Research philosophy and methodology

The research questions that guided the adopted research methodology are: 1 - What are the main governance and management practices associated with family business continuity identified and advocated by the lessons learned and best practice approach in the wider family business literature? 2 - What are the main sources of the practices, their provenance, and their theoretical underpinnings, if any? 3 - Is it appropriate to characterize family business lessons learned (local knowledge of what works) as best practices (universal knowledge of what works)?...

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This research sought to uncover the circumstances in which stakeholder interaction around the various perspectives on problem gambling might lead to a socially responsible approach to the management of poker machine gambling in clubs. The study’s methodology adapted a learning history framework of participative action research, and recruited stakeholders to act as “co-researchers” in a transparent-research approach to the exploration of the research question.

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The International Accounting Standards require entities to report useful and accurate information, enabling shareholders and others to make informed investment decisions. This research investigates the array of factors that influence the investment decision-making of shareholders in the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET). The research employed a mixed research methodology that combines quantitative and a qualitative analysis to obtain empirical data on the factors that impact on Thai shareholders investing in large asset-based industries in the SET.

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"Doctoral thesis of Philosophy: Empirical analysis of stock return synchronicity comparison of developed and emerging markets" is divided into eight chapters. Chapter two contains a literature review and chapter three explains the methodology and the data used in the thesis. Chapters four, five and six use the three different synchronicity measures in an analysis of emerging and developed markets. A comparison between the three synchronicity measures is provided in chapter seven.

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This thesis bridges a gap in extant research by examining key factors that play a role in behavioral grocery shopping routines following minor and major disruptions. The present research involves two interrelated investigations incorporating mixed methodologies (Cresswell, 2003). The primary research objectives of the present thesis are: To model how consumer routines are established and maintained over time (i.e., model of routinization); and to investigate the impact of no, minor, and major disruptions on routinized grocery shopping behavior.

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The present thesis attempts to describe the Knowledge Management (KM) field in terms of its relevance to the Library & Information Science (LIS) professions. The methodology employed was a combination of qualitative and quantitative approaches including administration of a web-based survey and the conduct of in-depth interviews targeted at LIS professionals. The results emerging from the research revealed very positive feedback from the LIS community in regard to attitudes towards KM.

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The main objectives of this research are two fold. First, to make better or to improve the education planning mechanism at the Directorate for Development of Junior Secondary Education (DDJSE). Second, through improved planning, to expand the scope of service to the citizens of the country so that every citizen in Indonesia will have an equal access to Junior Secondary Education (JSE) and to improve the quality of JSE in Indonesia. To achieve these research objectives, practitioner research was used as an umbrella of research methodology with action research as the main research method.

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The objective of this research is to explore the domestic transfer pricing practices of service organisations in Australia with the emphasis placed on examining whether, in internal transactions, the domestic transfer price had any influence on the value perceived by the internal buyer. Because the extant transfer pricing theories cannot explain the value perceived by the internal customer in internal exchange of goods and services, an exploratory research methodology is adopted and no assumptions are made about the relationship.

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The research "The development of a work-life fit model: A demands and resources approach" sought to (i) identify the demands and resources relevant to workers of the Australian construction industry; (ii) identify the demand-resource profiles on different worker groups within a diverse construction workforce; (iii) investigate whether individual attributes influence demand-resource profiles; and (iv) evaluate whether Q Methodology was a suitable methodology with which to explore the work-life experience of workers of the construction industry.

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The thesis investigates the nature of this developmental process by employing a constructivistinterpretive research methodology and using qualitative research methods. The empirical data was drawn from group discussions and face-to-face interviews with two distinct cohorts of women. The first cohort comprised twenty-two participants, of which five were adolescent women aged fourteen to sixteen years. The thesis focused only on examining those women who were financially successful and not others.

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Objectives: The main objective of this thesis is to study the problem of stability analysis and applications in control of discrete-time 2-D systems described by Roesser model with certain types of stochastic parameters. The research includes the methodology development and establishment of analysis and synthesis conditions of the following specified models.

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This introductory chapter provides an overview of the thesis. It is arranged in five main sections. First, the background to the study is briefly introduced, followed by the rationale explaining the reason why the study was conducted. The third section illustrates the objectives of the study while the fourth presents the research questions. The chapter continues with the scope of the study followed by the significance of doing this research. It ends by presenting the thesis structure.

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In order to understand the processes that are involved in language acquisition in synchronous online discussions and to ascertain their potential benefits, research must be grounded on socio-cultural theory (SCT) and second language acquisition (SLA) theories.

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The research was expected to have the following potential outcomes. First, prior the positive change in EFL teaching with a better positionality of intercultural education, an investigation into teachers’ perceptions and practices would provide educational managers with evaluative feedback on the existing status of intercultural integration. Second, it might raise awareness of participating teachers and students on the role of culture in EFL education.

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This study was an attempt to investigate the possible effects of integrating MI-based activities into developing the EFL students’ speaking skills, and then to find out the students’ evaluation of such an integration of MI-based activities. Therefore, to attain those two main objectives, the mixed research method was adopted: the quantitative approach utilizing a quasi-experimental study in which MI-based activities were integrated into an experiment.

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The selected research designs for this thesis are cross-sectional and case study and as mentioned above Iran has been chosen as the case study of this thesis. Secondary data and contextual data are used for this thesis and are discussed comprehensively in Chapter 2 (Literature Review) and 3 (Methodology). The research strategy is a mixture of qualitative and quantitative strategies leading to selection of suitable methods for collecting the primary data.

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Summary of Doctor of thesis Philosophy: Philosophy ideas of Ton Trung Son and its meaning is based on the methodology of dialectical materialism and historical materialism, especially the principles of historical materialism on social existence and social consciousness, on struggle. caste, state and revolution, the role of individuals in history, etc. The dissertation is also based on the research results, the accepted scientific views of the previous researchers on Ton Trung Son's thought in general and the philosophy of Ton Trung Son's thought in particular. Invite you to refer.

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