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3.2.3 Data collection procedure
Since the underlying study is mainly researcher-driven, there is a formal agreement between the research group CASD of Kazan Federal University (Russia) and the Russian affiliate of OBI (CDT Business Support CEE LLC). The roles of the Kazan research group were dedicated to: (i) (co-development of the questionnaires and scripts for pilot interviews and focus-group-meetings; (ii) providing interviewers for the pilot interviews and moderators for the focus group meetings; (iii) primary analyses of the results; (iv) translation and administrative support. A budget is available for the compensation of the costs incurred.
To reach the right individuals for the “Alumni” survey, from the database available, the potential respondents were selected and the questionnaire was sent to their personal email address. To contact the individual in charge from the “Organisations” sample, from the acquired database, the questionnaires were sent to the organisations email address, in the name of the organisations owner, general director or managing director. If available, their personal email addresses were used.
Positions of respondents, for both samples, were extensively researched and elucidated by age group (Table 7, p. 136), by gender (Table 8, p.137) and by position in the home-organisation (Table 9, p. 137).
Pilot interviews
Two interviews from each sample were conducted with randomly selected participants. The participants were interviewed digitally (SKYPE) for about 30 minutes. A half-structured script (Appendix v) was used, evolving from the research questions. Reports were analysed and used for the development and fine-tune of the questionnaires for both sample populations.
Online survey
An online survey was conducted with two groups of respondents.
(i) The first group of the respondents were at random selected from the knowledge recipients (clients), who participated in the management support and advisory programmes of the Netherlands-Russian (NRMTP) and German-Russian (GIZ) Presidential Programme.
(ii) The second group of respondents of the survey were randomly selected from employees (managers) who hold different positions in selected organisations, which
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