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Business Research Methods

Donald R. Cooper, Pamela Schindler

Chapter 4

The Research Process: An Overview - all with Video Answers

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Chapter Questions

Problem 1

Some questions are answerable by research and others are not. Using some management problems of your choosing, distinguish between them.

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Problem 2

Discuss the problems of trading off exploration and pilot testing under tight budgetary constraints. What are the immediate and long-term effects?

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Problem 3

A compary is experiencing a poor inventory management situation and receives alternative research proposals.
Proposal 1 is to use an audit of last year's transactions as a basis for recommendations. Proposal 2 is to study and recommend changes to the procedures and systems used by the materials department. Discuss issues of evaluation in tems of:
a. Ex post facto versus prior evaluation.
b Evaluation using option analysis and decision theory.

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Problem 4

It costs thousands of dollars to generate an application (app) for the Apple Pad. Just oftering an app is not a guarantee of success. The most successful apps, sold as downicads, have to offer true functional value. Apple takes weeks to review an app proposal; only with Apple's approval can an app be officialy oftered for the IPad. If you were Apple, what research would you want to see within the proposal to approve a new app for the iPad?

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Problem 5

Based on an analysis of the last six months' sales, your boss notices that sales of beef products are declining in your chain's restaurants. As beef entrée sales decline, so do profis. Fearing beef sales have declined due to several newspaper stories reporting E. coli contamination discovered at area grocery stores, he suggests a survey of area restaurants to see if the situation is pervasive.
a What do you think of this research suggestion?
b How, if at all, could you improve on your boss's formulafon of the research question?

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Problem 6

What are the benefits to MindWriter if Henry and Associates implements a pilot study?

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Problem 7

How can MindWriter's existing database of service complaints be used to accumulate service problem information in advance of the proposed research. What information should be sought?

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Problem 8

Using Exhibit 4-1 and case examples from some research company's website, discover how favored techrique approaches to resoarch design dominate many fims' activities.

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Problem 9

Using Exhibit 4-1, find a case study of a research example in which a clear statement of the management dilemma leads to a precise and actionable research.

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Problem 10

In a recent scientific discovery, a natural ingredient found in milk can protect against obesity even while mice keep on enjoying diets that are high in fat. The researchers, who reported their results in the Cell Metabolism, likened this finding to a new kind of vitamin. It appears that mice that take nicotinamide riboside in comparatively high doses along with their high-fat meals bum more fat and are protected from obesity. They also become better runners because of muscies that now benefit from greater endurance. If you worked for the National Milk Producers Federation, how would you create a research proposal to support a national ad campaign to promote the qualities of milk in a balanced det, using this finding?

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