Define your research aim or problem, explaining the motivation for your choice of research topic and its relevance/importance to management theory and practice.
Introduce the research setting: that is the context in which you envisage the research could take place.
•Undertake a critical review of the literature related to your research topic. This should involve an extensive reading of the academic theory and empirical studies related to your research topic. The writing up of this review should demonstrate a critical examination of this literature and the conclusions that you draw from this critique for your research aim that lead to academically-valid research questions or hypotheses.
•An explanation and justification ofthe research methodology and the approach you would have intended to adopt toward achieving your research aim: this should be considered from both philosophical and practical perspectives.
Explain thedata collection and sample constructs and the form of analysisyou would have intended to undertake. Discuss ethical issues relating to the data, participants, personal safety andresearch executionand the measures you would have undertaken to address them.
For qualitative methods: explain your choice of technique (e.g.survey)and include the research instrument (e.g.questionnaire) you would have intended to use. Link the investigative questions(to respondents) to the research questions derived from your literature review.
Discuss the trustworthiness and bias in the data and how you would attempt to mitigate these issues. For quantitative methods : justify and explain your choice of technique, the derivation of the model, its variables and data sources.
Discuss the statistical approach to analysis, validity, and significance that you would have intended to undertake. For mixed methods, company projects, and case studies: a relevant combination or extract of the above
