TY  - BOOK
AU  - Easterby-Smith,Mark
AU  - Thorpe,Richard
AU  - Jackson,Paul
TI  - Management and business research
SN  - 1446296571
AV  - HD30.4 .E27 2015
U1  - 650.072 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Los Angeles
PB  - SAGE
KW  - Management
KW  - Research
KW  - Operations research
KW  - Organizational behavior
N1  - 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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