Important Types of Research

&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad1" id&equals;"quads-ad1" style&equals;"float&colon;left&semi;margin&colon;0px 0px 0px 0&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">If we break down the word research&comma; it is the combination of &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Re” and &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;search”&period; It means that research intends to find some phenomenon or existing knowledge continuously&period; The basic aim of research is to confirm the reliability of existing knowledge and contribute new knowledge in the existing knowledge&period; Research is the solution of any problem and can be classified by method or by purpose&period; So&comma; it is categorized into four broad categories such as&colon; explanatory research&comma; modeling research&comma; conclusive research and algorithmic research&period; These all are comprehensively described below&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3>Exploratory Research<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">&&num;160&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">It is a research type which elaborates the relationship between study variables without knowing their end applications&period; It is clear that general research is conducted without having any specified end purpose except to find out the higher number of possible relations between studied variables&period; Such researches provide basis for other common findings&period; These findings are used by researchers for future studies and the findings also help in building foundation for the construction of hypotheses&period; Major types of exploratory research which set the foundation for other studies are experience survey&comma; literature survey and study of problems&period;&&num;160&semi; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify"><strong>a&period;&&num;160&semi;&&num;160&semi;&&num;160&semi; Experience Survey<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Experience survey is a data base for future studies which is collected on the experience of specialists in a specified field or problem&period; These studies are based on the experiences and skills of researchers shared by previous studies&period; The purpose of this research is to build basis for future researches with minimum data collection&period; Few example of experience survey are given below&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<ol>&NewLine;<li>&NewLine;<div>Technology for Casting<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>&NewLine;<div>Material Planning<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>&NewLine;<div>Monsoon Prediction<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>&NewLine;<div>Product Pricing<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>&NewLine;<div>Investment Decisions<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>&NewLine;<div>Bidding of Tenders<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>&NewLine;<div>Portfolio Management<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ol>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify"><strong>b&period;&&num;160&semi;&&num;160&semi;&&num;160&semi; Literature Survey<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad2" id&equals;"quads-ad2" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px 0 0px 0&semi;text-align&colon;center&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">This is a type of research in which researchers collect the literature in the selected fields to examine and evaluate them for better understanding&period; It also provides guidance to the researcher about the past studies such as&colon; data sources&comma; past data&comma; results and their interpretation&period; This research type is also the foundation for further future studies&period; Some examples of literature survey research are described below&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<ol>&NewLine;<li>&NewLine;<div align&equals;"justify">Demographic Analysis <&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>&NewLine;<div align&equals;"justify">Wholesale Price Index<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>&NewLine;<div align&equals;"justify">SEI Periodic Reports<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ol>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify"><strong>c&period;&&num;160&semi;&&num;160&semi;&&num;160&semi; Study of Insight Stimulating Example<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">This is a special type of research which has insight into research topics and is mainly focused on case study researches&period; For example&colon; If any manufacturing concern is implementing JIT &lpar;Just in Time&rpar; production system&comma; it involves in nurturing of supplier’s firms to ensure reliable supply system of the firm&period; There are also other factors which affect the success of vendors’ nurturing such as&colon; government policies&comma; culture and loyalty of suppliers&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify"><strong>2&period;&&num;160&semi;&&num;160&semi;&&num;160&semi; Conclusive Research<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">This is a type of research in which hypotheses &lpar;originated by exploratory research&rpar; of a research are tested&period; The research draws conclusion on the basis of these hypotheses results&period; In this research different frameworks can be created such as&colon; decision making framework etc&period; Conclusive research is further categorized into two types which are&colon; descriptive research and experimental research&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify"><strong>&lpar;a&rpar;&&num;160&semi;&&num;160&semi;&&num;160&semi; Descriptive Research<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">This is a type of conclusive research which is conducted with specific purpose and provides definite conclusions&period; Descriptive research finds out the relationship between any specified product&comma; sampling units and culture of importance&period; Taking the example of cell phone&comma; every respondent has different degree of usage on the basis of various factors which are&colon; profession&comma; income level&comma; place and time of use&period; Here&comma; Researcher wants to see the usage pattern of demographics&period;&&num;160&semi; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify"><strong>&lpar;b&rpar;&&num;160&semi;&&num;160&semi;&&num;160&semi; Experimental Research<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">This is a type of conclusive research which is conducted under a controlled environment to analyze the effect of some factors on the studied variables&period; For-example there are various customers who claim for brand loyalty&comma; therefore&comma; in order to check their loyalty with respective brand&comma; experimental research can be used&period;&&num;160&semi; The experimental research could be conducted in this way&period; Pore same sort and color of juices in different glasses and ask customers to drink the juices and identify the respective brand for proving their loyalty with brand&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3>3&period;&&num;160&semi;&&num;160&semi;&&num;160&semi; Modelling Research <&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify"><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">This is a type of research in which situations of real life business problems can be shaped in the form of models&period; Such type of research is an abstraction of reality&period; There are numerous kinds of models which can be used for such situations&period; These models are described below&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify"><strong>&lpar;a&rpar;&&num;160&semi;&&num;160&semi;&&num;160&semi; Symbolic Model<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">This research model identifies the relationship between studied variables&period; For example&colon; performance of interest with its variables&period; All the attributes of the system have relationship by an equation&period; Example of this research model is regression equation&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify"><strong>&lpar;b&rpar;&&num;160&semi;&&num;160&semi;&&num;160&semi; Mathematical Model<&sol;strong> <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Modelling research uses the mathematical models which are mainly operation models&period; These types of models are usually applied in complex real life business problems which arise from management and direction of big systems&comma; business government&comma; machines&comma; money and material in industry&period; Examples of mathematical models are inventory models&comma; linear programming models&comma; assignment models&comma; replacement models&comma; transportation models&comma; quadratic programming models&comma; parametric programming models etc&period; Different types of researches can be conducted in this category by using different models separately or combined or developing improved methods for each modeling techniques&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify"><strong>&lpar;c&rpar;&&num;160&semi;&&num;160&semi;&&num;160&semi; Simulation Model<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">This model is an experiment conducted over a real-life stochastic system in scaled time frame to find out average of operational statistics as much as possible&period; The basic purpose is to form a decision frame work at all levels of management&period; This model can be continuous or discrete&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3>4&period;&&num;160&semi;&&num;160&semi;&&num;160&semi; Algorithmic Research<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">&&num;160&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">This is the type of research which provides well defined sequence of steps to solve the organizational problems&semi; it may be government&comma; business or any industry&period; These problems can be polynomial or combinatorial&period; Combinatorial problems are those problems which take the exponential form of volume and time complexity&period; In polynomial category researchers develop the proper algorithm for optimal solution&period; Otherwise&comma; the researchers should develop efficient heuristic for the problem&period; &NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad3" id&equals;"quads-ad3" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;

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