DRES - Doctoral Research

The course provides an overview and understanding of quantitative research methods and appropriate parametric and non-parametric analytic techniques. Students will learn statistical research methods/techniques commonly used in the discipline and will be able to identify appropriate research design, to assess validity of collection and analysis of data, and to describe the role of statistics in addressing critical issues.

The course introduces classical qualitative research traditions, as well as the design and process of qualitative research projects. Students will gain discipline-specific hands-on experience discovering, observing, and analyzing organizational phenomena. They will discern and assess researchable problems, and they will select and implement appropriate qualitative research strategies.

The course introduces students to the requirements, expectations, and mechanics of graduate-level academic writing. Students will develop the scholar-practitioner doctoral competencies of critical thinking and analysis via academic reading and writing at the doctoral level. Students will examine connections and distinctions among academic writing genres, master APA style guidelines, and understand the applied research project process.

Continuation of DRES 8651 Quantitative Research Methodology I. Designed to expand the student's understanding of analytic techniques for development, measurement, and analysis of quantitative data. Students will develop a solid theoretical background in introductory level econometrics, the ability to implement the techniques and to critique empirical studies in economics and to apply these to doctoral research.

The course expands the students’ understanding of techniques for development, measurement, and analysis of qualitative data. Specifically, through hands-on application of analysis techniques and theoretical selection, sensitivity, and saturation, students will critique and implement grounded theory and related methods and techniques via simulated business problems, scenarios, and case studies.  Continuation of DRES 8653 Qualitative Research Methods I.