How to formulate specific research method for dissertation project: a note

How to formulate specific research method for dissertation project: a note

Take for example, on observational research. To formulate a specific observational research method design to respond to a specific research objective, one needs to study the topic of observational research, to start with. A useful resource is my blog note on the video resources on this topic.

However, just studying observational research per se is not enough to help you to formulate a specific observational research design, say "to evaluate the conservative corporate culture of ABC Ltd". To pick up more research skill to do so, you need to do literature review to gain additional intellectual knowledge on corporate culture. To be specific, the relevant academic literature will give you some ideas , in the forms of theories and approaches, what information is needed for corporate culture evaluation. The academic literature also presents to you knowledge of how other researchers use specific research methods to approach research tasks related to corporate culture study.

Finally, you need to firm up your research design decision, e.g. on observational research design, and incorporate it into your theoretical framework level-1c. (of the Agile Literature Review Approach).