Phương Pháp Nghiên Cứu Cho Sinh Viên Kinh Doanh: Hướng Dẫn Chi Tiết

Trường đại học

University of Gloucestershire

Chuyên ngành

Business

Người đăng

Ẩn danh

Thể loại

sách

2007

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Phí lưu trữ

135 Point

Mục lục chi tiết

How to use this book

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Preface

Contributors

Publisher’s acknowledgements

1. The nature of business and management research and structure of this book

1.2. The nature of research

1.3. The nature of business and management research

1.4. The research process

1.5. The purpose and structure of this book

1.6. Summary

2. Formulating and clarifying the research topic

2.2. Attributes of a good research topic

2.3. Generating and refining research ideas

2.4. Turning research ideas into research projects

2.5. Writing your research proposal

2.6. Summary

3. Critically reviewing the literature

3.2. The critical review

3.3. Literature sources available

3.4. Planning your literature search strategy

3.5. Conducting your literature search

3.6. Obtaining and evaluating the literature

3.7. Recording the literature

3.8. Summary

4. Understanding research philosophies and approaches

4.2. Understanding your research philosophy

4.4. Summary

5. Formulating the research design

5.2. The purpose of your research

5.3. The need for a clear research strategy

5.4. Multiple methods choices – combining quantitative and qualitative techniques and procedures

5.5. Time horizons

5.6. The credibility of research findings

5.7. The ethics of research design

5.8. Summary

6. Negotiating access and research ethics

6.2. Problems associated with access

6.3. Strategies to gain access

6.5. Summary

7. Selecting samples

7.3. Non-probability sampling

7.4. Summary

8. Using secondary data

8.2. Types of secondary data and uses in research

8.3. Locating secondary data

8.4. Advantages and disadvantages of secondary data

8.5. Evaluating secondary data sources

8.6. Summary

9. Collecting primary data through observation

9.2. Participant observation: an introduction

9.3. Participant observation: researcher roles

9.4. Participant observation: data collection and analysis

9.5. Structured observation: an introduction

9.6. Structured observation: data collection and analysis

9.7. Summary

10. Collecting primary data using semi-structured, in-depth and group interviews

10.2. Types of interview and their link to the purposes of research and research strategy

10.3. Situations favouring non-standardised (qualitative) interviews

10.4. Data quality issues and preparing for the interview

10.6. Managing logistical and resource issues

10.7. Group interviews and focus groups

10.8. Telephone, Internet- and intranet-mediated interviews

10.9. Summary

11. Collecting primary data using questionnaires

11.2. An overview of questionnaire techniques

11.3. Deciding what data need to be collected

11.4. Designing the questionnaire

11.5. Administering the questionnaire

11.6. Summary

12. Analysing quantitative data

12.2. Preparing, inputting and checking data

12.3. Exploring and presenting data

12.4. Describing data using statistics

12.5. Examining relationships, differences and trends using statistics

12.6. Summary

13. Analysing qualitative data

13.2. Differences between qualitative and quantitative data

13.3. Preparing your data for analysis

13.4. An overview of qualitative analysis

13.5. Approaches to qualitative analysis

13.6. Deductively-based analytical procedures

13.7. Inductively-based analytical procedures

13.8. Quantifying your qualitative data

13.9. Using CAQDAS for qualitative analysis

13.10. Summary

14. Writing and presenting your project report

14.2. Getting started with writing

14.3. Structuring your project report

14.4. Organising the project report’s content

14.5. Developing an appropriate writing style

14.6. Meeting the assessment criteria

14.7. Oral presentation of the report

14.8. Summary

Bibliography

Appendices

1. Example research project titles

2. Systems of referencing

3. Calculating the minimum sample size

4. Random sampling numbers

5. Guidelines for non-discriminatory language

Glossary

Index

Research methods for business students