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What is research anyway?

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I imagine that you view your project as a form of research. Academic staff use the term, as do your fellow students. You expect to be referred to books with titles like Research Methods to help you in your project activity. If you’re in-company based, you may hear your colleagues using it as a convenient word to describe the time which you spend in your organization when you aren’t engaged in the more usual, daily round. And, used loosely, the term is fairly appropriate — after all, you’re setting out to ‘find something out in a systematic way, in order to increase knowledge’. It would seem sensible to examine what this activity of research involves, and the prior assumptions to which you will be expected to subscribe.

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Jankowicz, A.D. (1995). What is research anyway?. In: Business Research Projects. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3386-7_6

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