Understanding Research for Business Students

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Understanding Research for Business Students

Name: Understanding Research for Business Students
Brand: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
SKU: 9781473953567
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A Complete Student's Guide

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By Jonathan Wilson
Imprint: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
Release Date: March 1, 2022
Format: HARDBACK
Pages: 576

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Are you conducting business research for the first time and aren't sure where to begin? This book gives you everything you need to successfully complete your research project. From choosing a direction for your research and considering ethics to data collection and presenting your results, it offers straightforward guidance on every step of the research process. Covering topics such as social media research, group working and how to research your own organisation, it provides a thorough view of research for business and management students. The book: Enables you visualise how each stage of research links to the next, and makes sure you don't miss a step with a handy 'Research Project Wheel' Empowers you to increase your employability and develop transferable skills, such as proposal writing and data analysis Provides student research examples that show common challenges you might face - and how to address them. Key features include research snapshots, offering short how-to examples for doing real research, and concept cartoons, which put forward different views about research so you can broaden your knowledge. It also has end-of-chapter questions, online multiple choice questions and Kahoot! questions so you can test your understanding. Guiding you through working with and understanding both primary and secondary data, this book is the perfect companion for any undergraduate conducting a business and management research project.

Dr Jonathan Wilson BA (Hons), PGCE, MA, MSc, DipM, FCIM, MPhil, PhD is Associate Professor in Marketing and Business Research, Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing and an experienced lecturer in research methods, and has supervised many undergraduate and postgraduate research projects.

Chapter 1: Introduction to business research Chapter 2: Getting started: choosing your research direction Chapter 3: Writing your research proposal Chapter 4: Searching and critically reviewing the literature Chapter 5: Research philosophies, approaches and strategies Chapter 6: Formulating the research design Chapter 7: Plagiarism and ethics in business research Chapter 8: Doing work-based projects and researching your own organization Chapter 9: Sampling techniques Chapter 10: Secondary data Chapter 11: Social media for research Chapter 12: Interviews and focus groups Chapter 13: Observational research Chapter 14: Questionnaires Chapter 15: Analyzing and managing qualitative data Chapter 16: Analyzing and managing quantitative data Chapter 17: Getting started with IBM SPSS Statistics Chapter 18: Writing up and disseminating your work

If you are a module leader or a supervisor, Understanding Research for Business Students will prove to be invaluable. Whether this is your core text, you are adding this to a reading list, or taking this under your arm to meet a student for a supervision, you will find that students find this book to be invaluable.If you are a student embarking on a research project, Understanding Research for Business Students will not leave your side and I have no doubt that you will soon be sleeping with this book under your pillow! -- Fran Hyde Its clear, comprehensive and student-focused approach makes this an indispensable companion for the research journey - from initial conceptualization to final completion. The use of student scenarios and concept cartoons is particularly inspired, as is the attention it gives to group work, work-based projects and using social media. I have no doubt that this book will become a business student's best friend! -- Sally Everett

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