Abstract
This study on the methodology of conducting the research process indicates the scarcity of an empirical approach to a problem of quality of the research process. In this paper, the determinants of the quality of the research process in the management sciences were examined. The authors employed the commonly used principal component analysis (PCA), also known as factor analysis. Furthermore, the article presents a holistic, structured and configurable framework that would result in the construction of an appropriate research methodology. The research work carried out within the discipline of management sciences must be embedded both in terms of theory and practice. Although the management sciences are most often treated as applied or practical sciences, they also undertake theoretical research in their scope, because no science can develop without theoretical research. This paper aims to identify the factors influencing the quality of the research process as the complementary elements to the contemporary methodological approaches. The analysis of the domestic and foreign scientific background, as well as the drawn conclusions, turned on the modifications introduced over the years in the management methods. The management methodology is constantly expanding by new methods, the latter being of diverse cognitive and practical effectiveness. The constant growth of diagnostic instruments has been dependent, mainly, on changes occurring in the environment. Moreover, it is connected to the need to make use of more sophisticated and effective tools. The article focused on meta-analysis as a research process and qualitative approach to the research process on the example of research results. Empirical research confirms the existence of factors that constitute a criterion supporting the assessment of the quality of the conducted research process. In the management sciences, the quality of the research process is defined as verifying the degree of implementation and consistency of the objectives of the work following the research problem and conclusions.
Highlights
The present paper focuses on presenting the factors that determine the quality of the research process in management and quality sciences
Conclusions resulting from the analysis of the literature on the methodology of conducting research processes indicate the scarcity of an empirical approach to the problem which is the quality of the research process
The essence of the research process is the formulation of the research problem, by which the research objectives are established
Summary
In today's science as well as economy (of the 21st century), we have witnessed the development of management sciences shifting towards the use of non-complex and complementary methods in order to consider all aspects of the same problem (Coghlan and Shani, 2016; Harrington and Voehl, 2016; Arefieva et al, 2021; Bogachov et al, 2020; Cyfert et al, 2020; Czakon et al, 2020; Dementyev and Kwilinski, 2020; Dyduch, 2019a, 2019b; Dzwigol et al, 2020; Gorynia, 2019; Gorynia et al, 2019; Kwilinski, 2018a, 2018b; Kwilinski et al, 2019, 2020a, 2020b, 2020c; Kwilinski and Kuzior, 2020; Kyrylov et al, 2020; Melnychenko, 2019, 2020; Miskiewicz, 2019, 2020a; Miskiewicz and Wolniak, 2020; Tkachenko et al, 2019a, 2019b). The phenomenon of methodological pluralism has emerged, implying that to solve a research problem, one is ready to apply research methods drawn from various disciplines and theoretical approaches. This means that «the multitude of ways of seeing the world is accompanied by a multitude and diversity of ways, methods, techniques of research, and attempts to transform the world». This leads very often to anarchism as well as methodological eclecticism. To obtain reliable research results, it is necessary to carefully analyse the explored problem and select such research methods that would make it possible to avoid the above-mentioned phenomena
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