Introduction
The advent of technology advancements in sensors, telecommunications, computers, scanners and mobile devices has sparked a reinvigorated interest in the use archival for researching business issues. Business executives and academia are motivated to the exploit the expanding mass of archival data to address complex financial, operational, communication and security (Guo, Straub, & Zhang, 2014) problems. This paper outlines the pros and cons of using archival data in the research of business issues from both an academic and practioner perspective.
Advantages of Archival Data in Researching Business Issues
The use of archival data, often referred as secondary or second-hand (Jarvenpaa, 1991) data, offers a variety of benefits across the research lifecycle. First, the use of existing archival data, such as business financial information, reduces the amount of resources required to collect the data. For example, the Center for Research in Security Price (CSRP) provides readily available daily, weekly and monthly stock market data for many public firms in a variety of output formats, which would be very tedious, costly and incredibly time consuming to retrieve individually. The time, money and effort saved in data collection could allow more focus on data analysis (Jarvenpaa, 1991).
A second key benefit of archival data is enhanced external validity. Secondary data often contains large sample sizes that are much closer to the population. With very large sample size
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Now, in 2012 it is evident that his theory is true. In 2050, small business owners will make the above statement because like described about real estate in question one, the owner of the business may sell his database upon retirement. Along with real estate, data or information does not depreciate in value. There are some differences. Some databases have been collecting important data, related to customers, for years. This information could prove to be more valuable than real estate to a competitor in one’s respective industry. Information on customers is priceless. A detailed, in depth database is instrumental in finding out customer needs, habits and reactions to discomforts in the market and can contribute immensely to a small business owner’s success.
Just like most of the research, there are two types of data in our project, the primary data, and the secondary data.
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This is existing research that has been gathered previously either by the firm itself or by other organisations. This type of research is collected quicker and cheaper as it has been already archived. Secondary data is normally found in internal and external sources.
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