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L5 Qualitative Research Design
L5 Qualitative Research Design
Qualitative Business
Research Design
Qualitative Research
Presented by Gideon
Wambua
Design
• What’s the difference between qualitative research
and quantitative research?
• Qualitative research describes a broad array of
scientific inquiry approaches and methods (Astalin,
2013).
• Qualitative research seeks to describe a topic rather
than measure it(Creswell & Verfasser, 2013).
• Quantitative research collects cold, hard facts that
Introduction are numerical (Bansal et al., 2018).
• McCusker and Gunaydin (2015) aptly point out that
the qualitative method helps in gathering detailed
information about a topic that can become
hypotheses to be proven through quantitative
approach
• The research problem to be investigated using
qualitative research design is terrorist threat to
international business.
• Terrorist threat to business increases the level of
uncertainty that in turn affect business decisions
(Essaddam & Karagianis, 2014)
Research • Terrorist attacks are on the increase hence the need
to understand the impact of terrorism on
Problem international business.
• In the United States between 1970 and 2014, there
have been over 2600 terrorist attacks (Dai, Rau,
Stouraitis, & Tan, 2018).
• In 2014, the loss associated with terrorism was 52.9
billion dollars (Goel, Cagle, & Shawky, 2017)
Main Types of Qualitative
Research Designs