Research Methodology, BBSUL - Spring 2019

For research report to be written in group; you must finalize your group member (whom you are happy/comfortable to work with or the person so much close to you that you are ready to get bad grades due to his/her blunder or for whom you are ready to see good marks for your excellent efforts)

Maximum Member Limits:

3 members

For Topic

a) first discuss with your group member on which topic you want to work.

A general theme; (Accounting/Economics/Finance/Marketing/HR/SCM eg)

Sub themes

Accounting: Earning Management; Ratio; CashFlows; Business Performance etc

Marketing: Sales Promotion; Advertising; Digital Marketing; Social Media; Celebrity Endorsement; Brand Recall/Image etc

HR: Harrasement/Motivation/Training&Development/Rewards/Workplace Environment/Org. Culture etc

Finance: Asset Pricing/Risk and Return/Corporate Finance/Leverage/WCM/Islamic Finance/Banking Risk/Credit Risk / Financial Risk/Derivatives

Economics: Microeconomics/Macroeceonomics/Inflation/Import/Export/Monetary Economics/Forex/Worker Remmitance etc

All group member must agree on sub theme of their topics (group member must be able to give 1 minutes talk each on their selected subtheme of research)

Reading Task

Must read for Ideas of Research Topic

How to find your own research Idea SSRN paper UQ

Note: You have to read this paper again and again to gain the insights of shortlisting of specific topic; Your Ultimate goal is to make a research paper for which you will be guided stage wise from introduction to literature to methodology to analysis as subtopics of the course;

See Sample of Proposals:

Product Placement Proposal Sample

RoA and RoE Sample Proposal; final published paper

Banking Sample Proposal; final paper submitted in journal so unless published can not be shared online

Sample of All Possible expected Assignments to be given during this course (from that Determinants of Return of Asset and Return on Equity Paper)

Assign 1; Assign 2; Assign 3; Assign 4; Assign 5; Assign 6; Assign 7; Assign 8; Assign 9; Final Report

Remember: I will be asking to submit above required assignment from your term paper / research project time to time will give deadline as and when required!

Week 2

Intro to Research - Summary of Week 1 three slides

Home Assignment # 1:

Every individual has to submit one page summary of a research paper for which they think it is most relevant to their group project topic

Summary should comprises, Result Problem/Problem Question, methodology (Sample Data and Tools and Technique) and Conclusion

Deadline for 1 Page summary submission should be Tuesday: 12:15 to 12:30; Hard copy only to be accepted but make sure you have photocopy of your 1 page summary with you

Reading assignment for Quiz# 1

Exploratory, Descriptive and Explanatory Research Reading Material

Week 3

Research Proposal Guidelines

Base Papers to be used for Group Projects/Report;

Note: Above Base Papers are for all the group topics; Students have to identified their own for their group and try to search from those article which are mentioned in Reference list of them!

Week 4

Your Next Assignment will be to submit a Research Proposal for which you have to refer Week 3 material and Proposal Submission will be done in 5th Week

Sample Literature Review Sheet

Critical Literature Review - Saunder - Chapter 3 Slides

Theoretical Framework and Hypothesis Development Slides

Sekaran Chapter 4 - Hypothesis n Theoretical Development

Example Questionaire - Sample for Smart Board - Ongoing

Week 5

Literature Review

APA Referencing

HW Assignment 2

Submit your Research proposal in Group having Introduction and Literature Review in Detail and methodology in Brieff

Deadline: Week 6; Second Session of Thursday

Week 6