TY - BOOK AU - Blumberg,Boris AU - Cooper,Donald R. AU - Schindler,Pamela S. TI - Business research methods SN - 13: 9780077107420 [paperback] PY - 2005/// CY - London PB - The McGraw-Hill Companies KW - Industrial management KW - Research N1 - Includes appendices, bibliographical references and index; Contents: Section 1: Essentials of research -- Chapter 1 The nature of business and management research -- Chapter 2 The research process and proposal -- Chapter 3 Ethics in business research -- Section 2: Research approaches -- Chapter 4 Quantitative and qualitative research -- Chapter 5 Literature review -- Chapter 6 Sampling: from an example to a whole population -- Chapter 7 Survey research -- Chapter 8 Observational, action and ethnographic research -- Chapter 9 Experimentation -- Section 3: Conducting the research -- Chapter 10 Secondary data -- Chapter 11 Measurement and scales -- Chapter 12 Fieldwork: questionnaires and responses -- Chapter 13 Writing up and presenting research outcomes -- Section 4 Statistical background (on CD-Rom only) -- Chapter 14 Data preparation and description -- Chapter 15 Exploring, displaying and examining data -- Chapter 16 Hypothesis testing -- Chapter 17 Measures of association -- Chapter 18 Multivariate analysis: an overview ER -