Capstone Documents:

Qualitative Pragmatic Inquiry: Business Research Project

No site/partnership agreement required. Useful for most business research studies, including those where a site or partnership agreement is difficult to obtain. Pragmatic inquiry research studies answer questions focused on an in-depth understanding, description, and explanation of the leader’s/expert’s perspective on what worked and how as it relates to the phenomenon of interest. Includes primary data collection, semistructured interviews and secondary data collection, corroborating public documents, websites, and artifacts for example. Participants may include qualified business professionals from one’s professional or social networks, social media, or referrals from qualified participants. May only interview people about low-risk aspects of their professional roles and perspectives. The researcher cannot survey individuals, conduct focus groups, conduct in-person observations, create video recordings, interview anyone outside of adult workers, or collect any other type of data.