It is for sure that your research will have some limitations and it is normal. However, it is critically important for you to be striving to minimize the range of scope of limitations throughout the research process. Also, you need to provide the acknowledgement of your research limitations in conclusions chapter honestly. It is always better to
identify and acknowledge shortcomings of your work, rather than to leave them pointed out to your by your dissertation assessor. While discussing your research limitations, don’t just provide the list and description of shortcomings of your work. It is also important for you to explain how these limitations have impacted your research findings. Your research may have multiple limitations, but you need to discuss only those limitations that directly relate to your research problems. For
example, if conducting a meta-analysis of the secondary data has not been stated as your research objective, no need to mention it as your research limitation. Research limitations in a typical dissertation may relate to the following points: 1. Formulation of research aims and objectives. You might have formulated research aims and objectives too broadly. You can specify in which ways the formulation of research aims and objectives could be narrowed so that the
level of focus of the study could be increased. 2. Implementation of data collection method. Because you do not have an extensive experience in primary data collection (otherwise you would not be reading this book), there is a great chance that the nature of implementation of data collection method is flawed. 3. Sample size. Sample size depends on the nature of the research problem. If sample size is too small, statistical tests would not be able to
identify significant relationships within data set. You can state that basing your study in larger sample size could have generated more accurate results. The importance of sample size is greater in quantitative studies compared to qualitative studies. 4. Lack of previous studies in the research area. Literature review is an important part of any research, because it helps to identify the scope of works that have been done so far in research area. Literature review findings are used as the foundation for the researcher to be built upon to achieve her research objectives. However, there may be little, if any, prior research on your topic if you have focused on the most contemporary and evolving research problem or too narrow research problem. For example, if you have chosen to explore the role of Bitcoins as the future currency, you may not be able to find tons of scholarly paper addressing the research problem, because Bitcoins are only a recent phenomenon. 5. Scope of discussions. You can include this point as a limitation of your research regardless of the choice of the research area. Because (most likely) you don’t have many years of experience of conducing researches and producing academic papers of such a large size individually, the scope and depth of discussions in your paper is compromised in many levels compared to the works of experienced scholars. You can discuss certain points from your research limitations as the suggestion for further research at conclusions chapter of your dissertation. My e-book, The Ultimate Guide to Writing a Dissertation in Business Studies: a step by step assistance offers practical assistance to complete a dissertation with minimum or no stress. The e-book covers all stages of writing a dissertation starting from the selection to the research area to submitting the completed version of the work within the deadline. John Dudovskiy
What can be the limitations of a research project?You can discuss specific points from your research limitations as suggestions for further research in the conclusion of your thesis.. Common Limitations of the Researchers. ... . Limited Access to Information. ... . Limited Time. ... . Conflict over Biased Views and Personal Issues. ... . Research Design Limitations. ... . Impact Limitations.. Why is limitations important in research?Limitations are important to understand for placing research findings in context, interpreting the validity of the scientific work, and ascribing a credibility level to the conclusions of published research. This goes beyond listing the magnitude and direction of random and systematic errors and validity problems.
What are some examples of limitations?Understanding our limitations. You do not love (or sometimes even like) everyone you are supposed to serve. Nor do you have to. ... . You will not be able to save everyone. ... . There is never enough time. ... . There will always be things about your work and the people you work with that cause a strong emotional reaction.. What are the limitations of your study?Study limitations are the constraints placed on the ability to generalize from the results, to further describe applications to practice, and/or related to the utility of findings that are the result of the ways in which you initially chose to design the study or the method used to establish internal and external ...
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