Doctoral Research Proposals Samples For Students

Understanding the Doctoral Research Process

- Introduction- Apart from finishing college and obtaining a degree, students are aiming for a much higher educational attainment by finishing graduate studies to further their expertise in a particular area of expertise. However, finishing a graduate course would require a comprehensive research that will prove the student’s established knowledge in the discipline (Blanton-Kent et al., 2010). Doctoral research is one way for graduate students to prove their specialization in the particular field of study. In lieu to that requirement, a research about student success and retention in both public and for-profit universities and colleges will be measured to identify which of the two ...

Application Draft Qualitative Proposal

Introduction
This paper purposes to propose a draft qualitative proposal for a study into crisis management. The paper will have a selection and justification of one research method. It will then a) describe a survey, b) explain the rationale for the study, c) evaluate data collection methods, d) choose a sample size, e) evaluate some survey instruments, f) evaluate some research variables and then check on the data analysis and its interpretation in a qualitative manner.

This being a qualitative study will be modeled along some previous qualitative studies. For instance, Wooten and James’s study (2008) evaluated the role or the characteristics of human resources on ...

Application Draft Mixed Methods Proposal

Introduction
This paper proposes a draft mixed methods proposal for a study on crisis management in companies. The study will select and justify one research method. It will then describe a survey, explain the rationale for the study, evaluate data collection methods, choose a sample size, evaluate some survey instruments, evaluate some research variables and lastly check on the data analysis and its interpretation.

This study shall combine qualitative and quantitative research design aspects. A previous study by Wooten and James (2008) studied the impacts of human resources on crisis management using mixed methods. The study identified the desired characteristics of human ...

Application Week 8 Problem Statement

Background
In December 2001, American Energy multinational-Enron collapsed leaving more than 20,000 employees stranded! The company, which, had more than $100 billion in annual revenue collapsed not largely due to the financial scandals that came to the surface, but due to lack of proper crisis management tactics (Hodak, 2007). Enron led a horde of other big companies in poor crisis management, which led many companies to institute crisis management plans. However, many companies are still getting it wrong when into comes to crisis management as witnessed by the recent global financial crisis of 2008-2009 when several companies suffered ...

The purpose of this paper is to propose a draft quantitative proposal for a research study in management. The paper will begin with a selection and justification of the research method. The paper will then (a) describe a survey design (b) rationale for the survey design (c) evaluate data collection method (d) evaluate the sample size (e) evaluate the survey instruments (f) evaluate the research variables and lastly check on the data analysis and interpretation of quantitative data.

Hypothesis and Research questions

The purpose of this research paper is to investigate the hypothesis that “Many medium and small-sized companies have not put in place measures that can adequately serve ...