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Bryman & Bell: Business Research Methods 2e

Chapter 01

Instructions

Choose your answers from a-d by clicking the radio button next to each choice and then press 'Submit' to get your score.

Question 01

Which of the following applies to 'mode 2' knowledge production?

a) It proceeds in a linear fashion building on existing knowledge.

b) It is driven primarily by an academic agenda.

c) It involves academics, policy makers and practitioners in problem solving.

d) It places limited emphasis on the practical dissemination of knowledge.

Question 02

Which of the following is not an example of a middle-range theory?

a) Labour process theory.

b) Contingency theory.

c) Strategic choice.

d) Structuration.

Question 03

Deductive research is where:

a) the researcher uses an existing theory to develop a hypothesis.

b) the researcher subjects a hypothesis to empirical scrutiny.

c) the researcher has to transform concepts within a hypothesis into researchable entities.

d) all of the above.

Question 04

Positivism is an epistemological position which:

a) means a researcher should approach data collection with enthusiasm.

b) advocates the application of natural science methods to the social world.

c) looks at the structures that generate social events and discourses.

d) suggests that research should be purely subjective.

Question 05

An interpretivist perspective on the issue of leadership suggests that:

a) 'good' leadership can be measured.

b) leaders are born and not made.

c) it is a construct that is used to make sense of social action.

d) all leaders act in the same way regardless of context.

Question 06

Which of the following statements suggests an objectivist ontological position?

a) Social phenomena have an existence independent of social actors.

b) Social phenomena have different meanings for different people.

c) Social phenomena are the product of social interaction.

d) Social phenomena are fluid and cannot be defined.

Question 07

Constructionism is an ontological position which stresses:

a) the importance of quantifying social phenomena.

b) that order in organizations is a pre-existing characteristic.

c) that the concept of masculinity is the same all over the world.

d) that language and interaction construct our experiences of reality.

Question 08

According to Burrell & Morgan (1979) which one of the following is not a paradigm within business research methods?

a) Radical structuralist.

b) Radical positivist.

c) Functionalist.

d) Interpretative.

Question 09

Quantitative research is:

a) more likely to take a deductive approach.

b) more likely to take an objectivist ontological position.

c) more likely to be informed by a positivist epistemological position.

d) all of the above.

Question 10

Qualitative research:

a) cannot be combined with quantitative research.

b) is aimed at entirely different phenomena that quantitative research.

c) is always inductive, interpretivist and constructivist.

d) none of the above.

 

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