Research Methods and Organization Studies

Tourism and Third Sector Organisations—Strangers or Partners?

“…It presents the initial stage of an exploratory research. 2 The methodology follows a qualitative approach based on semi-structured interviews (Bryman, 1995). The 30 interviews were conducted with the following informants from various public and private sectors operating in the region of the Algarve, Portugal: 1) leaders from third sector (associations and foundations) organisations (n ¼ 12).…”

Educação para a inovação

“…Para Bryman (1995), a pesquisa quantitativa é caracterizada pela formulação de hipóteses com variáveis associadas, a partir de uma dada teoria, que dão possibilidade de mensuração da hipótese. Pode-se chegar ao conhecimento científico também pelo método qualitativo de pesquisa.…”

The RECORD Manual. Benchmarking Innovative Research Organisations in European Accession Countries

“…5 RTDI organisations are specialist providers of R&D and related technology services to both companies and public-sector clients. They view themselves as knowledge organisations dedicated to developing practical solutions to meet industrial and social needs.…”

“…Process benchmarking, the benchmarking type that is most relied on in this Manual, is a systematic comparison of one institution's processes with either some other institutions or some accepted standard (Lundwall-Tomlinson [2001]). This type of benchmarking is based on empirical information that pays attention to processes within organisational contexts (Bryman [1989]). …”