TY - BOOK AU - Bryman, Alan; AU - Bell, Emma TI - Business research methods SN - 9780199539727 U1 - 658.0072 PY - 2007/// CY - New Delhi PB - Oxford University Press KW - Business KW - Research Methods N1 - PART 1: 1. Business research strategies -- 2. Research designs -- 3. Planning a research project and formulating research questions -- 4. Getting Started: reviewing the literature -- 5. Ethics in business research -- PART 2: 6. The nature of quantitative research -- 7. Sampling -- 8. Structured interviewing; 9. Self-completion questionnaires -- 10. Asking questions -- 11. Structured observation -- 12. Content analysis -- 13. Secondary analysis and official statistics -- 14. Quantitative data analysis -- 15. Using SPSS for Windows -- PART 3: 16. The nature of qualitative research -- 17. Ethnography and participant observation -- 18. Interviewing in qualitative research -- 19. Focus groups -- 20. Language in qualitative research -- 21. Documents as sources of data -- 22. Qualitative data analysis -- 23. Computer-assisted qualitative data analysis: Using NVivo -- PART 4: 24. Breaking down the quantitative/qualitative divide -- 25. Combining quantitative and qualitative research -- 26. Internet research methods -- 27. Writing up business research; 978 N2 - An adaptation of 'Social Research Methods' by Alan Bryman, this volume provides a comprehensive introduction to the area of business research methods. It gives students an assessment of the contexts within which different methods may be used and how theyshould be implemented ER -