The clearest, most relevant guide, written specifically to engage business students taking research methods courses or completing a research project. The sixth edition offers extensively-revised global examples throughout, as well as unique interviews with students and educators providing invaluable real-world insights and advice.
This extremely popular text is the complete introduction to doing business research and is the ideal guide for students embarking on a research project.
The authors have extensively revised this sixth edition to make it the most engaging and relevant text available. New chapters on quantitative methods and visual research offer extensive coverage of these areas and even greater practical support in applying these techniques, while cutting-edge material on inclusivity and bias in research, feminist perspectives, and decolonial and indigenous research is also introduced.
'Student experience' features provide practical tips, presenting personal insights and advice from fellow students to help you avoid common mistakes and follow others' successful strategies when undertaking your own research project. For the sixth edition, the 'Research in Focus' features provide a greater global range of examples, including new case studies from China, Denmark, Germany, Spain, and India, all of which demonstrate how fascinating and essential research can be.
Above all else, the book places strong emphasis on those challenges faced most frequently by students, such as choosing a research question, planning a project, and writing it up. Presenting essential topics in a concise way, Business Research Methods will provide you with key information without becoming overwhelming: it is now even clearer, more focused, and more relevant than ever before.
The e-book offers a mobile experience and convenient access: www. oxfordtextbooks. co. uk/ebooks
This book is accompanied by the following online resources:
For students
Video tutorials covering SPSS, Nvivo, R, and Stata.
Self-test multiple choice questions with answer feedback
Research project guide
Video interviews with students and lecturers
Links to additional resources (articles, data repositories, and third-party guides)
Guide to using Excel in data analysis
Flashcard glossary
For lecturers
PowerPoint presentations
Additional case studies
Discussion questions
Lecturer's guide (includes suggested lecture outlines, problem-spotting, and practical teaching tips)
Test bank containing multiple choice questions
Figures from the text
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Part 1 - The research process
- 1: The nature and process of business research
- 2: Business research strategies
- 3: Research designs
- 4: Planning a research project and developing research questions
- 5: Getting started: reviewing the literature
- 6: Ethics in business research
- 7: Writing up business research
- Part 2 - Quantitative research
- 8: The nature of quantitative research
- 9: Sampling in quantitative research
- 10: Structured interviewing
- 11: Self-completion questionnaires
- 12: Asking questions
- 13: Quantitative research using naturally occurring data
- 14: Secondary analysis and official statistics
- 15: Quantitative data analysis: descriptive statistics
- 16: Quantitative analysis: inferential statistics
- Part 3 - Qualitative research
- 17: The nature of qualitative research
- 18: Sampling in qualitative research
- 19: Ethnography and participant observation
- 20: Interviewing in qualitative research
- 21: Focus groups
- 22: Language in qualitative research
- 23: Documentary data
- 24: Visual qualitative research
- 25: Qualitative data analysis
- Part 4 - Mixed methods research
- 26: Breaking down the quantitative/qualitative divide
- 27: Mixed methods research: combining quantitative and qualitative research