The methodology statement

Fill in this document either in French or in English. The structure of you document may be
different from this one as long as you include all the pieces of information required below.
The length for this document must be around 15 pages.

1 Reminder of the research problem

1.1 What is the research problem you want to work on?
1.2 What are the research questions?

1.3 What are your conceptual model and hypothesis or

propositions

2 The Methodology
2.1 Data collection

Explain and discuss all your methodological choices and write an overview of these:

o Explain and justify your research design.

o Is the research exploratory or formal? Why?
o Was it the only research design conceivable? Why did you choose this one and
not an alternative one?
o What is the purpose of the study (descriptive, causal or predictive)?
o Explain the type of data and the sources of data
o What is your method of data collection?
o Discuss why such a method is relevant to your study.
o Pinpoint the weaknesses and strengths of your data collection method.

o Explain and justify your sampling design

o Explain and justify the measurement instrument(s) that you use in your study

2.2. Data analysis

o Explain the method(s) you intend to use to analyze your data whatever the type of
your research (qualitative versus quantitative);

o Discuss why such methods are relevant to your study.

Bibliography
Only academic articles and books! You can find scientific papers on EBSCO.

-For Finance, Audit Control and IBES:

LEE, Nick with LINGS, Ian, (2008) Doing Business Research – a Guide to Theory and
Practice, Sage Publications Ltd, London.
-For Negotiation:
SEKARAN Uma with BOUGIE Roger (2013) Research Methods for Business A skill-
building approach, 6th Edition, Wiley-Blackwell.
-For Marketing:
Coussement K., Demoulin N. and Charry K. (2011), Marketing Research with SAS Enterprise
Guide, Gower.
-For HR, GOP, MIS :
EASTERBY-SMITH Mark, THORPE Richard and JACKSON Paul (2012) Management
Research, 4th edition, Sage