TY - BOOK AU - Hair,Joseph F. TI - Essentials of business research methods SN - 9781138859920 (hardback) AV - HD30.4 ESS PY - 2016/// CY - New York PB - Routledge KW - Business - Research N1 - 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 ER -