Business Research Methodology Art and Design

Question: Discuss about theBusiness Research Methodologyfor Art and Design. Answer: Introduction The research process is defined as a few steps that are performed consecutively in a systematic manner by the researcher for completing a research work successfully. As per the work of D.R. Krathwohl, in his book named Social and Behavioral Science Research, the author described the research process in total four steps. These include firstly, introduction, secondly, methodology, thirdly, results or outcome and finally, discussion(Krathwohl, 1985). Moreover, it has been found that Jossey Bass in San Francisco published this particular book of D.R. Krathwohl in the year 1989. The author of the particular book resembles the process of research as a chain of logical steps and thus he has manifested the concept in the format of the final report. From detailed analysis, it can be said that the particular author of the book explained the concept of resembling the method or process of research as a chain of logical steps through a simple and conceptual diagram (Taylor, 2015). The diagram is consisted of four big oval shaped structures and each of these oval shaped circles is consisted of various numbers or chains of relatively smaller circles. The numbers of relatively smaller circles vary from one big oval shaped circle to another that is it can be said based on the diagram that the four relatively bigger oval shaped structures represent the four stages or steps of the research process. All the four bigger circles are arranged in a vertical order and are interconnected with each other (Saunders, 2014). The first relatively bigger oval shaped circle at the top represents the first step of the research process that is Introduction. The second bigger oval shaped circle right next to the first one represents the second step of the research process that is Method and the third circle next to it represents the third step of the procedure that is Results. Lastly, the relatively bigger oval shaped circle that is placed at the bottom of the chain represents the last or fourth step of the research process that is Discussion. The relatively smaller circles that are represented as the chain of circles within the relatively bigger ones are considered as the sub-sections or detailed steps within one particular stage. As per the diagram, it can be said that the first bigger oval shaped structure in the top is composed of five relatively smaller circles. These imply that the introduction stage is composed of five steps and these include firstly, statement of the problem, secondly, theoretical background, thirdly, historical background, fourthly, current situation and fifthly, hypotheses and/ or expectations (Lewis, 2015). As the first stage that is introduction is composed of all these five steps, it is also considered as familiarization. The second oval shaped structure that is the second stage method is composed of chain of three relatively smaller circles. This chain of three smaller circles represents the three steps of methodology, these include firstly, sample, secondly, materials and/ or apparatus and thirdly, procedure. The third relatively bigger oval shaped structure that is the stage Results is composed of chain of two relatively smaller circles (Hair Jr). This represents that the third stage of the research process that is Results is composed of two steps and these are firstly, results where description, tables and graphs are provided and explained and the analysis procedures in the second step. Therefore, the third stage of the research process is also considered as the fieldwork, whereas, the second stage Method is considered as planning as here scheduling of the sample, materials and procedure take place. Lastly, the relatively bigger oval shaped structure at the bottom of the cha in that is the last stage Discussion is composed of chain of three relatively smaller circles and this represents the particular stage is composed of three steps. These include interpretation of results, limitations and implications of results (Gray, 2016). Thus, the fourth stage of research process is known as analysis and interpretation stage. Therefore, on the basis of the diagram, it can be said that all the four steps of the research process are interrelated to each other and are arranged in a systematic way. Moreover, all the steps of each of the stage are also interconnected and have to perform in a systematic order. 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