Doing Research in Business and Management

Ethne M. Swartz, Ph.D., is a Professor of Management at the Feliciano School of Business, Montclair State University. She served as a chair and associate dean at Fairleigh Dickinson University's Silberman College of Business. She is a Fulbright Scholar and a Justin G. Longenecker Fellow of the United States Association for Small Business & Entrepreneurship. She has taught in the UK, Mexico, Germany, Iceland, and South Africa. She serves as a research associate at the University of Pretoria's Gordon Institute of Business Science. Her research publications appear in * Long Range Planning * Risk Management: An International Journal * Journal of Applied Management Studies * Leadership and Organisational Development Journal * Business Horizons * International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research * Facilities * Education and Training * Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship * International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship, and Entrepreneurship, Theory & Practice (ET&P).

PART ONE: CONTEXT AND PROCESS Business and Management Research in Perspective Philosophical Background to Research Research Strategies and Tactics The Research Programme and Process PART TWO: APPROACH, METHOD AND DATA The Positivist Approach to Empirical Research Phenomenology: The Non-Positivist Approach The Research Process Collecting Empirical Data The Questionnaire The Case Study The Sample Statistical Analysis PART THREE: REPORTING RESEARCH Ethical Considerations Writing Up the Research Evaluation of Masters and Doctoral Degrees

`Postgraduate students should find this a useful book, since it focuses on issues specific to their requirements. The philosophical underpinnings, methodology and practicalities of research are all discussed within the context of postgraduate research' - International Small Business Journal '[T]here is, as with all the chapters, an excellent set of suggested further reading...' - Management Learning