Conceptual frameworks are conjectural/hypothetical research tools that are particularly important and widely used in the disciplined inquiry, including educational (technology) research. However, there is a lack of guidance on how to construct them. Hence, the objective of the current research was to provide a methodological perspective through a case study on how to develop such a framework for deductive research with a complex research subject. To this end, a five-step technique was constructed and implemented: text database, research panorama, authors’ network and thread, location, and definition. The case of Pygmalion effect was actual and significant as a recent meta-analysis found it to have an outstanding impact, among other leadership interventions, and relevant to educational research as it was first experimented in educational context. The conclusion found the five steps to be intertwined as they were built upon each other, carried the thread forward and opened it up deeper and closer to the research subject by each section. The errors and limitations involved uniqueness, availability, less is more, meaningfulness, approach, and space. Hence, the recommendations were defined as the regard for the complexity of the research subject and the approach to which the defined steps were delegated, the preliminary search on the most up-to-date academic papers on the subject, the only necessary number of collected sources and classes, the sense-making in implementing the steps, and the adaptation to longer essays, theses, or to prepare the foundation of research proposals.

Writing, Supported by a Collection of Student Materials There can be research themes that may seem to be odd or alien for the first sight, hence they can discourage potential authors from further work. For many of our students in 2018, in the Institute of World Economy, that was digitalisation. However, as a research topic it appears at three levels: micro, mezzo and macro, and tends to become a grand theory by being a current transformational process that has expanded on all levels and dimensions that construct our reality; so it cannot be disregarded. Therefore, the aim of the study was to conceptualise a 4+1step technique that help to make a choice on the research topic under or not a given theme and to justify that choice with the attributes of a good topic; then to explain the rule of thumbs for giving a scientific title and keywords, and writing an abstract. Finally, as examples it presented a collection of student materials from the Research Methods course of the Institute. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS MULTIDISCIPLINARY DOCTORAL SCHOOL 203 in the new phase of globalisation that had determinative impacts on the society, economy and geopolitics by Mihály Simai and Péter Gál (2018), 2 which was supported by Tibor Palánkai and István Magas-as well as by the entire staff-at an informal meeting of the Institute of World Economy. With precedents in recognising global changes and trends, as well as paradigm shifts, 3 with their systematic view on the question, the authors outlined Hungary's chances, opportunities and duties for the innovative development in their working document, and chose the digitalisation as a priority research topic for our institute. Similarly, so at a micro level last year, the Corvinus University of Budapest (2018) set the theme of "Society and Technology" 4 for the programme series titled as "Celebration of Hungarian Science at the 70 years old Közgáz", 5 which was organised around the impact of digital transformation on the society and economy. Herein, the digitalisation was approached by several aspects from (design) communication, media and marketing through organisational behaviour, mobility, tourism, taxation to industry, business (economics) and management. The round tables and conferences discussed the possible social, economic and communication-related impacts of digitalisation, particularly on generations and on intergenerational communication; the available digital tools, techniques and platforms to make the environment and the society more viable; the opportunities for using digital technologies in business training; the digitalisation of transport, the digital solutions for user experience and how mobility could be integrated into digital marketing communications for tourist destinations. At several points of the celebration, the digitalisation was regarded as a 21 st century process that challenged our world, where the digital technologies were shaping and transforming the different human structures, including e.g. planning and presenting design, mobility and tourism experience. T...

The self-fulfilling prophecy is a ubiquitous concept with a large amount of research to date, characterised by disciplinary diversity and thus a potential plurality in its narrative. A meta-narrative review was implemented to analyse the narratives of self-fulfilling prophecy in the different research areas. It identified 10 research areas, 22 themes and 7 subthemes where the phenomenon was adopted to describe and explain phenomena/events/outcomes. It revealed the self-fulfilling prophecy’s meta-narrative in the separate areas and in overall, compared to the original notion, and with regard to the critics. And it set up methodological and research area-related boundaries to implementation. Finally, the paper provided suggestions to future researches on internal validity and on the configuration of trending topics as the self-fulfilling prophecy.

Theoretical corpus or body refers to the theory gathered on an issue, topic or subject. Despite having generalisable findings on the theoretical corpus and the scientific work with it daily in all disciplines, there is a lack of guidance on how to build it up. Therefore, the research objective was to provide a methodological perspective on its construction through an empirical subject with the aim of identifying the problems and gaps within the corpus. As case study, the Pygmalion effect at work was chosen, since it was a complex phenomenon with a long, extensive and intensive research history. Five steps were implemented to follow: text database, literature review technique(s), corpus overview, theoretical corpus, research problems and gaps. For the chosen subject, the methodological review technique was applied, that helped to identify six research problems and gaps (i.e. availability, trust, harm, research objects, settings, naturalness) on the angles of phenomenon limitations and ethical questions. As a response to these, it presented the author’s own arguments and claims that led the trajectory of the paper. Parallel to the case study, the research in experimental psychology was also introduced for better understanding. Finally, the paper gave methodological suggestions on how to construct a theoretical corpus in general. = Az elméleti korpusz vagy test egy adott ügyben, témában vagy tárgyban összegyűlt elméletanyagra utal. Bár az elméleti korpuszról és a hozzá kapcsolódó, napi szintű, valamennyi tudományterületen zajló munkáról általánosítható megállapítások tehetők, mégis hiányzik az útmutatás a szakszerű felépítéséhez. Ekképpen a kutatás célja az volt, hogy egyfajta módszertani nézőpontot nyújtson az elméleti korpusz felépítéséhez, egy empirikus kutatási alanyon keresztül, és azért, hogy azonosítsa a korpuszban megtalálható kutatási problémákat és réseket. Esettanulmányként a munkahelyi Pygmalion-hatásra esett a választás, amely egy komplex jelenség, hosszúra nyúló, extenzív és intenzív kutatási előzményekkel. A cél érdekében öt módszertani lépést vezettem be: szövegadatbázis elkészítése, szakirodalmi áttekintő technika kiválasztása és alkalmazása, korpusz áttekintése, elméleti korpusz kidolgozása, kutatási problémák és rések azonosítása. A választott alanyhoz módszertani áttekintő technikát alkalmaztam, amely elősegítette a hat kutatási probléma és rés (úgymint elérhetőség, bizalom, sérelem, kutatási tárgy, helyzet, természetesség) azonosítását a jelenség korlátai és etikai kérdései mentén. Ezekre válaszul vagy megoldási javaslatként jelentek meg a szerző saját érveit és állításai, amelyek egyben a cikk ívét is vezették. Az esettanulmánnyal párhuzamosan a kísérleti pszichológiában végzett kutatások alapjai is bemutatásra kerültek az alany jobb megértése érdekében. Végül pedig, a cikk módszertani javaslatokat fogalmazott meg az elméleti korpusz általános felépítésére vonatkozóan.

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