PhD Final Thesis April 2013.pdf - Anglia Ruskin Research Online

Thesis Keith Gale 2013perspective of the group under study are identified through the questionnaires andqualitative statements made by the organisations corporate and operational strategies.Although an apparent relationship exists between qualitative and quantitativeparadigms – projects that achieve success in terms of quality, time or cost(quantitative) are recognised by participants involved with them (qualitative)(Walker, 2011), – triangulation within this research is applied to the qualitativeparadigm by engagement of the literature review, questionnaire survey andinterview. This follows a complementation proposition of two paradigms suggestedMintzberg (1979) where scientific enquiry of outcomes (hard data) is supportedthrough relationships/views (soft data).4.8 Summation of the methodology of this researchRadford and Goldstein (2002) concluded that contextual positioning selected forresearch had to reflect available information and data in order to provide systematicand reliable evidence. For this research, the following contexts are used:• a thorough and critical review of published research into problems withperformance of construction projects from the perspective of public sectorclients.• focus and identification upon an appropriate research question or problemarising from the critical review.• review current professional tacit knowledge about the subject ofperformance and economics relevant to framework agreements. This isparticularly appropriate to Professional Doctorate research, which is practicebased and industry relevant.• collation of published research, theories and practice into a conceptualmodel allowing construction of six appropriate hypotheses.• testing each hypothesis using ‘real world information’ by collecting projectdata, views and documents supported by reference to reliable systems fromtrusted evidenced sources.• presentation of results and conclusions using initial statistical resultsfollowed by recognised statistical tests to reduce errors or chance.90