A Quantitative Research Project Proposal

FERNANDO LUZERNO AUGUSTO CARLOS LICHUCHA

This assignment is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for 5502C1514 DCC Quantitative Research Methodology

Assignment Unit 5 - 2

School of Management

Dr. Ted Sun (t.sun@swissmc.ch)

January 14, 2016

Contents

1 Introduction 4

2 Research problem 4

3 Purpose of research 5

4 Significance of research 5

5 Quantitative Research questions and hypotheses 6

6 Population 6

7 Sampling size 7

8 Data collection 7

9 Instrument description, reliability and validation 8

9.1 Instrument description 8

9.2 Instrument Reliability 8

9.3 Instrument Validation 9

9.3.1 Instrument Convergent Validity 10

9.3.2 Discriminant Validity or divergent validity 11

10 Statistical analysis methods 12

10.1 Descriptive statistics 12

10.2 Correlation 13

10.3 Comparative financial statement analysis 14

10.4 Regression 14

11 References 15

12 Appendix 1 - (Questionnaire) 18

List of Figures

Figure 1 Chronbach’s alphaby calculations 9

Figure 2 Convergent validity of Net Sales construct using mean, standard deviation and standardized loadings 10

Figure 3 Convergent validity of Net Sales construct using correlation 10

Figure 4 Raw data organized using Cross-tabulation 12

Figure 5 Mean, standard deviation, and mean differences 12

Figure 6 Correlations 13

Figure 7 Example of year-to-year change analysis 14

Figure 8 Example of index-number trend analysis 14

List of Tables

Table 1 Means and Standard Deviations for the three constructs (N=35) 9

Table 2 discriminant validity of Net Sales construct measurement variables 11

Table 3 Assessment of Discriminant Validity of the Constructs 11

Introduction

This assignment presents a quantitative research project proposal to study the effects of changes of costs and volume on two Mozambican companies’ profits: Cervejas de Moçambique and Telecomunicações de Moçambique from 2005 to 2013.

The assignment...