Topic: The analysis of the impacts of Amazon’s international acquisitions

Methodology Proposal is to be submitted in two parts:
– (1) Methodological Choice Justifications (1900 words)

– (2) Draft of the Research instrument (1000 words)

Details:

(1) Methodological Choice Justifications
In this part of the coursework you are required to provide a critical reflection on the key methodological approaches used in your chosen area of investigation and justify your own methodological choices.
You are required to stick to the following guidelines:
Find a number of good quality refereed academic articles in your field of research where authors describe and justify their methodological approaches well (not less than 5);
Start your work from a title explaining your research direction and a single paragraph (not too long) introducing the area/problem you intend to research, including aspects of it that are relevant to the following discussion.
In the main body critically review the methods that have been used by researchers (identify and cite the articles individually) and decide which are relevant to your research and justify why they are relevant.
Be critical, and with regards to the articles you feel are not relevant, explain why they are not relevant (If you decide none are relevant, say why they are not relevant and how you intend to proceed under the circumstances – careful, this is a hard position to defend!). Those articles which you declared ‘not relevant’ do not count towards required minimum of sources for review.

When criticizing clearly name the approaches, methodologies and methods as those are known in the academic literature. Review how researchers in the field approach setting research questions; search, present and analyze data. Reflect on whether researchers are independent (of)/involved (in) their research subjects. Relate what you say to your own proposed research investigation in detail.
Since this is an early stage in your research this might involve some guesswork on your part as to what your research will consist of. Please don’t worry about this because speculation will assist in your critical reflection. Nobody is going to hold you to any choices or arguments you make at this stage. The point is to test your awareness and understanding of the methodological issues relevant to your research. Be critical of your own position – a reflexive awareness of the difficulties of any approach/position is more important (in this assignment) than trying to defend any particular position.
Throughout the text refer specifically to the sources you have read and the positions/arguments you form by using the Harvard referencing style. This section of the coursework should not be longer than 1,900 words.

– (2) Draft of the Research Instrument
In this part you are required to design a draft of your proposed questionnaire or interview questions / answer options based on research question of interest. This part should not be longer than 1000 words.
? If you intend to use a questionnaire, make sure you draft the key questions and option answers in a clear and readable style (at all time, think of your potential respondents);
? If you intend to use an interview, develop the questions and briefly explain what kind of answers you are hoping to receive from your potential respondents;
? If you propose to use secondary data, you need to be very specific which data sources or databases you are going to use, what kind of data you intend to find and how you are going to interrogate it.