Research Problem Clause Examples
The 'Research Problem' clause defines the specific issue, question, or area of inquiry that a research project aims to address. It typically outlines the context and scope of the problem, providing background information and clarifying the objectives of the research. By clearly articulating the research problem, this clause ensures that all parties have a shared understanding of the project's focus, thereby guiding the direction of the research and preventing misunderstandings about its purpose.
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Research Problem. Strategic alliances are formed by organizations and institutions to either exploit current resources and competencies or to explore new possibilities. Organizations seek to fully exploit the opportunities open to them so as to enjoy competitive advantage. For them to do that they must have ability to conceive, shape and sustain a wide variety of strategic partnerships (Doz & ▇▇▇▇▇, 1998). Economic theory view the expansion of business activity beyond the traditional boundary of the firm as motivated by the pursuit of product, rationalization, economics of scale, vertical linkages, and risk sharing (contractors and Lorange, 1988, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ and ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, 1996). The resources based view postulates that competitive advantages comes from having unique resources that create value in the market place (▇.▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ and ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, 1996; ▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇ and Shuen 1997). Learning theory researchers have argued that firm form strategic alliances as a means of learning and expanding their knowledge and competence base (e.g., ▇▇▇▇▇ 1988a; ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇ and ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, 1996, Inkpen 1998, 2000a, b). In the recent past, higher education sector in Kenya has experienced some dynamic change in the external environment as observed also by Mutua (2004). ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ University of Agriculture and Technology is collaborating with thirty middle level colleges in the domestic market. Several studies have been done on strategic alliances but very little in the education and training sector. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ et al. (2005), studied strategic alliances in education and training services in Australia. They concentrated on strategic alliances prompted by globalization and need for internationalization, while they ignored strategic alliances formed in the domestic market in the same sector. This study sheds some light on strategic alliances formed between ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) and middle level colleges in the domestic market. The study seeks to answer the following questions: What strategic motives drove JKUAT into forming strategic alliances with middle level colleges in Kenya? And, what key challenges are encountered by JKUAT in the management of the alliances.
Research Problem. The research problem lies in knowing and identifying the extent of the conflict between the conditions for environmental protection in Egypt, like other developing countries, with the standards of the World Trade Organization agreement. It is well known that most environmental agreements limit the freedom of trade exchange between countries because they aim to protect the environment, in addition to identifying the most important environmental impacts of implementing the WTO agreement represented in the development gap between developed and developing countries as a result of removing many customs restrictions and abolishing the quantitative quota system, and the inclusion of this environmental standard as a vital criterion in global trade.
Research Problem. An increase in access to affordable financial services to all Kenyans, particularly the poor is part and parcel of this development strategy. With the use of strategic partnerships between the telecommunication sector and the banking sector it is expected that there will be an increase in the accessibility of financial services and a reduction in transaction cost (Okiro, 2014). According to ▇▇▇▇▇ (2014), 59% of the adult population was found to be either completely excluded or utilizing informal methods. These figures have certainly changed over the past few years as the uptake of mobile money has exponentially grown. There is a growing body of knowledge demonstrating that an increase in access to formal financial services has the potential of moving people out of their poverty trap. However, despite the popularity and advantages associated with strategic alliances that have seen many banks rush to form strategic alliances, few have succeeded (Warui, 2014). It has been projected that the failure rate of strategic alliances could be as high as 70%. ▇▇▇▇▇ and Amit, (2005) have shown that between 30% and 70% of alliances fail, they neither meet the goals of their parent companies nor deliver on the operational or strategic benefits they purport to provide. The success of mobile phone money transfer systems in the Kenya led to a situation where many Kenyan banks considered mobile phone companies a threat to their business, despite the fact that mobile phone services did not act as a bank, nor did they store any received funds within the company but deposited them into a conventional banks. In the recent past research studies on strategic alliances and convergence have been on the increase both globally and locally. In the United States, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ (2011) did a study on the emerging patterns in global telecommunications alliances and mergers. In India, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ (2013) strategic alliance in India under globalized economic scenario and in Germany, ▇▇▇▇▇ and ▇▇▇▇▇▇ (2002) conducted a study on the effects of convergence on internationalization and the changing distribution of net value added in large German firms. In Kenya, ▇▇▇▇▇ (2012) did a study on the risk factors influencing the survival of strategic alliances in Kenya; Various studies have been conducted in the banking industry in relation on mobile banking in Kenya. For instance, ▇▇▇▇▇ and ▇▇▇▇▇▇ (2013) did a study on the effect of innovation strategy on performance of commercial banks in Kenya; Bor (2014) di...
Research Problem. Definition
Research Problem. To summarise, entities in large scale distributed systems are often linked by an organi- sational structure, but this structure can become obsolete as the environment changes. For such structures to be effective, links between entities must be changed at run time according to changes in the environment; for these changes to be effective at any scale, the structure cannot be controlled centrally but, instead, individual entities must con- trol their own links, so that the overall structure of an organisation emerges from their individual actions. However, in the case of systems with pre-determined (and required) organisational struc- ture, such as the telecommunications network example above, where there are particular structural constraints (in this example in the form of a hierarchy), it is not clear that traditional approaches to self-organisation and emergence will be adequate. Instead, we need new mechanisms that will allow bottom-up reorganisation in an emergent fashion while at the same time preserving the required structural constraints. This is the focus of this thesis. The aim of this thesis is thus to develop techniques for self-organisation of distributed systems while, maintaining particular structural constraints. More specifically, the thesis seeks to: • provide an analysis of different organisation structures and their impact on service location; • develop techniques for adapting structure to improve service location; and • extend such techniques so that service location can be improved while at the same time preserving important (and in some cases fundamental) structural constraints. By developing approaches to improve service location in distributed systems and, in par- ticular, extending each technique to preserve structural constraints, we hope to enable systems, such as our telecommunications networks example, to make use of reorganisa- tion approaches that would otherwise violate these constraints.
Research Problem. As mentioned in the introduction, there is a scarce amount of SCM literature on how IT affects the SCM concept (Hannås, 2007). ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ et al (2008) carried out a comprehensive study to develop a conceptual framework which could be used to identify gaps in the SCM literature and indicate in what direction future research should take. Their analysis comprised the nine most popular and well-known relevant academic journals within the field, and by drawing from a pool of 405 articles they identified a number of different subjects investigated within the SCM literature the last decade. Table 1 represents their findings in categories together with a short description, as well as a percentage. The percentage indicates how many articles that fall into the respective category between 1997 and 2006. In other words, the percentage indicates how much each of the categories and subjects has been studied within SCM literature since the concept started receiving academic attention.
Research Problem. Based on the background above, the problem that can be identified in this research are :
1. How are the sudents willingness to communicare in English language at MTs 8 N Muaro Jambi?
2. What are the factors which affect the students’ willingness to communicate in English language at MTs 8 N Muaro Jambi?
Research Problem. A review of the situation shows that little has been done to investigate bullying within the gifted population of students. There is a stereotype that students, who are strong academically, tend not to be bullies (▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ & ▇▇▇, 2006). There is a possibility that it is because the studies conducted focused on the problem of bullying in an environment where those children, who are identified as gifted, and those, who are not, study together, so this group has not been looked at separately (▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ & ▇▇▇, 2006). There are different classifications of the bullying behavior with several categories. Olweus (1994) divides school bullying into two major types: direct, which involves direct physical attacks or threats and indirect, which is characterized by exclusion from groups and social alienation. Sub-types include but not limited to physical bullying, verbal aggression, relational or social bullying, cyber or electronic bullying; some researchers specify psychological bullying (▇▇▇▇▇▇ et al., 2008; ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ et al., 2001; ▇▇▇▇▇▇, 1994). With this in mind, the present study will focus on four types of bullying: physical, verbal, relational and cyber (PVRC) among 12th grade students both inside and outside classrooms at a school, which serves gifted and talented students in Kazakhstan.
Research Problem. The issues of security and safety in Air Transportation are not compromised. Indeed, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) in its Oversight Audit Function ensures that Standards and Recommended Practices (SARPs) are maintained worldwide. Real pain or loss are experienced by Nigerians when prominent persons in the society, loved ones and bread winners are killed in gruesome accidents while using air transportation, acclaimed the world over as the safest of all modes. There exist, both within the industry and among the lay public the general opinion that safety levels have declined in recent years. One can recall the crash of the Air Force plane that killed a generation of military officers that were on course at the Command and Staff College, ▇▇▇▇ in September 1993. Also in November 1996, twenty-seven years after the VC 10 crash, another aircraft approaching Lagos ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ International Airport crashed into the Lagoon at Ejinrin, with the loss of the aircraft, a Boeing 727, operated by ADC Airline Plc with registration number 5N-BBN killing all 145 souls on Board. There was also recently the Kano air disaster that killed a number of people including a Minister of Sports and Youths Development. The event of September 11 in the United States of America is also an example of the psychological impact of catastrophic events that aviation incident and/or accident can herald. In all these, how has the Government and the Aviation parastatals – both the regulatory and service providers contributed to the declining state of safety, security and efficiency in the aviation transport sector? The Nigerian Airways is comatose with no aircraft on ground and even the few African countries with national carriers lack the resources especially technical and personnel capabilities to withstand fierce competition to be heralded by full liberalization or ‘Open Skies’. The poor state of aviation infrastructure in Africa is definitely a problem. Indeed, would enough time not be required by African countries to develop strategic options and action plans to improve air navigation services and airport infrastructure to make them able to meet safety standards and to respond to Liberalization? The problem of poor funding and the inability of the African airlines to attract international fund agencies have to be addressed. Should mergers or alliances by these airlines not strengthen their ability to compete with mega carriers of the advanced countries? In Nigeria, ...
Research Problem. The service providers do their best to meet the Service Level Targets (SLT) and be green in all metrics stated in SLA. However that does not always lead to customer satisfaction. Sometimes the provider fulfills all the targets defined in the SLA but does not really deliver any added value to the customer’s business and, therefore, the customer satisfaction is not met. In better words, as ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ et al. (2010) described, the customer does not get what they pay for or they pay for getting the wrong object. As such, the need for an agreement that can characterize deliverable added values to a customer is evident. Moreover, perceived risk in organizational purchasing decisions is consisted of two factors of purchase importance and uncertainty of outcome upon purchase (▇▇▇▇▇▇ et al., 1991 and ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ et al., 1993 cited in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ and ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, 2004). According to ▇▇▇▇▇ et al. (2007 cited in ▇▇▇▇▇ et al., 2009) there is a need for techniques “to negotiate benefit-cost-risk sharing among stakeholders”. The need for decreasing the formerly mentioned uncertainty of a contract in addition to description of benefit-risk sharing would bring forth necessity of guaranteeing the values of an offered service. Besides, based on ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ et al. (2000 cited in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ and ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, 2004), managers do not see values and costs as same entities. While the costs are to be measured by the means of SLA, the need for a framework that renders the quality and quantity of values can be felt by suppliers as well as customers in the outsourcing market. Such an agreement can be called Service Value Agreement (SVA).