Management Research Methodology: Integration of Principles, Methods and Techniques

CHAPTER 4

Formulation of Research Problems

• Introduction
• Approaches to Management Research Problem
• Exploration for Problem Identification
• Hypothesis Generation
• Formulation of the Problem

Spotting the Culprit

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Upon completion of this chapter, you will be able to:

• Understand the systems concept and its importance in problem formulation
• Understand approaches to research problem
• Enumerate ways of exploring for problem formulation
• Find out how to search for literature relevant to the research problem and organise it succinctly using modern techniques
• Outline the role of variables in problem definition
• Understand how to convert ...