How research design is influenced by the background assumptions based upon different research paradigms

Essay from the year 2010 in the subject Business economics - Operations Research, grade: very good, The University of Surrey (School of Management), language: English, abstract: Science, from the Latin "scientia", means knowledge. Furthermore science represents a social subsystem, which aims the production of intelligence and knowledge. This system uses observation and experimentation to describe and explain natural phenomena, through a process called scientific research. This process bases on searching and processing information, according to established procedures and aims fundamentally to contribute to generation and evolution of human knowledge in all sectors. Research will be called scientific if its realization is subject of a planned investigation, whose development is drafted according to methodological standards, as required by science. Similarly, management research also focuses on knowledge production. It intends ...read more