2. Research Questions:
Research is about questions – you need to present 2 closely related questions that help you investigate an academic problem worthy of research.
*Example sub-questions[1]:
1. To what extent do ICT organizations within an alliance set out to learn from each other?
2. How do ICT organizations share and learn from their collective experiences and the topics of that learning?
3. Literature Review
Good research questions evolve as you read.
Many scholars will have published studies in areas related to your chosen topic area. As you read and review the literature on your topic, think about where your proposed research study will fit into the research literature.
• Can you add something new to what has been done already?
o E.g. you may have critically reviewed a particular area of literature relating to your chosen topic and discovered that somethingis unclear or not very well understood.
o You may find contradictory results in different studies.
o There may be a lot of research in one industry or country – but not in others.
o Maybe you want to test a theory which you argue could help explain something better than what has already been done?
• What will your proposed research study do to help us understand more about your topic?
• Ensure you make it as clear as possible to the reader how your reading helped you design your research questions – explain how your research idea is original.
