FINAL EXAM BUSINESS RESEARCH

_________ is a careful investigation or inquiry specially through search for new facts in any branch of knowledge

_______is also known as decisional research, use existing knowledge as an aid to the solution of some given problem or set of problems

• Applied research

• Fundamental research

• Futuristic research

• Descriptive research

• Explanatory research

It is frequently called basic or pure research, which seeks to extend the boundaries of knowledge in a given area with no necessary immediate application to existing problems.

• Applied research

• Fundamental research

• Futuristic research

• Descriptive research

• Explanatory research

includes surveys and fact-finding inquiries of different kinds. It tries to discover answers to the questions who, what, when, and sometimes how. Here the researcher attempts to describe or define a subject, often by creating a profile of a group of problems, people, or events.

• Applied research

• Fundamental research

• Futuristic research

• Descriptive research

• Explanatory research

______goes beyond description and attempts to explain the reasons for the phenomenon that the descriptive research only observed. The research would use theories or at least hypotheses to account for the forces that caused a certain phenomenon to occur.

• Applied research

• Fundamental research

• Futuristic research

• Descriptive research

• Explanatory research

__________research is based on the measurement of quantity or amount. It is applicable to phenomena that can be expressed in terms of quantity

• Predictive research

• Analytical research

• Quantitative research

• Qualitative research

• Conceptual research

It is concerned with qualitative phenomenon (i.e.) phenomena relating to or involving quality or kind. This type of research aims at discovering the underlying motives and desires, using in-depth interviews for the purpose.

• Predictive research

• Analytical research

• Quantitative research

• Qualitative research

• Conceptual research

__________ could be referred to as a likeness of something. It consists of symbols referred to a set of variables and their interrelationships represented in logical arrangements designed to represent, in whole or in part, some real system or process.

What type of research has the following objective:

To test a hypothesis of a causal relationship between variables.

• exploratory or formulative research studies

• descriptive research

• diagnostic research

• hypothesis-testing research

____________ resesearch is appropriate when proof is sought that certain variables affect other variables in some way. Evidence gathered through experiments