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How Does Qualitative Explain Specific and Different Tendencies in Quantitative Findings?

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Abstract

Theory suggests different strengths of quantitative research approaches, especially its generalizability. This paper, however, argues that generalizability sometimes can also become a limitation of the quantitative research design when the focus of a study is on how a certain issue immerges in a certain context, as quantitative methods often remove context and individual experience from the generalized findings. In this specific research on the university-enterprise collaboration (UEC) for enhancing graduate employability in Vietnam, qualitative interviews are used to compensate this deficit of quantitative questionnaires. Specifically, when universities and employers have different opinions about UEC, follow-up interviews help explain the disagreement between these two groups of participants. In other words, the qualitative findings of this study help answer the questions ‘how’ and ‘why’ certain tendencies immerged in the quantitative findings.

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Notes

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    I have been working in the HES in Vietnam for more than 19 years with various connections with different universities in the system, and as a member of the Human Resource Link, I also have connections with people who are in charge of human resource issues in enterprises.

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    That means I sent the survey to the participants that I know and asked them to pass it on to the ones in charge of the UEC matter like them that they know.

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I would like to acknowledge the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for their fund granted for my postdoctoral research project, the results of which is discussed in this paper.

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Tran, T.T. (2018). How Does Qualitative Explain Specific and Different Tendencies in Quantitative Findings?. In: Costa, A., Reis, L., Souza, F., Moreira, A. (eds) Computer Supported Qualitative Research. ISQR 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 621. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61121-1_31

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