Lessons Learned: Challenges When Conducting Interview-based Research in Auditing and Methods of Coping

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Kate Dodgson ◽  
Andrew J. Trotman
Keyword(s):  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Interview Method ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
The Way

Interview-based research is growing in prominence in auditing, yet many researchers are self-trained in this method, leading the novice interview researcher to encounter a number of roadblocks along the way. The overarching goal of our study is to add to the methodological resources available on the interview method by providing a compilation of challenges that novice interview researchers have experienced, along with suggested methods to cope with these challenges (i.e., how to overcome these challenges, what to do differently, and advice on navigating the interview method). With this new perspective, our paper serves as a resource to prospective interview-based researchers so they can enter the field better informed about possible roadblocks they might encounter along the way and methods to cope with these challenges. In turn, we hope to contribute to the production of more insightful and efficient interview-based research.

scholarly journals Lessons Learned in Fifteen Years of Evolution of the Linking and MoT Office of a R&D Public Center

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Luis Roberto Vega-González
Keyword(s):  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Technology Transfer Office ◽  
Management Of Technology ◽  
Time Standard ◽  
The Way

In this paper it is proposed that similarly with the evolution and maturation of any organization, the Linking and Management of Technology Office (L & MoT) of a public R&D Mexican Centre has been evolved and is in the way to be transformed into a Technology Transfer Office (TTO). Case of fifteen year evolution of the Centro de Ciencias Aplicadas y Desarrollo Tecnológico L & MoT presents empirical evidence to identify the main phases and actions that have been driving this process along this time. Standard results obtained through the years using the L & MoT Management of Technology Model (MoT) are presented. Emphasis is placed in a final section with the lessons obtained from non-standard results coming from unsuccessful negotiations and failed link actions between the Center and some external organizations. Experience has shown that not all negotiations are successful but curiously, the best lessons for the personnel of a technology transfer office are probably derived from these problematic cases.

scholarly journals Citizen Engagement Challenges in Urban Disaster Management Programs with Special Reference to Fire, Waterlogging and Pandemics

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-74
Author(s):  
Kazi Nazmul Huda ◽  
M. Jamir Uddin ◽  
Moslehuddin Chowdhury Khaled
Keyword(s):  
Special Reference ◽  
Disaster Management ◽  
Civil Defense ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Citizen Engagement ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Interview Method ◽  
Urban Disaster ◽  
Urban Fire

The main objective of this study is to explore the challenges of engaging citizens in urban disaster management (UDM) in the urban fire, waterlogging, and pandemic like COVID 19. A qualitative research approach, mainly in-depth interview method was applied to gain insights from different government officials of civil defense, police force, and ward councilors of Dhaka and Chattogram City Corporations, who were experienced in working at the field level UDM. The study tried to investigate the challenges faced by the officials during disaster rescue operations with special reference to the role of urban citizens. The findings of the study capture, in detail, the challenges faced by different personnel involved in UDM operations. While citizen engagement is expected to be a positive notion, in most cases, citizens themselves become the main obstacle of disaster management, due to their ignorance, negligence, and lack of patience in the given disastrous and pandemic situation, and thus, hinders UDM operations and crisis management. The lessons learned from contemporary urban disasters like fire and the COVID 19 pandemic are recorded elaborately. Based on that, different recommendations are made to ensure the active engagement of citizens to facilitate UDM activities in an orderly manner.   

scholarly journals Interdependence versus Truth and Justice: Lessons from Reconciliation Processes in Maluku

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 34
Author(s):  
Diah Kusumaningrum
Keyword(s):  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Truth Commissions ◽  
Formal Institutions ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
The Way

Truth commissions and trials have been applauded as the way to move on from a violent past. Yet, some post-conflict societies managed to move toward reconciliation without the presence, or the effective presence of such formal institutions. This article discusses a number of lessons learned from Maluku, where reconciliation took the interdependence path. Taking on an interpretive, emic approach, it elaborates on the sites and mechanisms of interpendence. It argues that interdependence can be as viable as truth and justice procedures in bringing about reconciliation.

USING THE NETWORK FOR EDUCATION AND OUTREACH IN ASTRONOMY

2001 ◽  
Vol 12 (04) ◽  
pp. 505-517
Author(s):  
LEOPOLDO BENACCHIO
Keyword(s):  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Education And Outreach ◽  
The Universe ◽  
The Way

This paper is divided into two parts. In the first the project of didactics and outreach "Catch the Stars in the Net!" is described, while in the second one an account of some important lessons learned on the way the Network use change the rules of the play is given. An account of the new Web module: "The Universe at Your fingertips", especially developed for visually impaired and even completely blind Web users in finally given.

Lighting Up the Bulb’s Station

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adeeb Nami ◽  
Virginia Bodolica ◽  
Martin Spraggon
Keyword(s):  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Food Industry ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Critical Question ◽  
American University ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Predisposing Conditions ◽  
The Way

This case study follows the entrepreneurial journey initiated by a group of undergraduate students in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and examines the decisions made and lessons learned along the way. Uncovering the intricacies of the process of business ideation, the case analyses the predisposing conditions that led to the establishment of the Bulb’s Station—a vending booth offering exclusively homemade food. A particular emphasis is placed on analysing the two major experiences that the partners had running the booth, namely, at the 2016 AUS Global Day and the 2016 UAE National Day Celebration at the American University of Sharjah (AUS). By providing detailed information regarding the type, variety, quantity and pricing of dishes on the menu, the reader is brought to estimate the extent to which the booth’s operation was successful at each of the two events. Based on prior challenges and shortcomings in adopted strategies, the partners are now confronted with the critical question of whether to turn the Bulb’s Station into a start-up company in the food industry in the UAE.

Mind and World in Aristotle's De Anima

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean Kelsey
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Specific Function ◽  
De Anima ◽  
Philosophical Account ◽  
The World ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Original Reading ◽  
The Way

Why is the human mind able to perceive and understand the truth about reality; that is, why does it seem to be the mind's specific function to know the world? Sean Kelsey argues that both the question itself and the way Aristotle answers it are key to understanding his work De Anima, a systematic philosophical account of the soul and its powers. In this original reading of a familiar but highly compressed text, Kelsey shows how this question underpins Aristotle's inquiry into the nature of soul, sensibility, and intelligence. He argues that, for Aristotle, the reason why it is in human nature to know beings is that 'the soul in a way is all beings'. This new perspective on the De Anima throws fresh and interesting light on familiar Aristotelian doctrines: for example, that sensibility is a kind of ratio (logos), or that the intellect is simple, separate, and unmixed.

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