TY - BOOK AU - Cooper,Donald R. AU - Schindler,Pamela S. TI - Business research methods T2 - The Irwin/McGraw-Hill series, operations and decision sciences SN - 0256239525 AV - HD30.4 .E47 1998 U1 - 658/.0072 21 PY - 1998/// CY - Boston PB - Irwin/McGraw-Hill KW - Industrial management KW - Research KW - Economics KW - Gestion d'entreprise KW - Recherche KW - fast KW - Onderzoeksmethoden KW - gtt KW - Bedrijfsleven KW - Onderzoek N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 ER -