IQA: Qualitative research to discover how and why students learn from economic games

Davis, Jason Stratton

doi:10.1016/j.iree.2019.100160

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“…Participants generate, analyze, and interpret their own data and the researcher guides them through the process. This is a mean to promote trustworthiness, dependability, and confirmability in qualitative research, thereby assuring its rigor (Davis, 2019).…”

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“…The epistemological basis of the IQA is social constructivism, based on the premise that people know their world through the social construction of meaning (Davis, 2019). Therefore, participants were asked to induce meaning, then define and refine it, and, finally, deductively investigate the influence relationship between the categories created (Bargate, 2014).…”

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“…The relationship between the categories of the map can then be theorized (Bargate, 2014). The mind map is, in fact, a theory, albeit an endogenous one, as it contains a set of relationships from which testable hypotheses can be deduced (Davis, 2019). Northcutt and McCoy (2004) argue that despite the fact that IQA is "clearly favorable to the theory" (Northcutt & McCoy, 2004, p. 17), this is a theory in the perception of a group about a particular phenomenon, different from theoretical assumptions previously established.…”

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“…Good examples of IQA research reports can be found in Harrel (2004), Robertson (2015), and Davis (2019). The works of Bargate (2014) and Lee and Chen (2016) are more focused on the presentation of the resulting mind maps and not so much on descriptions of affinities and relationships.…”

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Upcoming Issues, New Methods: Using Interactive Qualitative Analysis (IQA) in Management Research

2022

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Objective: this article aims to present interactive qualitative analysis (IQA) as a qualitative strategy to be used in management research, detailing its application. Since the IQA is a strategy derived from research in education, this study discusses the potentialities of its use in management research. Methods: the IQA is presented by the step-by-step application of the method in a research problem in entrepreneurship. Results: the IQA targets the generation of a shared mental map of the focus group members on the phenomenon under study. The data collection and analysis steps are conducted in parallel, and the research participants themselves carry out the first analysis. The results presented in a set of relationships between the elements of the shared mental map are theorized. The inductive character of the initial stages, combined with deductive procedures, allows discovering new ways of thinking about the investigated problems, reinforcing qualitative research’s exploratory character. Conclusions: the replicable data collection and analysis protocol promotes researches’ reliability and validity, by presenting empirical evidences that the interpretations are guaranteed by the data, allowing for methodological and theoretical advances.

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confidence: 99%

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“…This approach which has increased in popularity for teaching and testing the main insights of oligopolistic theories (Hazlett 1997;Emerson and Taylor 2004;Brauer and Delemeester 2001;Lean et al 2006;Durham, McKinnon and Schulman 2007;Tsigaris 2008;Ritterfeld et al 2009;Grant et al 2016;Han & Ryan 2017;Ng 2019;Davis 2019;Race 2020) can be particularly interesting to study network industries (Harker and Freisz 1986;Rauch and Casella 2001;Nagurney et al 2002 andPal and Scrimitore 2016;Bimpikis et al 2019). In this research, we propose the use of a game experiment to understand the decision-making process in liner shipping, where the market is characterized by a limited number of players (4 or 5 strategic alliances) who are competing on interconnected markets and face a problem of over-capacity.…”

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Capacity management by global shipping alliances: findings from a game experiment

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Guillotreau

2021

Marit Econ Logist

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The present article uses game experiments to understand the dynamics of oligopolistic competition in liner shipping markets. We show how a limited number of carriers, interacting over time, acting independently or grouped into global shipping alliances, are able to effectively and jointly reduce excess capacity. A serious game (called TRALIN) has been designed to this end, mimicking the global liner shipping market where four to five global shipping alliances compete on a set of 12 routes, connecting four ports of call for a few sequential voyages. Carriers are initially subject to low profits due to overcapacity and have to anticipate competitor capacity decisions and vessel deployment simultaneously. Results from 18 experimental games with 4644 decisions were collected and statistically analysed to confirm the main tenets of oligopoly theory and to highlight the existence of a learning effect from successive interactions (rounds in games). Our results suggest that a 'coordinated' reduction in capacity is more likely to occur when the number of competitors is limited, but even more when excessive capacity is high, urging the need for cooperation; a learning effect amongst market participants is detected over time. Serious games are flexible tools for improving our understanding of competition, the organization of liner shipping networks, and the role played by global shipping alliances. This tool may help practitioners to understand how over-capacity is evolving within the competitive process, and what factors may influence it. Although voluntarily made simplistic for the purpose of experiments, our design allows one to focus on the main tenets of oligopoly theory as applied to shipping markets.

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Learning with serious games in economics education a systematic review of the effectiveness of game-based learning in upper secondary and higher education

Platz

2022

International Journal of Educational Research

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IQA: Qualitative research to discover how and why students learn from economic games

Cited by 9 publications

References 21 publications

Upcoming Issues, New Methods: Using Interactive Qualitative Analysis (IQA) in Management Research

Upcoming Issues, New Methods: Using Interactive Qualitative Analysis (IQA) in Management Research

Capacity management by global shipping alliances: findings from a game experiment

Learning with serious games in economics education a systematic review of the effectiveness of game-based learning in upper secondary and higher education

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