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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Essentials of business research methods</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Hair, Joseph F.</namePart>
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    <place>
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    <publisher>Routledge</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2016</dateIssued>
    <edition>3rd edition.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <physicalDescription>
    <extent>494 pages Illustrations</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Business research for the twenty-first century -- Overview of the research process -- Ethics in business research -- Defining the research problem and reviewing the literature -- The nature and sources of secondary business data -- Conceptualization and research design -- Sampling approaches and considerations -- Methods of collecting primary data -- Measurement and scaling -- Questionnaire design -- Basic data analysis for qualitative research -- Basic data analysis for quantitative research -- Testing hypotheses in quantitative research -- Examining relationships using correlation and regression -- Other multivariate techniques -- Reporting and presenting research.</tableOfContents>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Business - Research</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">HD30.4 ESS</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">9781138859920 (hardback)</identifier>
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