BUSI4E715: RIGOUR AND RELEVANCE IN BUSINESS RESEARCH

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• As specified in the Special Regulations.

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• To provide a comprehensive and critical review of debates concerning the 'double hurdles' of rigour and relevance within business and management.
• To equip the student with the conceptual and practical skills necessary to identify and develop their dual contributions to theory and practice within the thesis phase of the programme.
• To consolidate and extend the skills acquired during previous modules in the DBA programme to successfully complete the thesis element of the Programme.

• The individual sessions within the module will be organised around the following questions:
• How is management knowledge produced?
• Who are the main producers of management knowledge?
• What kinfds of management knowledge is valused by different communities and what does this imply for the design, conduct and reporting of doctoral/DBA research?
• What id meant by rigour and relevance and how are they manifested within the design, conduct and reporting of research for the DBA?
• What is the nature of the contributions arising from DBA research and what do these imply for the individual projects being planned by students?
• How do we communicate effectively within a research context with different 'user' groups?
• How might these issues be applied to each student's research project?

Subject-specific Knowledge:

• By the end of the module students should have: a critical awareness combined implications of rigour and relevance for the conduct of doctoral research within business and management;
• a critical appreciation of the distinctions between contributions to theory and practice, together with the challenges inherent in developing and applying these a piece of doctoral research.
• further enhanced their acquisition of the advanced skills needed to plan, implement, report, and manage a comprehensive programme of research during the theis stage of the DBA.

Subject-specific Skills:

Key Skills:

• The learning outcomes will be met through a combination of lectures; guided reading; individual exercises and the group discussion of case studies.
• The assessment of the module, by written assignment, is designed to: Test the acquisition and articulation of knowledge and research skills. Test conceptual understanding and skills of application and interpretation within a practitioner-researcher context.

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