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3 Methodology
3.1 Introduction
This thesis is a case study on the BSC FIP in order to examine the capacity of FIPs to lead towards improvement in the context of production and trade. Yin 2009 has described that case studies are
used as a research method in many situations to contribute to our knowledge of individual, group, organizational, social, political and related phenomena. In this case study, the focus is on the
phenomenon of the BSC FIP in Indonesia – an organizational phenomenon – and its influence on the BSC fishery. The research is split up in two sections in which a different methodological approach is
applied. The first section regards the scale of the fisheries managers and how they approach improvement. The second section regards the scale of mainly the fishers but also of the collectors in
an Indonesian fishing village and the implementation of the FIP. The data for this study was collected in Indonesia from February until May 2013.
During the complete study a qualitative approach was used. I chose this approach as it allowed describing findings in detail. Denzin and Lincoln 2005: p.3 state that “qualitative research involves
an interpretative, naturalistic approach to the world. This means that qualitative researchers study things in their natural settings, attempting to make sense of or interpret phenomena in terms of the
meanings people bring to them.” Since I studied the way actors perceive a situation or a measure and wanted to study relations among actors, the qualitative approach is suitable. On top of that, no
resources were available to conduct quantitative research for this study. I preferred a qualitative approach over a quantitative approach since I was the first person who studied the effectiveness of
the BSC FIP. Therefore, it was necessary to explore the structure and important relations in the BSC FIP and fishery first before asking more focused and quantifiable questions was possible.
Table 3.1 provides an overview of the number of conducted interviews and with whom they were conducted. In Appendix 1 a more extended overview is given. Interviews were conducted until an
apparent ‘saturation point’ was reached after which no new information was collected in additional interviews. This is a common approach when qualitative research is conducted Guest et al., 2006.
Table 3.1 Overview of interviewees. Interviewees
The BSC FIP Total:
7 Executive director of APRI
1 Asia Liaison of the NFI Crab Council
1 BSC coordinator of the SFP
1 APRI-members
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Betahwalang Total: 29
Fishers 17
Collectors 11
Mini-plant representative 1
Total 36
In this report I use the first person to describe what I did and to draw conclusions. This corresponds to the highly reflexive character of the research. During the research I explored the situation within
18 the BSC FIP and fishery in the field, tested hypotheses, started to ask more focused questions,
reflected on the outcomes, started again, draw conclusions etcetera. The use of the first person reflects this learning process and allows for self-critical discussion if needed at the end of this report.
3.2 The BSC FIP
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