DBA Doctor of Business Administration MCQ 5

Question 1

In qualitative research, 'member checking' is a validity strategy that involves:

Accepted Answer

Sharing findings or interpretations with participants to confirm accuracy

Answer

Member checking enhances credibility by returning interpretations to research participants to verify they accurately reflect their experiences.

Question 2

The concept of 'absorptive capacity' developed by Cohen and Levinthal refers to a firm's ability to:

Accepted Answer

Recognize, assimilate, and apply externally sourced knowledge

Answer

Absorptive capacity describes a firm's prior knowledge base that enables it to identify valuable external information and integrate it into operations.

Question 3

A DBA practitioner-researcher studying their own organization must address which primary ethical concern unique to insider research?

Accepted Answer

Managing dual roles and power dynamics that may compromise participant autonomy

Answer

Insider researchers must carefully manage conflicts between their organizational authority and the voluntary, uncoerced participation of research subjects.

Question 4

Which growth strategy on the Ansoff Matrix carries the highest risk because it involves both new products and new markets?

Accepted Answer

Diversification

Answer

Diversification is the riskiest Ansoff quadrant because the firm operates in unfamiliar territory on both the product and market dimensions simultaneously.

Question 5

In corporate finance, the concept of 'real options' extends traditional NPV analysis by recognizing that managerial flexibility to:

Accepted Answer

Delay, expand, contract, or abandon projects has quantifiable value

Answer

Real options analysis values managerial decision rights embedded in capital projects, capturing value that static NPV calculations miss.

DBA - Doctor of Business Administration Practice Test

DBA - Doctor of Business Administration Practice Test

DBA Doctor of Business Administration MCQ 5