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Getting in, getting on and getting out: reflections on a qualitative research project
Irvine, Helen; Gaffikin, Michael - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 19 (2006) January, pp. 115-145
Purpose – This paper seeks to provide a behind-the-scenes view of how a qualitative research project was conducted. It is therefore a paper about the process of qualitative research from the point of view of a researcher, rather than a qualitative research paper about an organization....
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The multiple truths about crystal meth among young people entrenched in an urban drug scene: A longitudinal ethnographic investigation
Fast, Danya; Kerr, Thomas; Wood, Evan; Small, Will - In: Social Science & Medicine 110 (2014) C, pp. 41-48
Transitions into more harmful forms of illicit drug use among youth have been identified as important foci for research and intervention. In settings around the world, the transition to crystal methamphetamine (meth) use among youth is considered a particularly dangerous and growing problem....
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A health equity critique of social marketing: Where interventions have impact but insufficient reach
Langford, Rebecca; Panter-Brick, Catherine - In: Social Science & Medicine 83 (2013) C, pp. 133-141
Health interventions increasingly rely on formative qualitative research and social marketing techniques to effect behavioural change. Few studies, however, incorporate qualitative research into the process of program evaluation to understand both impact and reach: namely, to what extent...
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Hypermedia and Ethnography: Reflections on the Construction of a Research Approach
Dicks, Bella; Mason, Bruce - In: Sociological Research Online 3 (1998) 3, pp. 3-3
Current interest in ethnography within social research has focused on its potential to offer insights into the … complexity of the social world. There have increasingly been calls for ethnography to reflect this complexity more adequately … of ethnography's object of study and its mode of presentation. Both of these areas are implicated in the recent attention …
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Integrating survey and ethnographic methods to evaluate conditional cash transfer programs:
Adato, Michelle - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008
"Survey and ethnographic methods have been combined in the evaluations of conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs for the governments of Nicaragua and Turkey. This paper describes the quantitative and qualitative research designs for these evaluations, discusses the relative benefits of...
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Food safety regulation and small processing: A case study of interactions between processors and inspectors
Buckley, Jenifer A. - In: Food Policy 51 (2015) C, pp. 74-82
As interest in small-scale food processing increases, so does interest in assuring that food safety regulations accommodate rather than hinder small processors. Some practitioners and advocates charge that regulations are unfairly slanted against smaller producers and favor large food...
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An empirical research of the factors determining customer behaviour in food retail stores
Lehota, Jozsef; Horvath, Agnes; Gyenge, Balazs - In: Studies in Agricultural Economics (2007) 105
For years the Institute of Marketing at Szent István University has been conducting research in customer and consumer behaviour. This research project focuses on which food shops retail customers choose when it comes to traditional food. This paper briefly summarizes qualitative findings and...
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Networking and innovation within the ornamental plant sector
Lambrecht, Evelien; Taragola, Nicole; Kühne, Bianka; … - In: Agricultural and Food Economics 3 (2015) 1, pp. 1-20
<Para ID="Par1">The ornamental plant cultivation could benefit from networking, as the locus of innovation is no longer the individual farm, but increasingly the network within which the farm is embedded. The main contribution of this paper is to shed light on the relation between networking and innovation and...</para>
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COMPETITIVENESS OF OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY IN THE REPUBLIC OF TATARSTAN: SOCIOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION
РАШИТОВИЧ, САФИУЛЛИН МАРАТ; … - In: ВЕСТНИК САРАТОВСКОГО … (2013) 3, pp. 92-95
В статье дается описание методологии и результатов пилотного социологического исследования по экспертной оценке конкурентоспособности нефтегазового...
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ДЕМОГРАФИЧЕСКИЙ КАРКАС ИНДУСТРИАЛЬНО-ПРОМЫШЛЕННОГО РАЗВИТИЯ РЕГИОНОВ ПРИВОЛЖСКОГО ФЕДЕРАЛЬНОГО ОКРУГА: ЭВОЛЮЦИЯ, ВОЗМОЖНОСТИ, ОГРАНИЧЕНИЯ...
РАШИТОВИЧ, САФИУЛЛИН МАРАТ; … - In: ВЕСТНИК САРАТОВСКОГО … (2013) 3, pp. 95-98
В статье дается описание методологии и результатов пилотного социологического исследования по экспертной оценке конкурентоспособности нефтегазового...
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