Quantitative And Qualitative Research

FEMALE ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY IN THE TEXTILE INDUSTRY

Keywords: female entrepreneurship, economic opportunity, textile industry.

1. INTRODUCTION

The significance of entrepreneurship has been generally acknowledged as one of the essential factors that determine the growth of numerous industries of a country. An entrepreneur is an individual who identifies opportunity, organizes, operates, and assumes the risk for a business venture (Nieman, 2001:57). Being an entrepreneur is a very challenging job that requires knowledge, intuition and skills. The entrepreneur creates a business to generate value, whether value can mean a financial, social or emotional outcome (Kao, Kao & Kao, 2002:42).

Entrepreneurship plays a vital role

RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODOLOGY

In education and other social sciences, the research methods are frequently divided into two classifications, namely quantitative and qualitative research methods (Creswell & Clark, 2011:2). Holland and Campbell (2005:2) explain that the quantitative research method produces data in the form of numbers, whereas the qualitative research method tends to produce data in text form.

For the purpose this study, qualitative research method will be used to analyse data from direct fieldwork observations, in-depth, open-ended interviews, and written documents in order to gain a deeper understanding of the topic. It is considered by its purposes, which relate to understand some aspect of social life, and its methods which (in general) generate words, as data for analysis. The choice of the qualitative research method is based upon Burrell and Morgan (1979:21)’s four sociological paradigms and organizational analysis. The authors argue that the four distinct sociological paradigms can be utilised for the analysis of wide range of social theories. The relationship between these paradigms, which we describe as radical humanism, radical structuralism, interpretive and functionalist is illustrated in Figure

This is the dominant paradigm for organizational study. It seeks to provide rational explanations of human affairs.

Given the view of social reality, the research design of this study tends to fall under the interpretive paradigm, as it is subjective and seeks to explain the stability of behaviour from female entrepreneurs’ viewpoint in the textile industry. In terms of analytical diagram it is supported by an involvement with issues relating to the nature of the status quo, social order, consensus, social integration and cohesion, solidarity and actuality.

4.1 Literature review A literature review is a text of scholar documents, which comprises the existing knowledge including substantive findings, as well as theoretical and methodological contributions to a particular topic (Baker, 2000:220). In the context of this study, the systematic literature review provides a background to the study being proposed. Kitchenham (2004:1) define systematic literature review as a means of identifying, evaluating and interpreting all available research relevant to a particular research question, or topic area, or phenomenon of interest. Briner and Denyer (2010:11) share this view, adding that systematic reviews are conducted according to a system or method which is designed in relation to and specifically to address