TY - BOOK AU - Bryman,Alan AU - Bell,Emma TI - Business research methods. SN - 9780199583409 (pbk.) AV - HD30.4.B79(3e) PY - 2011/// CY - Cambridge, New York, NY PB - Oxford University Press KW - Business KW - Research KW - Methodology N1 - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Contents: Business research strategies: research designs -- Planning a research project and formulating research questions -- Getting started: reviewing the literature -- Ethics in business research -- The Nature of quantitative research: sampling -- Structured interviewing -- Self-completion questionnaires -- Asking questions -- Structured observation -- Content analysis -- Secondary analysis and official statistics -- Quantitative data analysis -- Using SPSS for windows -- The Nature of qualitative research: Ethnography and participant observation -- Interviewing in qualitative research -- Focus groups -- Language in qualitative research -- Documents as sources of data -- Qualitative data analysis -- Computer-assisted qualitative data analysis: using NVivo -- Breaking down the quantitative/qualitative divide: Mixed methods research: combining quantitative and qualitative research -- E-research: internet research methods -- Writing up business research ER -