Study Guide

Objective

You can implement a research or development process promoting development in the working world or your own professional field.
With your research or development process, you are able to produce results or outcomes relevant to the working world.

Content

How do you select, justify and apply research-based and practical development methods to solve your research or development task?

Materials

Individual work:
-thesis methods: the literature search and data collection
-other material and literature hints available in Learn

Teaching methods

You can proceed with your own timetable and work your thesis on your own (with the help of the supervisor of course!).

In Learn: International Business
Management: WIHI

Start to study in the Learn environment https://learn.xamk.fi/course/view.php?id=5284


Learn key: IBMWIHI

Welcome to start your thesis process and these courses!

Employer connections

No

Exam schedules

No exam

International connections

Your thesis topic and content should be related to international business management.

Student workload

Own schedule and use of time.

Content scheduling

Master’s thesis 30 cr consists of three stages/courses:

- Idea and planning 10 cr – organized during 1st year, 2nd semester
- Implementation 10 cr – organized during 1st year, 2nd semester and 2nd year, 1st semester
- Reporting, assessment, and presentation 10 cr – organized during the 1-2nd year

The content of this implementation course 10 cr:

How do you select, justify, and apply research-based and practical development methods to solve your research or development task?

Matching aim, objective, research questions to the research: What do I need to know and what literature guides the methodological discussions in my study?

-Research method in my study: What do I want to achieve with my work?
-Data collection method: HOW TO a) COLLECT AND b) ANALYZE DATA?

-methodology of the study (including reliability and validity)
-quantitative method
-qualitative method
-processual approach (action research)
-data collection methods (questionnaire, interviews, observation, etc.)
-data analysis and other issues needed (e.g. content analysis, triangulation, etc.).

Further information

You should enroll in this course in Peppi by following the enrollment deadlines. Then add yourself to this course in the Learn environment.

Evaluation scale

Approved/Failed

Assessment methods and criteria

The evaluation is based the individual assignments:
-4 a. How to start to collect and analyze data in the thesis?
-4 b. The tentative methodological part of your thesis
-5. Tentative thesis

Should be done and accepted.