A MOTIVATION FOR A NEW STUDY The article broadly captures the current pre-occupation of the South African mining industry by concluding: “Ultimately, miners are focusing on climate change initiatives, energy programmes and transformative technology projects, while trying to keep costs in check and navigating global and local challenges, all the while learning to use data and digital tools meaningfully”. You are a business researcher with a keen interest in the South African mining sector. You have read the 'State of Digital Transformation in the South African Mining Industry: Ten Insights into the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) 2023' report and you suspect that digital transformation could be a significant contributor to organisational resilience within the South African mining industry. Accordingly, you are proposing a study with the aim of investigating the influence of digital transformation on organisational resilience within the South African mining industry. You intend gathering qualitative and quantitative primary data concurrently on organisational digital transformation and organisational resilience from the top management teams of 20 South African mining organisations as well as secondary data on digital transformation and resilience of the 20 mining organisations. The five research objectives of your study are: 1. To assess the state of the digital journey of South African mining companies. 2. To understand the main digital transformation challenges faced by South African companies. 3. To assess the resilience of South African mining companies. 4. To determine the relationship between digital transformation and organisational resilience in the South African mining industry. 5. To proffer practical recommendations to the management of the 20 South African mining organisations on how best to leverage digital transformation for improved organisational resilience. REQUIRED: Please outline how you will conduct the proposed study by answer the following questions: 1.1.Formulate a suitable title for the proposed study. 1.2.Specify the aim and significance of the proposed study. 1.3.Formulate FIVE (5) research questions that your study will attempt to answer. 1.4.Critically discuss pragmatic research paradigm and justify its appropriateness for the proposed study. 1.5.Based on the motivation for the proposed study and your understanding of research design, specify and comprehensively discuss the appropriate research design for the proposed study.
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A MOTIVATION FOR A NEW STUDY
The article broadly captures the current pre-occupation of the South African mining industry by concluding: “Ultimately, miners
are focusing on climate change initiatives, energy programmes and transformative technology projects, while trying to keep
costs in check and navigating global and local challenges, all the while learning to use data and digital tools meaningfully”.
You are a business researcher with a keen interest in the South African mining sector. You have read the 'State of Digital
Transformation in the South African Mining Industry: Ten Insights into the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) 2023' report and
you suspect that digital transformation could be a significant contributor to organisational resilience within the South African
mining industry.
Accordingly, you are proposing a study with the aim of investigating the influence of digital transformation on organisational
resilience within the South African mining industry. You intend gathering qualitative and quantitative primary data concurrently
on organisational digital transformation and organisational resilience from the top management teams of 20 South African
mining organisations as well as secondary data on digital transformation and resilience of the 20 mining organisations.
The five research objectives of your study are:
1. To assess the state of the digital journey of South African mining companies.
2. To understand the main digital transformation challenges faced by South African companies.
3. To assess the resilience of South African mining companies.
4. To determine the relationship between digital transformation and organisational resilience in the South African mining
industry.
5. To proffer practical recommendations to the management of the 20 South African mining organisations on how best to
leverage digital transformation for improved organisational resilience.
REQUIRED:
Please outline how you will conduct the proposed study by answer the following questions:
1.1.Formulate a suitable title for the proposed study.
1.2.Specify the aim and significance of the proposed study.
1.3.Formulate FIVE (5) research questions that your study will attempt to answer.
1.4.Critically discuss pragmatic research paradigm and justify its appropriateness for the proposed study.
1.5.Based on the motivation for the proposed study and your understanding of research design, specify and
comprehensively discuss the appropriate research design for the proposed study.
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