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certain theme. Once admitted to
this phase, a student undertakes,
over several terms, independent
research under the guidance of a
primary advisor and/ or an advisory
committee (consisting of members
from internal and/ or external
constituencies). The starting point is
the successfully defended research
proposal. This typically provides the
background work and yields the first
components of the dissertation. The
research question is fine-tuned at this
point and the research plan is firmed
up. Data collection instruments and
procedures are readied and put into
play, after proper validation. The
collected data are now analyzed and
appropriate conclusions drawn. All
these are written up into a draft and
submitted for review to the advisory
committee. After one or more rounds
of review and revision, a decision
is made on the acceptability of the
reported research. If this is positive,
an oral defense is held. Success here
leads eventually to the conferring of
the DBA degree.

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