A holistic view on the emergence of research objectives and research questions: a note for housing studies (and also relevant for business studies).
Category I
Items A to E [types of study effort with regard to the study objects]
Item A: Research methods textbooks
Item B: Literature review
Item C: News articles, exploratory interviews with stakeholders
Item D: Research gap analysis on academic literature
Item E: Self-reflection on the profile and positionality of the researcher.
Category II
Items 1 to 6 [Study objects]
Item 1: Recognized [proper] research methods
Item 2: Academic ideas and theories
Item 4: Real-world housing-concerns
Item 5: Research gaps in the academic literature
Item 6: The researcher's personal intellectual interest and resources
Category III
Linkage from Item B [literature review] (also Item A [Research methods knowledge]) to Item 4 [Real-world housing-concerns].
Case for class discussion (on a homelessness case); now consider the method of sociological imagination to come up with a few more concrete housing concerns.
Notice to my MBA students: If you replace Item 4 [real-world housing concerns] with Item 4 [real-world management concerns], the the holistic view presented in this note becomes a relevant study material for your Research Methods study.
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