JOIN-E7007 - IDBM Capstone: Industry Project, Lecture, 25.10.2022-2.6.2023

RESEARCH FINDINGS REPORT

Useful readings:

Elo, S., & Kyngäs, H. (2008). The qualitative content analysis process. Journal of advanced nursing, 62(1): 107-115.

Gioia, D. A., Corley, K. G., & Hamilton, A. L. (2013). Seeking qualitative rigor in inductive research: Notes on the Gioia methodology. Organizational research methods, 16(1), 15-31.

Grodal, S., Anteby, M., & Holm, A. L. (2021). Achieving rigor in qualitative analysis: The role of active categorization in theory building. Academy of Management Review, 46(3), 591-612.

Dougherty, D. (2017). Grounded theory research methods. The Blackwell companion to organizations, 849-866.

Dubois, A., & Gadde, L. E. (2002). Systematic combining: an abductive approach to case research. Journal of business research, 55(7), 553-560.

Reay, T., Zafar, A., Monteiro, P., & Glaser, V. (2019). Presenting findings from qualitative research: One size does not fit all!. In The production of managerial knowledge and organizational theory: New approaches to writing, producing and consuming theory (Vol. 59, pp. 201-216). Emerald Publishing Limited.

More optional readings are provided in the Readings -section. 

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The purpose of the Research Findings report is to document the current synthesis of your desktop and empirical research findings. 

1) Summarize your key findings from the desk-top research. No need to repeat what you have written in the previous Background report but you can rather use the findings as a starting point of your empirical research. Summarize the key methods and findings in few paragraphs to get an overview of how they relate to the empirical research. Thus, if the focus of your design challenge has changed (e.g., as an end result of POV), you might want to refine your desk research findings accordingly.

2) Describe your empirical data and findings. Give on overview of your research design e.g., how did you conduct the research, what methods did you use to collect the data, and how did you analyzed it. Give an overview of your data. What did you find out? Pay special attention to the visualization of your data and findings.

3) Synthesize your findings. Synthesis means combining the results of your desk research and empirical research findings. What interpretations you can make based on your synthesis to make better sense of your design problem? How did your understanding of the problem develop? Why and how might you redefine your design problem based on your findings? Outline the vision(s) to move forward with your project.

Structure and length:

The structure of this report is free. Use purposeful structure and headings that match your project topic. One way to structure a report is an introduction, methods, results, discussion, and conclusion/summary. Include relevant diagrams and tables and remember to use proper citing. Pay attention to the visual consistency of the report.

approx. 10-15 pages (3500-5500 words).

Remember to add the Academic ethics: Personal contribution to team deliverables

In a separate, independent document, please indicate your team workload on the deliverable. How did each of you contribute to the deliverable? Who did what and why? Not everyone needs to do the same tasks. You can divide the tasks among the team members. For example, one team member can be responsible for writing one chapter, and one another. Alternatively, one team member can be responsible for creating the content, and one can be responsible for putting it in a written format. You choose. Discuss and divide the workload as equally as possible. Make sure, as a team, that everyone feels comfortable with their workload. A few sentences for each team member is enough.

Note: Your contribution can be stated as “equal contribution” if you prefer so. This means that everyone contributed equally.

It is enough that only one team member of your team submits the assignment. Remember to write your team members' names in the report.