some challenges. However, I could not select the positivism and building my survey according to that because they are too much and I do believe that according to my context, I need to hear from those businesse directly and not anticipate what the reasons might be. I feel that I might influence the finding if I select the survey because I am a fan of mobile marketplaces🙈🙊. Therefore, I really want to hear from them who they decide to use these marketplaces. Moreover, there is no data regarding the physical stores may be because they recently emerged in my country and I could not find reasons to leave them to use them in the survey. In general, I am looking for actual reasons and experiences as well as explaining any areas that not clearly understood from the model which I will construct based on my finding. I did quantitative research based on a well known theory, however, I end up with some variation that need to be examined but I could not do that as it was my master thesis and there was no time to do small interviews. In my PhD, I could not find theory that can identify all the areas under my investigation clearly that's way I start with abstract theoretical frameworks which I combined them just to make the areas which I will collect data about them and my research scope clear. However, those frameworks don't suggest any potential causes or opportunities and challenges. I will fill them from my finding. That's why I think, specifically after your answer as you are an expert, that might be enough for my PhD 😅
@@wala3184 I'm glad I could be of some assistance. As for the scope of your contributions as a PhD student, your supervisor should be very valuable in guiding you :-) Happy researching!
very good explaination
Thank you this was so helpful.
I'm glad you found it helpful!! 🥰
A great explanation. I was struggling to understand this concept for years
Hi! I'm so glad that you found this tutorial useful!! 🥰
this is the best epxlanation video for the different research designs and really helps to understand the core of different research approaches (positivism, critical realism). We have an exam about science theory and different approaches on Thursday, I passed the video on to the whole course ;) Thank you so much!
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Very interesting I liked the way you explained...
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I was stuck on this for past few days. Thanks for clarifying it .
I am so glad it helped!! :-)
hello dr J, same name starts with J, your channel could be very helpful for me now, pray for me to pass my MBA journey
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I would like more information on retroductive logic
Thank you very much for the suggestion. I will most certainly add it to a future videos.
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Hi
Thanks for this informative video. Could you please tell me if the interpretivism philosophy suit with abductive research approach?
Hi Wala! I'm glad you found this tutorial informative!
We subscribe to interpretivism when we need to take context into consideration to solve our research problem. So, your research problem will dictate which philosophical stance you need to adopt.
As for which strategy (inductive, deductive, retroductive or abductive) to adopt, that is also based on the problem you would like to solve. There is not a hard and fast rule that states if you subscribe to interpretivism you have to adopt a deductive or abductive approach.
If your study requires you to provide tentative explanations or to make sense of a situation because there are not appropriate explanations in existing literature, then abduction can be quite useful. But, if that is not what you are doing then another approach would be more appropriate.
@@drjthesising1017 what are the opportunities and challenges of using IMM and how they influence their businesses according to their subjective experiences? so I really consider that the context has an influence which might result in different reasons and experiences with these marketplaces. Therefore, I adopted the interpretivism with the case study strategy to have an in-depth understanding of this phenomena in its context and hear from those actual users of these marketplaces.
I am thinking about abductive to provide a better explanation for the case study results by supporting my finding with the existing rules (theories and hypothesis)> result rule=case.
However, I am afraid about the theoretical contribution "areas for theory development" because if all my results will be supported by existing theories, then what the benefit from my research in term of theory development or even theory extending?
@@wala3184
That sounds like a very interesting topic!
Let’s start with your concern about contributing to knowledge. Before we think of research design, we need to establish a gap in literature. This gap would manifest itself in your research questions, which I see you already have. If you are convinced that you have based your research questions on this GAP, then you don’t have to worry about the benefits of your study. Because all you have to do is answer those questions and you’ll be golden.
On to your research design. The first thing I want to address is the concept of “Case”. Case in the context of research approach (deductive, abductive etc.) is not the same as “Case” in the context of research strategy (Case study, Survey, Experiment etc.).
Here’s an example of how we get to a “case” from an abductive perspective (Rule + Result = Case). You are sick. You have a runny nose and you have a fever. You go to the doctor; the doctor examines you. Based on the Rule (the doctor’s knowledge of medicine) + the Result (your runny nose and fever), the doctor comes up with her best guess that you have the CASE of the flu. You may have the flu or it may be something else, but this is the best explanation of what she observes.
When you created your research questions, did you come across a lot of related information in literature? Do you already have an idea of what you may find? For instance, do you already have a hunch of what motivate the owners of the micro home-based businesses to switch to use intermediate mobile marketplaces over intermediate physical stores, based on the literature that you read? If yes, you may be going down the deductive path. If no, doing the following may help you select.
1. Re-read your thesis up to the point of your research design. (Sometimes reading your own work just clears things up)
2. Check out the following sources:
a. Saunders, M., Lewis, P., & Thornhill, A. (2009). Research methods for business students. Essex. Financial Times/Prentice Hall.
b. Dubois, A., & Gadde, L. E. (2002). Systematic combining: an abductive approach to case research. Journal of Business Research, 55(7), 553-560.
c. Yin, R. K. (1984). Applied social research methods series Case study research: Design and methods.
d. Yin, R. K. (2003). Introduction and designing case study. Case Study Research Design and Methods. Sage Publications
e. Baškarada, S. (2014). Qualitative case study guidelines. The Qualitative Report, 19(40), 1-25.
3. Use the process of elimination (stack all 4 approaches next to each other and remove inappropriate approaches). The one that’s left, is usually the one that is most appropriate for your study
@@drjthesising1017 Wooow. This really answered all my concerns. You are awesome because you guided me perfectly to what I search about. Thank you very much for your efforts with me. Regarding to the concern of theoretical contribution, to be honest, in my university they believe that as a PhD student you have not only contribute to extend the knowledge with what you will find even if you will fill gaps but also they emphasised that you have to contribute to the theory by building new one or developing others. I really do believe in what you said as long as I have clear gaps then my finding will in some way will present a theoretical contribution in a form of a conceptual model to represent all the causes then the opportunity and challenge then the relationships between them. It will serve future studies to use it in order to test its usefulness in explaining such phenomena in its context. I came across case studies that produced such models and they published their work in three stars' academic journals. Actually, you make me believe in my contribution specifically I have practical contributions which clearly might benefit this type of business in other countries that have same work conditions as what my participants had.
And yes, I came across many causes to use not leave PS, opportunities and some challenges. However, I could not select the positivism and building my survey according to that because they are too much and I do believe that according to my context, I need to hear from those businesse directly and not anticipate what the reasons might be. I feel that I might influence the finding if I select the survey because I am a fan of mobile marketplaces🙈🙊. Therefore, I really want to hear from them who they decide to use these marketplaces. Moreover, there is no data regarding the physical stores may be because they recently emerged in my country and I could not find reasons to leave them to use them in the survey.
In general, I am looking for actual reasons and experiences as well as explaining any areas that not clearly understood from the model which I will construct based on my finding. I did quantitative research based on a well known theory, however, I end up with some variation that need to be examined but I could not do that as it was my master thesis and there was no time to do small interviews. In my PhD, I could not find theory that can identify all the areas under my investigation clearly that's way I start with abstract theoretical frameworks which I combined them just to make the areas which I will collect data about them and my research scope clear. However, those frameworks don't suggest any potential causes or opportunities and challenges. I will fill them from my finding. That's why I think, specifically after your answer as you are an expert, that might be enough for my PhD 😅
@@wala3184
I'm glad I could be of some assistance.
As for the scope of your contributions as a PhD student, your supervisor should be very valuable in guiding you :-)
Happy researching!