TY - BOOK AU - AU - AU - TI - Business research methods. SN - 9780077129972 AV - HD30.4.B65 U1 - 658/.0072 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Maidenhead, England PB - McGraw-Hill KW - Industrial management KW - Research N1 - Includes index; Contents: Essentials of research: The nature of business and management research -- The research process and proposal -- Literature review -- Ethics in business research -- Research methods: Quantitative and qualitative research -- Sampling strategies -- Survey research -- Secondary data and archival sources -- Case studies, qualitative interviews and focus groups -- Observation -- Content analysis and other qualitative approaches -- Experimentation -- Research instruments: Measurement and scales -- Fieldwork: questionnaires and responses -- Writing up and presenting research outcomes -- Statistical background: Data preparation and description -- Exploring, displaying and examining data -- Hypothesis testing -- Measures of association -- Multivariate analysis: an overview -- ER -