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15. _______ must also carefully choose the target population from which they wish to collect data, and a _______strategy to select a sample from that population.

16. For instance, should they survey individuals or firms or workgroups within firms? What types of individuals or firms they wish to target? _______ _______ is closely related to the unit of analysis in a research problem.

17. At this stage, it is often a good idea to write a _______  _______detailing all of the decisions made in the preceding stages of the research process and the rationale behind each decision.

This _______ _______ should address what research questions you wish to study and why, the prior state of knowledge in this area, theories you wish to employ along with hypotheses to be tested, how to measure constructs, what research method to be employed and why, and desired sampling strategy.

18. Having decided who to study (subjects), what to measure (concepts), and how to collect  data (research method), the researcher is now ready to proceed to the _______ _______ phase. This includes pilot testing the measurement instruments, data collection, and data  analysis.

19. _______ _______ is an often overlooked but extremely important part of the research process.

 It helps detect potential problems in your research design and/or instrumentation

(e.g., whether the questions asked is intelligible to the targeted sample), and to ensure that the  measurement instruments used in the study are reliable and valid measures of the constructs of  interest.

20. Depending on the type of data collected (quantitative or qualitative), _______ _______ may be quantitative (e.g., employ statistical techniques such as regression or structural equation modeling) or qualitative (e.g., coding or content analysis).

21. The final phase of research involves preparing the final _______ _______ documenting the entire research process and its findings in the form of a research paper, dissertation, or monograph. This report should outline in detail all the choices made during the research process (e.g., theory used, constructs selected, measures used, research methods, sampling, etc.) and why, as well as the outcomes of each phase of the research process.