When Researchers Should Stop Researching? An Exploratory Study
| Type of publication: | Inproceedings |
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| Year: | 2024 |
| Month: | September |
| Publisher: | ENTerprise REsearch InNOVAtion Conference - ENTRENOVA |
| Location: | Dubrovnik, Croatia |
| URL: | https://drive.google.com/file/... |
| Abstract: | This paper presents a study aimed at defining the limits of research, by asking when a researcher should stop investigating. The question seems obvious at first glance, but our exploratory research shows that the answers vary greatly depending on the context of the research. The learnings from this research are intended to provide food for thought for students, entrepreneurs, and researchers, to shed light on the limits of research, the conditions of validity and the biases limiting the validity of the knowledge creation at the end of research, as well as other characteristics allowing or obliging the researcher to stop. This paper also compares different epistemological approaches to the definition of the term of the knowledge project and its limits. The methods used to answer this question include a purposeful literature review, as well as interviews with selected experts from different research fields such as social sciences, management, business informatics, sociology, geography, engineering, and entrepreneurship, as well as research and development experts in several Swiss SMEs. In conclusion, this paper summarizes what we have learned about the definition of the term "research". |
| Keywords: | Epistemology, Knowledge Validity, Méthodologie, Methodology, Research Limits |
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| Total mark: | 0 |
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