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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Inductive Research"”.
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Client perceptions of Child Protective Services
Inductive research methods are used to explore client perceptions of Child Protective Services in Clark County, NV. Interviews with fifteen persons who had experiences with CPS are discussed. The small sample limits the generalizability of the results, but there are indications the type of help …
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Enduring Wisdom for Leaders: Bringing a Biblical Worldview to Leadership and Management
… the most published book in history, with three research questions: What are key insights for leaders from a biblical worldview? How do those insights align with current scholarship? How do they add to our understanding to help current leaders? Key points were drawn from all 66 books of the …
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Leadership preferences of a Generation Y cohort: A mixed methods study.
… test the themes. The driving force behind this research design was to build a foundation of understanding through inductive research (qualitative) and to test and enrich the foundation through deductive means (quantitative).
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Limitations of Systems Engineering Students due to the absence of English in their curriculum at the University of El Salvador, semester II, 2019
… during semester II, 2019. The results of this research were gotten by means of a mixed method and inductive research because it was planned to generalize at the end the results found to the problem in question. Keywords: the absence of English language, limitations of systems ingineering …
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Developing a pathway out of poverty in the Global Coffee Production Network - a case study of employment creation for baristas in the speciality coffee industry
… Situated in the qualitative paradigm with an inductive research agenda, this research utilises the case study method to explore Ground UP, a skills training programme of a local not-for-profit, which provides barista skills training that unemployed people can use to become economically active …
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Perceived effectiveness of alternative programming : a case study /
The topic of this research was alternative programming in secondary public education. The purpose of this research was to explore the perceived effectiveness of two public secondary programs that are aJternative to mainstream or "regular" education. Two case study sites were used to research …
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Feedback loops in educational environments using web-based survey tools : new technology development and three implementation case studies
… from customer use cases in a bottom-up approach. Inductive research methods included observations of thirteen potential adoption trials, of which nine progressed to full usage trials. In depth interviews of potential users, actual users, and experts in this field led to insights on the adoption …
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Alone Together: The Experiences of LGBTQIA+ Undergraduates at Faith-based Colleges
… constructivist grounded theory methodology, an inductive research approach which seeks to embrace the pre-existing realities and experiences that both the research and the participants bring to the research process. This method also recognizes the unique reality that is also constructed during …
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Systems Theory Based Framework for Competency Models
<p>The purpose of this research was to develop and apply a systems theoretic framework for design, analysis and transformation of competency models using an inductive research design. This research examines the origins and development of competency models from a systems theoretic perspective. …
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Investigating the feasibility of creating a suite of dedicated attitude-themed support materials for coaches based on the tripartite component model
… Professional Studies (MProf) qualification. The research undertaken relates to investigating the feasibility of creating a suite of dedicated attitude-themed support materials for coaches based on the tripartite component model. Through personal observation of supervising, supporting and …
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Critical success factors for data governance: a theory building approach
… to be a relatively emerging subject, and several researchers have proposed different models that help in understanding the concepts related to it. Reviewing the literature, however, reveals a lack of research into the critical success factors (CSFs) for data governance, which shows a need for …
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Exploring charity brand relationships in a healthcare context.
… the exploratory nature of this investigation, an inductive research methodology was adopted where data collection involved qualitative interviews with twenty-two participants including three extensive biographical interviews. Findings suggest the importance for charities to better understand the …
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An Evaluation of tourism stalkholder relationships: a case study of Agra, India.
This is an inductive research project which critically evaluates the application of stakeholder theory to the analysis of tourism destination networks. It explores the dynamics of the relationships between the tourism organisations involved using the case of Agra, India. Cities and towns become …
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Towards an understanding of business design within enterprise architecture management: a cautionary tale
… business design. Consequently, the qualitative inductive research described in this document was undertaken to explore the perceived paradoxical relationship between Business Design and Enterprise Architecture Management. This dissertation recounts the process and results of this research …
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Potentials and limitations of language in observing and interpreting art
… I produced between 2013 and 2018. Scaffolding my research framework, in a first inductive research phase, I scope the works and provisionally conclude that the pieces connect through the concepts of Time, Repetition, Absurdity, and Play, and aesthetically, they link by improvisation, lo-tech, …
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Systems Theory-Based Construct for Identifying Metasystem Pathologies for Complex System Governance
<p>The purpose of this research was to develop a systems theory-based construct for metasystem pathologies identification in support of the problem formulation phase of systems-based methodologies using an inductive research design. Problem formulation has been identified as one of the most …
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The good enough survivor: strategies for preparing organisations and employees for collective trauma
… it can impact the psyche of many survivors. This research has drawn upon the stories of 22 survivors of this collective trauma obtained using a free associative interview technique. Subsequently the data was analysed using both Thematic Analysis and Biographic-Narrative Interpretive Method. …
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The importance of contextual factors on the accuracy of estimates in project management. An emergence of a framework for more realistic estimation process
… estimates to be achieved. As an outcome of this research, a new framework composed of best practices has been discovered. This comprises an open platform that project experts and practitioners can work with efficiently, and that researchers can develop further as required. The research …
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On urban fear: privilege, symbolic violence, topophobia: the everyday experiences of middle-class women in Secunda, South Africa
… I dispute the bias against emotion-based research that exists within planning, arguing that this has debilitating consequences for transformation. I suggest the use of intersecting emotion-spectra rather than the dichotomous approach conventionally taken by emotion research. A feminist …
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Rents, efficiency, and incomplete markets: exploring the inner workings of the emerging market for private land preservation and conservation easements
… or no price information require a thorough inductive research analysis for appropriate economic model specification. This is because there may not be enough information in the current economic literature on which to base priors; hence the researcher will inflict her own biases on the study …
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