Business research methods
by Alan Bryman and Emma Bell.
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
- 608 p.
Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Business research strategies Chapter 2. Research designs Chapter 3. The nature of quantitative research Chapter 4. Sampling Chapter 5. Structured interviewing Chapter 6. Self-completion questionnaires Chapter 7. Asking questions Chapter 8. Structured observation Chapter 9. Content analysis Chapter 10. Secondary analysis and official statistics Chapter 11. Quantitative data analysis Chapter 12. Using SPSS for Windows Chapter 13. The nature of qualitative research Chapter 14. Ethnography and participant observation Chapter 15. Interviewing in qualitative research Chapter 16. Focus groups Chapter 17. Language in qualitative research Chapter 18. Documents as sources of data Chapter 19. Qualitative data analysis Chapter 20. Computer-assisted qualitative data analysis : using NVivo Chapter 21. Breaking down the quantitative/qualitative divide Chapter 22. Combining quantitative and qualitative research Chapter 23. Using the Internet as object and method of data collection Chapter 24. Writing up business research Chapter 25. Ethics in business research Chapter 26. Doing a research project. References Index