QUOTE(Critical_Fallacy @ Jun 18 2013, 07:17 PM)
(2) It is claimed that Malaysians in general are inclined to refuse participation in social science related research. On this view, if the case studies are conducted with Malaysian-based organizations, the quality of the research may be dubious or even questionable by the panel.
(3) As sometimes the target subjects of experiment may not have the proper participative behaviour, it may be necessary to modify the research design. This can be doneĀ by introducing a component to the social research with a proper configuration. And this procedure is sometimes known as compensation to human research subjects.
(4) However, the usual compensation schemes are not capable of satisfying all specifications at the same time; only circumventing certain issues because some are contradictory to each other. Therefore, two elements in the research must be balanced: (i) performance and (ii) robustness. All in all, you may need to rely on the minimization of cost criteria.
Perhaps there is something Malaysian social scientists can cooperate to solve. Where do you think the problems might break down? And
how do you feel we should explore the causes of behavior?
To solve no. 2, one should compare the difference between early respondents and late respondents for surveys as suggested by Oppenheim (1966) to assess non-response bias because late respondents are deemed similar to those who did not respond. If there is no significant difference between early respondents and late respondents, then there is no non-response bias. The quality of the research should then not be called into question.
In the case of a business case study, I can't comment because I've never dealt with such inductive case study research.
Apparently, researchers have encouraged the use of incentives to increase response rates as it will bring those who are not interested to answer the survey as well and most importantly, to reduce non-response bias. The literature have supported the use of incentives and incentive does not cause bias in the responses (Hansen, 1980; Mizes et al., 1984)
This post has been edited by Blofeld: Jun 19 2013, 07:56 PM