Dept. of Construction Economics and Management course

This course covers the following: ontology and epistemology (positivism, critical realism, constructivism, pragmatism); theory in knowledge production; research approaches (deductive, inductive, retroductive, abductive); research strategies (experiment, survey, case study, action research, grounded theory, ethnography, archival research); research choices (quantitative, qualitative, mixed methods); research design; data collection, analysis and reporting; and ethics issues.