RESEARCH METHODS I

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Provides doctoral students in management with a foundation for conducting research in their respective disciplines. Goal of the first half is to make students broadly aware of alternative philosophies and approaches to conducting research and to prepare them to evaluate contributions from research in other fields. Key topics include ethics in research, phenomenological vs. empirical research strategies, theories of model building, inductive vs. deductive reasoning and field vs. laboratory research. The remaining half introduces research design and analysis used across different management disciplines (use of statistical tools, principles of logic, mathematics, measurement theory, etc.).