1. Methodology 1.1 Impact of Buy and Sell Recommendations We examined the effect of Barrons’ buy‚ sell and hold recommendations on stock prices‚ using the Brown and Warner (1985) standard event-study method to compute the daily abnormal returns. We used a two-step procedure to compute the average daily abnormal returns with stock price data from CRSP. First‚ we estimated the alpha and beta coefficients of each firm by using a single-factor market model. We used the days from –301 to –46 as the
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Research Proposal Business Process Outsourcing In South Africa Prepare For: Dr. Christel Troskie-de Bruin MBA program Lecturer in Research Methodology University of Stellenbosch Prepared by: Roelof Louw Student Number: 10992510 11 July 2005 Table of Contents 1 Introduction and Background 1 2 Definition of Research Problem 2 3 Preliminary Literature Review 2 4 Research Design and Method 4 5 Timeframe 5 6 Framework for Proposed Study 6 7 Provisional List of Sources
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RESEARCH METHODOLOGY Paper code: 2.25/5.85/3.33 Unit-I Introduction; meaning and nature of research; significance of research in business decision making‚ identification and formulation of research problem‚ setting objectives and formulation of hypotheses. Qu. 1. Research is a careful investigation or inquiry through search for new facts in any branch of knowledge”. Discuss in the light of nature and significance of research. Ans Research in common parlance refers to a search
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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY This chapter provides a description of the methods and procedure used in the study. The readers will be enlightened on how the researchers conducted this study. This compromises the methods and instruments that were used in data gathering‚ the respondents‚ the data gathering procedures and the statistical treatment of data. Research Method The descriptive method was chosen for this study because this looks at the phenomenon of the moment and then describes precisely
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Chapter 3 Research Methodology Introduction This chapter will illustrate the steps used to examining and testing the research problems. This chapter is enclosed with research design‚ sampling‚ questionnaire design and data collection method. Type of Study Correlational study had been explored in this study. This study was performed focusing on the consumers that have environmental knowledge in Penang. In order to predict the relationship among the attitude‚ product knowledge‚ and promotion strategies
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3.0 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 3.1 Introduction The previous chapter focused on the literature issues with the traditional voting system that encourage developing an electronic application for this purpose. This chapter describes the various options to be employed by the researcher in answering the research questions. The basis of methods used to collect data of the system problem is presented. It includes specific methods which were used to achieve the objectives of the project and a justification
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University of Groningen | Analysis Research methodology | Customer satisfaction of ‘Day Shop Inc.’ | | Table of content Page. 1. Information about the dataset 2. 1.1 Check on outliers 2. 2. Descriptive statistics 4. 3.1 Gender&Age 4. 3.2 Customer satisfaction 5. 3.3 Service quality 5. 3.4 Product quality 5. 3. Correlation and reliability analysis 6.
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MBA Semester III MB0050 MB0050 – Research Methodology Assignment Set – I Q 1. Why should a manger know about research when the job entails managing people‚ products‚ events‚ environments‚ and the like? The manager‚ while managing people‚ products‚ events‚ and environments will invariably face problems‚ big and small‚ and will have to seek ways to find long lasting effective solutions. This can be achieved only through knowledge of research even if consultants are engaged to solve problems
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AUDIT METHODOLOGY A systematic environmental audit consists of 3 main stages: Pre-Audit On-site Audit Post Audit All 3 stages need to be fulfil in order to complete the audit procedure on water quality management which to ensure clean water is to be preserved to be consumed by the end user. Pre-Audit Pre-audit is the first step in the audit procedure. During a pre-audit‚ a company or individual’s financial documents are examined to ensure that all information is correct before the company or individual
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Research Methodology Unit 1 Unit 1 An Introduction to Research Structure: 1.1 Meaning and Definition of Research Objectives 1.1.1 Research and Scientific Method 1.1.2 Characteristics of Research 1.2 Purpose of Research 1.3 Types of Research 1.3.1 Pure Research 1.3.2 Applied Research 1.3.3 Exploratory Research 1.3.4 Descriptive Research 1.3.5 Diagnostic Study 1.3.6 Evaluation Studies 1.3.7 Action Research 1.4 Research Approaches 1.5 Significance of Research in Social and Business Sciences
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