Conceptual Frameworks

Identify a research

idea

Review related literature and do exploratory interviews

Formulate an initial research problem

The Research Process

:

Finalize research problem

Formulate research

objectives/ hypotheses

Establish conceptual framework

Initial Phase:

Conceptual framework

• It is a complete presentation of the variables to be observed in the current study.

• It is the ideas defined in a way the researcher wants.

• It is understood in the current research, the operationalization of the variables-concepts, the visible indicators or the variables-concepts, the scheme of measuring the variables.

• It focuses on the specific stipulative and operational definition of concepts and variables with respect to the particular research problem

Philippine Statistics Authority

http://www.nscb.gov.ph/poverty/portal_/conceptual.asp

AICPA Conceptual Framework Approach

http://www.aicpa.org/interestareas/professionalethics/com

munity/pages/aicpa-conceptual-framework.aspx

• Under the conceptual framework approach, users follow the following steps:

• Step 1 Identify threats to compliance with the rules. If no threats, then proceed with service. If threats are identified, then must proceed to Step 2.

• Step 2 Evaluate the significance of the threats to determine whether the threats are at an acceptable level. If threats are at an acceptable level, then proceed with service. If threats are not at an acceptable level, then must proceed to Step 3.

• Step 3 Identify safeguards that can be applied. Safeguards can be existing safeguards or new safeguards.

• Step 4 Evaluate the safeguards to determine if they eliminate or reduce threats to an acceptable level. Where you conclude that threats are at an acceptable level after applying safeguards, proceed with service. In some cases, an identified threat may be so significant that no safeguards will eliminate it or reduce it to an acceptable level, or you may be unable to implement effective safeguards. Under such circumstances, providing the specific professional services would compromise your compliance with the rules, and you would need to determine whether to decline or discontinue the professional services or resign from the engagement

AICPA Conceptual Framework Approach

By: Anthony M. Wanjohi

http://www.kenpro.org/tag/sample-conceptual-framework/

The effects of employee competencies and IT

applications on operations strategy: an empirical

study of retail firms in China

Wantao Yu (Senior Lecturer in Operations Management at the School of Applied

Management & Law, Buckinghamshire New University, High Wycombe,

UK), Ramakrishnan Ramanathan, (Professor at Nottingham University

Business School, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK)

http://www.ibimapublishing.com/journals/J

MRCS/2011/440964/440964.html

Uchenna Cyril Eze, (School of Business, Monash University, Sunway, Malaysia), Gerald Guan Gan Goh, (Faculty of Business, Multimedia University, Melaka, Malaysia), Choon Yih Goh, (Faculty of Business, Multimedia University, Melaka, Malaysia), Tiong Ling Tan, (Faculty of Business, Multimedia University, Melaka, Malaysia)

Perspectives of SMEs on

knowledge sharing

An Input-Process-Output Structural

Framework

for Evaluating Web-based Instruction

Chong Ho Yu, Ph.D

Concept of teacher effectiveness

by Raj Parihar in Nursing, Nursing Education

Prof. Phil Koopman

Jung-Lang Cheng, (Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Cheng-Shiu University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan)

Implementing Six Sigma via TQM

improvement: an empirical study in Taiwan

Conceptual

Designs for

MME