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Explanatory ResearchResearch Methodology
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Manu Melwin JoyAssistant Professor
Ilahia School of Management Studies
Kerala, India.Phone – 9744551114
Mail – [email protected]
Explanatory Research
• Explanatory Research is
the research whose
primary purpose is to
explain why events
occur to build,
elaborate, extend or test
theory.
Explanatory Research
• Explanatory research
allows the research to
test very specific
theories and make
amends to previous
theories.
Explanatory Research• Exploratory research: A
researcher conducting
exploratory research would
generate ideas of what campus
crime is identified as based on
interviewing victims of campus
crime and evaluating what
circumstances fall under the
criteria of crime at Georgetown.
Explanatory Research• Descriptive Research: A
researcher conducting descriptive
research would look to the
campus crime databases in order
to understand the statistics
behind the crimes being
committed (when, where and
how they were committed).They
would then define the most
common profile of campus crime.
Explanatory Research
• Explanatory Research: A researcher
conducting explanatory research
would test out a theory about
Georgetown campus crime. For
instance, the theory that could be
tested is: if we prevent guests from
entering the library, do student
backpacks and laptops get stolen at
the same rates as when guests
were allowed to enter the library.
Explanatory Research
• A referendum to limit migration from
European Union countries took place
on 10th February of 2014
in Switzerland. In the score of such
event, Alexandre Afonso (2014) and
Paul Haydon (2014) did a simple
analysis of correlation between the
share of migrants population per
canton and the share of yes to anti-
immigration initiative, based on the
results of the referendum.
Explanatory Research• The research question that
lies beneath these analysis
might be “is there a
relationship between the
share of migrant population
in a given community and
the way migration is seen
by its members.
Explanatory Research• Interestingly both the graphic
and map bellow show
that wherever there is less
number of immigrants, the
rejection of immigrants is
greater. It is a clear example of
explanatory research, where the
main objective is identifying the
existence between two or more
variables.