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    <subTitle>business and management contexts</subTitle>
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    <dateIssued encoding="marc">2015</dateIssued>
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    <edition>Fifth edition.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <tableOfContents>Introduction: Business research approaches -- Quantitative and qualitative research approaches -- Mixed methods research: Breaking the divide between quantitative and qualitative approaches
Main steps in research: Getting started: Planning a research project and getting to know the literature -- Formulating a proposal and reviewing literature -- Planning the research project: Research design -- Ethics in business research -- Writing up research
Data gathering methods: Sampling -- Surveys and questionnaires -- Interviews and focus groups -- Field work: Ethnography and observation -- Gathering data for secondary analysis -- E-research: Internet research methods -- Content analysis
Data analysis methods: Quantitative data analysis methods -- Qualitative data analysis methods </tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Alan Bryman [and seven others].</note>
  <note>References included</note>
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    <topic>Management</topic>
    <topic>Research</topic>
    <topic>Methodology</topic>
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  <subject authority="fast">
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  <identifier type="isbn">9780199076130</identifier>
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