Key ideas of applied business research with ALRA thinking

Key ideas of applied business research with ALRA thinking:

Research object of study

• An organization unit of analysis 
• Management-concerns formulation, based on complexity thinking
• Management-concerns-driven high-level research tasks
• Holistic
• Engaging
• Applied in orientation mainly
• Latent core-focus-domain-centric
• Visibility management with diagrams
• MBA spirit [for MBA dissertation]

Literature review focus

• Management-concerns driven
• Agile in responding to high-level research tasks
• Holistic
• Core-focus-domain centric
• Agile intellectual learning
• Engaging
• Capability-focused
• Visibility management with diagrams
• MBA spirit [for MBA dissertation]

Research design

• Explicitly aligned with agile literature review findings
• Core-focus-domain centric
• Multiple research methods-based
• Qualitative-cum-quantitative
• More deductive than inductive in approach
• Holistic
• Visibility management with diagrams
• Evaluative

Findings and analysis

• Theory-driven
• Mainly deductive
• Evaluative
• Holistic
• Core-focus-domain centric
• Fully justified throughout
• Qualitative-cum-quantitative

Conclusions and recommendations

• Managerial in orientation
• Actionable value-focused
• Core-focus-domain centric
• Fully justified throughout
• Holistic

Project control tools

• ALRA diagrams
• Dissertation table of content template