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    <title>Business research methods</title>
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    <namePart>Schindler, Pamela S.</namePart>
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    <publisher>Irwin/McGraw-Hill</publisher>
    <dateIssued>©1998</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">1998</dateIssued>
    <edition>6th ed.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xvi, 703 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Part I. Introduction to business research -- 1. Research in business -- 2. Scientific thinking -- 3. The Research process -- 4. The Research proposal -- 5. Ethics in business research. -- Part II. The design of research -- 6. Design strategies -- 7. Measurement -- 8. Scaling design -- 9. Sampling design. -- Part III. The sources and collection of data -- 10. Secondary data sources -- 11. Survey methods: communicating with respondents -- 12. Instruments for respondent communication -- 13. Observational studies -- 14. Experimentation. -- Part IV. Analysis and presentation of data -- 15. Data preparation and preliminary analysis -- 16. Hypothesis testing -- 17. Measures of association -- 18. Multivariate analysis: an overview -- 19. Presenting results: written and oral reports. -- Appendices.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Donald R. Cooper, Pamela S. Schindler.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index.</note>
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    <topic>Research</topic>
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