Management and business research / Mark Easterby-Smith, Richard Thorpe, Paul R. Jackson.
Material type: TextPublisher: Los Angeles : SAGE, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 5th editionDescription: xvi, 377 pages : illustrations ; 27 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1446296571
- 9781446296578
- 144629658X
- 9781446296585
- 650.072 23
- HD30.4 .E27 2015
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650.072 COL Business research : a practical guide for undergraduate & postgraduate students / | 650.072 DUL Case study methodology in business research / | 650.072 DUL Case study methodology in business research / | 650.072 EAS Management and business research / | 650.072 ERI Qualitative methods in business research / | 650.072 ERI Qualitative methods in business research / | 650.072 ERI Qualitative methods in business research / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: 1.Getting started and writing the research proposal -- The landscape of management and business research -- Elements of a research proposal -- Clear research questions and research objectives -- Explanation of how the research relates to previous work in the field -- Concise description of the research design and methods -- The impact and engagement agenda -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- 2.Reviewing the literature -- What is a literature review and what are its main purposes? -- Preparing a literature review: finding and recording relevant literature -- Finding relevant literature -- Evaluating literature -- Writing a literature review -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- 3.The philosophy of management and business research -- The philosophical debates -- Ontology: from realism to nominalism -- Epistemology: positivism vs social constructionism -- Strengths and weaknesses of the main traditions -- Paradigms and research approaches --
Note continued: Conclusion -- Further reading -- 4.Designing management and business research -- The essence of research design -- Positivist research designs -- Experimental methods -- Survey research -- Constructionist research designs -- Case method and grounded theory -- Mixed methods -- Common design dilemmas -- Contributing to theory -- Contrasting views on validity and reliability -- Research design template -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- 5.Politics, access and ethics -- Politics and power in research -- Political influences on research -- Politics of access -- Ethics -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- 6.Crafting qualitative data through language and text -- Crafting qualitative data -- Textual data -- Qualitative interviews -- Preparing for data collection -- Conducting interviews -- Interview-based mapping techniques -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- 7.Crafting qualitative data through observation and interaction -- Visual data --
Note continued: Observational research -- Interactive and participatory methods -- General concerns related to the creation of qualitative data -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- 8.Framing and interpreting qualitative data -- Preparing and managing qualitative data -- Framing and interpreting qualitative data: seven approaches -- Computer-aided analysis -- Quality in qualitative research -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- 9.Crafting quantitative data -- Sources of quantitative data -- Question design -- Measurement models -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- 10.Summarizing and making inferences from quantitative data -- Summarizing and describing data -- Going beyond a sample -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- 11.Multivariate analysis -- The domain of multivariate analysis -- Multivariate analysis of causal models -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- 12.Writing management and business research -- The skills of writing -- The content of reports and dissertations --
Note continued: Writing up the literature review -- Outputs and evaluation -- Plagiarism -- Dissemination strategies -- Conclusion -- Further reading.
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