Academic-oriented dissertation project is primarily focused on responding to specific research gaps, which in turn derive the project's research objectives. Moreover, the recommended practice is to identify 2 main research objectives so derived to constitute the core-focused domain of the project. And they, together with 1 to 2 minor research objectives (also derived from research gap statements), should be mapped onto a theoretical framework to express a coherent dissertation project theme. Nevertheless, it is still important to extract some practical and actionable knowledge from the research gap-oriented research findings. As such, there needs to be a research objective (a major one or minor one) that explicitly endeavor to do so. My suggestion is a follows:
Formulate a research objective such as: to explore the practical and actionable knowledge from the researching findings as related to research objectives 1 to 3 [the research gap derived ones] via the employment of the research method of [e.g. semi-structured interview research, focus group, etc.]
In short, including a practical oriented research objective is to acknowledge that, even for an academic-oriented dissertation project [that is interested in producing research findings with academic value], it remains valuable to also extract some practical value from the research gap-oriented dissertation project endeavor. In the case of MBA dissertation projects, that means to explore how the project research findings can be relevant for improving the real-world business practices in a particular contemporary situation.
Related reading: the four academic-oriented dissertation project.
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