7. Research Design and Methodological Approach

2021 ◽  
pp. 111-136
Keyword(s):  
Research Design ◽  
Methodological Approach

Lessons in Failure

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heidi Hardt
Keyword(s):  
Crisis Management ◽  
Research Design ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Institutional Memory ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Observed Behavior

Chapter 1 introduces the subject of institutional memory of strategic errors, discusses why it matters for international organizations (IOs) that engage in crisis management and reviews the book’s argument, competing explanations and methodological approach. One strategic error in the mandate or planning of an operation can increase the likelihood of casualties on the battlefield. Knowledge of past errors can help prevent future ones. The chapter explores an empirical puzzle; there remain key differences between how one expects IOs to learn and observed behavior. Moreover, scholars have largely treated institutional memory as a given without explaining how it develops. From relevant scholarship, the chapter identifies limitations of three potential explanations. The chapter then introduces a new argument for how IOs develop institutional memory. Subsequent sections describe research design and explain why NATO is selected as the domain of study. Last, the chapter identifies major contributions to literature and describes the book’s structure.

The Puzzle and the Project

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura J. Shepherd
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Sierra Leone ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Central African Republic ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Guinea Bissau ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Gender And Space

This chapter outlines the motivation for undertaking the research presented here, and offers an account of the contexts for the peacebuilding-related activities in which the United Nations is involved: Burundi; Central African Republic; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Liberia; and Sierra Leone. The research design is explained, with an overview provided of both the theoretical framework supporting the research and the methodological approach taken. The methodology is a form of discourse analysis engaging both documentary and transcribed interview texts, and this chapter explains how the author uses the concepts of gender and space to structure the analysis in the rest of the book. The chapter also presents an analysis of the literature on peacebuilding to which the author seeks to make a contribution with this research.

Applying Dramaturgy to Virtual Work Research

2012 ◽  
pp. 277-285
Author(s):  
Shawn D. Long ◽  
Frances Walton ◽  
Sayde J. Brais
Keyword(s):  
Work Environment ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Complex Dynamics ◽  
Virtual Work ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Research Techniques ◽  
Virtual Work Environment ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Work Domain

Dramaturgy as a research approach is a creative and useful tool to fully understand the complex dynamics of individuals interacting in a virtual work environment. Following Goffman’s seminal dramaturgical research techniques, this chapter applies the principles and tenants of dramaturgy to virtual work. The authors examine the historical and theoretical underpinnings of dramaturgy and offer a potential research design integrating this methodological approach. The chapter extends the dramaturgical approach to offer challenges and opportunities of using this research approach in an electronic work domain.

Mixing Methodologies

2022 ◽  
pp. 222-242
Author(s):  
Jo Denton
Keyword(s):  
Educational Research ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Empirical Methods ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
Sliding Scale ◽  
Cyclical Process ◽  
Theoretical Standpoint

Should research in a particular field follow the traditional or favoured methodologies associated with that field, or, if it is desirable for the empirical methods of research to be mixed, can the same not be said for the theoretical standpoint of the research design? Does mixing methodologies imply that methodologies can be placed on a sliding scale to create a new methodology from combining elements of the old; or does it imply an iterative or cyclical process, using a suitable methodology for the stage in the research? This chapter explores what combining qualitative and quantitative methods actually means in terms of social and educational research and how this can assist in developing a mixed methodological approach suitable for addressing wicked problems faced in education in the rapidly evolving Anthropocene epoch. To address these issues, the chapter proposes a new term for combining methodologies: ‘omniduction,' which encompasses induction, deduction and abduction and utilises each as the research, rather than the researcher, dictates.

Glocalised research design: exploring the encounter between Indigenous and Western methodologies among the Maasai Pastoralists in Monduli, Tanzania

2021 ◽  
pp. 117718012110379
Author(s):  
Joseph Christopher Pesambili
Keyword(s):  
Research Design ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Knowledge Systems ◽  
Indigenous Research ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Constructing Knowledge ◽  
Research Assistants ◽  
Epistemological Framework

Drawing upon my experience of researching the encounter between Indigenous and Western knowledge among the Maasai in Monduli, Tanzania, I reflect on theoretical and practical aspects of a glocalised research design as an alternative methodological approach to Indigenous research. I explore how the design is embodied in the Maasai’s concept of enkigúɛ́ná (meeting) both as an ontological and epistemological framework for engaging diverse worldviews and knowledge systems in meaningful ways. The experience from the fieldwork shows that not only does the glocalised design offer possibilities for decolonising research and knowledge production but also it provides a dialogical space for co-constructing knowledge between the researcher, research assistants, and participants. The glocalised design offers new insights into the importance of research at the encounter where two knowledge systems constantly in tension, meet, interrogate, and negotiate with each other through a productive dialogue to enhance mutual understanding and create new knowledge.

scholarly journals Perspektif Ekologi Politik Kebijakan Pengelolaan Danau Limboto

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hasim
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Political Ecology ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Ecological Perspective ◽  
Coastal Lake ◽  
General Management ◽  
Strategic Role ◽  
The Government

The Limboto Lake is the largest lake in Gorontalo Province. These natural resources havebiodiversity of fishery which become economic source of coastal lake community. Besides, theeconomic activity of aquaculture fishery also grows rapidly in Limboto lake. The Limboto Lake is thelargest lake in Gorontalo Province. These natural resources have biodiversity of fishery which becomeeconomic source of coastal lake community. Besides, the economic activity of aquaculture fishery alsogrows rapidly in Limboto lake ,The Limboto Lake has a strategic role for the province of Gorontalo.The Limboto lake degradation shows a more destructive of the area and the depth is reduced. Thisresearch study the product of law as a environmental politic instrument of the government andanalyzes it in a political ecological perspective. The research design used descriptive quantitative andqualitative by using methodological approach of political ecology. The results show that regulationrelated to general management of the lake and Lake Limboto is particularly weak in the context ofcohesiveness, harmonization, and problem focus.

Proposing a New Approach to the Research on Men’s Organizations

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hakim Ben Salah ◽  
Jean-Martin Deslauriers ◽  
René Knüsel
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Mixed Methods Research ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Research Strategy ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Mixed Methods Approach ◽  
Fault Lines ◽  
Men's Groups ◽  
Men's Movements

This article describes a study of men’s groups in Switzerland, in which both the official positions of the men’s organizations ( N = 40) as well as the opinions of their members ( N = 324) are examined using a mixed methods research design. This research strategy revealed significant ideological fault lines within the men’s organizations, ranging from explicitly affirmed anti-feminism to radical profeminist positions. At the same time, the mixed methods approach uncovered the existence of a shared view that transcends these fault lines, a view common to all types of men’s organizations. In light of these findings, the methodological approach used in this study is compared with that employed in the landmark studies of men’s movements from the 1990s.

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