Deck 23: Documents As Sources of Data

Question 1

Which of the following is not a criteria for assessing the quality of documents?

A) Authenticity
B) Replicability
C) Representativeness
D) Meaning

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Personal documents such as diaries and letters can be used as data within a qualitative study.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Representativeness is generally not an additional concern for personal documents.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

In case study and ethnographic research, documents can provide the researcher with valuable background information about the company and its history.

Question 5

Issues of authenticity and ______________ are particularly important when using documents accessed online

A) Credibility
B) Representativeness

Question 6

Newspapers and magazines are generally not used for business or management research as they are not considered specialist enough.

Question 7

Authenticity issues are often easier to assess in the case of media outputs.

Question 8

Treating documents as texts implies a more objectivist ontological approach.

Question 9

According to Atkinson and Coffey (2004), documents should be viewed as a distinct level of ___________ in their own right

A) Reality
B) Discourse

Question 10

The interconnectedness of documents is referred to as:

A) Interdiscursivity
B) Polyvalence
C) Intertextuality
D) Interdisciplinary

Question 11

In reading documents as texts, there is a clear reality waiting to be discovered.

Question 12

Which of the following is not a method for interpreting documents qualitatively?

A) Semiotics
B) Qualitative content analysis
C) Regression analysis
D) Historical analysis

Question 13

What does the acronym "ECA" refer to?

A) Ethnocentric cultural analysis
B) Ethnographic content analysis
C) Ethnomethodological covert analysis
D) Ecological cultural analysis

Question 14

A criticism levelled at business research is that it is overly realist, possibly empiricist, and suffers from myopic fact-collecting without an appropriate methodology

Question 15

There are some colonizing practices on which certain archives were founded that researchers need to be cognizant of.