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Privatization in Developing Countries

In research work, the adoption of an appropriate methodology is of great importance because the
authenticity and effectiveness of a research totally depend upon the appropriateness of the
researchers choice of methods for data collection. There are a number of methodologies
available that has been used by researchers for years, however; one cannot use a single
methodology for two different natures of researches. Prior to choosing a research methodology,
it is important to fully understand the nature, object and scope of inquiry. For less popular and
new research topics, it is important to use primary data collection methods because in such cases,
secondary data collection methods are just a waste of time and resources. For popular topics on
which research work has been done by others, both primary and secondary methods are good to
use, however, secondary methods are the appropriate one (Creswell, 2002). The selection of a
particular method does affect a research work in a positive or negative manner. Therefore, every
researcher should have full awareness about the pros and cons of each methodology.

As it is discussed above that for choosing a methodology for data collection, the researcher must
know what his/her research type is. For instance, we have a topic of privatization in developing
countries and our chosen company and country are Zain Company and Kuwait respectively. Zain
Company is a private telecom company in Kuwait therefore, it is hard to find any sort of
secondary data to complete our research on this topic and company. Although, we have access to
secondary data on the topic of privatization in developing countries, however, it is hard to find
secondary information on my chosen country and company. For the successful execution of our
research we have opted for primary data collection methods and our proposed methods are
interviews and surveys. Our main focus of the research on this particular topic is to find the
answer to the question do the private sector was able to managed the telecom sector?

This is something very particular to a single country and to a particular business sector therefore
we will make our way through interviews and surveys from the concerned people of the
company and of this particular sector. Interviews and surveys help a person to gather first hand
data that may be published by an organization for its personal use or can be gathered by asking
frequent questions from concern people (Flick, 2011). In our data collection, Dr. Saad Albarrak
and Undersecretary of the Ministry of Statistics will help us. For surveys and interviews one can
use an open interview method or a focus group approach. We would use both methods in our
research, but we prefer to use open interview approach because focus groups have almost
common and structured information from limited resources. It is good to avoid focus group
because focus groups usually never share their feelings and opinions openly, they may not
respond quickly and they may feel uneasy to a certain topic that is important enough for a
researcher (Gill, 2008).

We have divided our methodology in three sections: gathering general data through secondary
means about the topic, conducting informal open interviews and to arrange meetings with a few
focus groups. We have almost completed the first part of our research and have gathered
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numerous data, whereas we have a proper plan to follow for the next two parts of the research. In
our first part we have gathered information about privatization in developing countries, its
advantages and disadvantages and privatization in Kuwait. For the next two parts of our research,
we have designed questionnaire for surveys with a sample of 80-100. The reason behind
choosing a relatively large sample size is to have more accuracy in the outcomes of the research.
Studies have shown that a large sample size broaden up the quality of observation and reduces
the effect of outliers. It also reduces the effect of extreme observations and hence the researchers
become able to get more accurate and diverse information (Creswell, 2006).

On our way to complete research while finding answers to the question do the private sector
was able to managed the telecom sector? we will use qualitative interviews. Qualitative
interviews are unstructured and semi-structured interviews that will not only help us in getting a
point of the concern people but will also help us in understanding the social phenomenon. Such
interviews are found helpful in drawing results from conceptualizing the interviews while
considering epistemological and ontological assumption linked with the research interviews
(Kvale & Brinkmann, 2008).
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References
Creswell, J. (2002). Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Method Approaches, 2nd edition. Online:
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Creswell, J. (2006). Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing Among Five Approaches, 2nd edition.
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Kvale, S. & Brinkmann, S. (2008). Interviews: Learning the Craft of Qualitative Research Interviewing, 2nd edition.
Online: SAGE.

Flick, U. (2011). Introducing Research Methodology, Online: SAGE.

Gill, P. & Stewart, K. Treasure, E. & Chadwick, B., Journal, (2008) Methods of Data Collection in Qualitative
Research : Interviews and Focus Groups, Online: Nature