The Impact of Historical Research on Corporate Performance

Historical Research: The impact on organization and education performance in new era

Introduction

       This paper technically investigates the relationship of historical research and the impacts on an organization and education performance in new era. It further discusses the methodology of historical research, reasons for historical research and case studies relating to historical research are examined.

 

Methodology of historical research

             Historical research has been a long time technique that helps researchers to develop correlation between the past and the present. Fracken & Wallen (2009) recognizes that there is, of course, no manipulation or control of variables like there is in experimental research, but more particularly, it is unique in that it focuses primarily on the past. Studying the events of the past has greatly helped researchers to have different perspective in validating data.

      The methodology of historical research involves different steps that include defining the research question, locating relevant sources and understanding of primary sources and secondary sources.

Developing an efficient research question will help researchers to have sense of direction and also to generate information from their participants.

Locating relevant sources will help researchers to access valuable information from different sources that include annual report, books, academic journals and numerical or accounting records.

It is greatly necessary for a researcher to understand the primary sources from secondary sources for the purpose of academic study. Brass (2011) states that it was not always a straightforward analytical process, especially with older publication, because secondary education and empirical research are historical constructs that have been defined and used in discontinuous ways throughout history. It is a cumbersome process utilizing the past history to perform historical research.

Reasons for historical research

             The implementation of historical research has widely spread around all industries that include education, technology, defence, manufacturing, retail and health care. Verdis (2003) Recognizes that for the past three decades, the educational community has witnessed the development of a very influential research movement that brought together researchers and practitioners from a wide spectrum of academic fields such as statistics, education evaluation, subject didactics and  educational policy.

           

               Organizations around the world have implemented historical research to investigate sales pattern of their products and how customers view their company in the past to the present.

Historical research also enables researchers to understand the teaching practice in the past and how it is applicable to present educational system.

        Major organization such as Microsoft Inc understands the importance of historical research and they were able to learn from past failure and that has greatly helped Microsoft to be a leader in the Information Technology industry. The release of Window millennium and Window Vista was a total failure and Microsoft quickly regurgitated by launching a new operating system known as Window Xp and that has led the organization to improve on the past product through innovation and historical research and they were able to launch Window 7 and 8.

Every organization around the world has the moral and ethical responsibility to learn from the past mistakes.

 

  Case studies on Historical research

              The evolution technological devices has changed the way education has been delivered to teenagers and that has both positive and negative impacts on the learning development. The historical stage is the initial stage in which there is one predominant way of interacting (Lambert, 2007). The historical research has been a benchmark for organizational performance. RIM is the maker of Blackberry phone and tablet. Some years back, they launched playbook tablet and that was a total failure and economic loss but the major problem with RIM is that they suppose  to learn from historical research by evaluating the product performance in the market with other company producing electronic tablet and that will help RIM to improve on the Playbook instead RIM discontinued the production of Playbook.

               Blackberry Playbook should have been the best tablet and that will help Blackberry user  to interface their Blackberry user  phone with playbook. Luft (1997) stated that historical research has the potential to make contribution to the understanding of present-day practice which the analysis of present-day data (or cannot so easily make).

            There is a great correlation between historical research and product innovation. Apple has greatly implemented historical research to their advantage and there is a great product development and product migration from music Ipod to Iphone and to Ipad Tablet.

 

 

 

 

Conclusion

               This paper has investigated the historical research  on the impacts on organization and education performance and it has help researchers and organization to learn from their past success and failure. This paper further explained the methodology of historical research and techniques to conduct historical research in both small and big scales.

 

References

 

Brass, J., & Burns, L. D. (2011). Research in secondary english, 1912-2011: Historical continuities and discontinuities in the NCTE imprint. Research in the Teaching of English, 46(2), 171-186. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/905850829?accountid=34574

 

 

 

 

 

Lambert, A. N. (2007). Change processes in relationships: A relational-historical research approach. Women and Language,30(1), 48-49. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/198821130?accountid=34574

 

 

Luft, J. L. (1997). Long-term change in management accounting: Perspectives from historical research. Journal of Management Accounting Research, 9, 163-197. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/210176991?accountid=34574