Research Process Paper

Research Process Paper

Previous Findings

Last week Team B detailed a research plan to explore increasing the cell phone market in Iraq. As we observed there are many issues that must be overcome to fully capitalize on the opportunity available in the mobile market. We identified some dependent and independent variables relevant in the Middle East as it relates to the high rate of illiteracy and how that affects the opportunity to market cell phones.

We acknowledged that there could be three different outcomes from our research study. Those would be that there would be no efforts to branch sales to Iraq, or that there would be a limited push on sales, and finally that there would be an extensive push to expand in Iraq.

Our dependent variable of primary interest in this study is the literacy rate of the Middle East and its effects on cell phone usage. We identified an independent variable is the culture of the Middle East. The culture works against the increase in literacy and cell phone use by women is strictly prohibited.

Introduction

Team B will further map our research criteria by reviewing more data, defining our primary sample size and we will display our data and discuss ethical concerns.

Review of Literature

Team B has picked four journal articles to help with their research efforts. The peer-reviewed articles will help us understand what the wants and needs for cell phone uses are in the Middle East. Literature reviews will examine how the activity has helped to introduce the subject of study, identify the research question, and build on previous research to offer the bias to get to the next steps of theoretical framework and hypotheses development (Sekaran, 2003).

In the article, Cellular Telephones in the Israeli Market: The demand, the choice of provider and potential revenue; it states that the study presents the methodology, the estimates and a scenario for forecasting the demand for cellular telephones and their use in...