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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Research methods for business students</title>
  </titleInfo>
  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Saunders, M. N. K.</namePart>
    <role>
      <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm>
    </role>
  </name>
  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Lewis, Philip.</namePart>
  </name>
  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Thornhill, Adrian.</namePart>
  </name>
  <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource>
  <originInfo>
    <place>
      <placeTerm type="text">Harlow, England</placeTerm>
    </place>
    <publisher>Pearson</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2016</dateIssued>
    <edition>7th ed.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
  </originInfo>
  <physicalDescription>
    <extent>xxvi, 740 pages : Illustrations ;</extent>
  </physicalDescription>
  <tableOfContents>Preface -- Contributors -- Publisher's acknowledgements -- Business and management research, reflective diaries and the purpose of this book -- Formulating and clarifying the research topic -- Critically reviewing the literature -- Understanding research philosophies and approaches to reasoning -- Formulating the research design -- Negotiating access and research ethics -- Selecting samples -- Using secondary data -- Collecting primary data through observation -- Collecting primary data using semi-structured, in-depth and group interviews -- Collecting primary data using questionnaires -- Analysing quantitative data -- Analysing qualitative data -- Writing and presenting your project report -- Bibliography -- Appendices -- Glossary -- Index.</tableOfContents>
  <note>Revised edition of Research methods for business students, 2012.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Business - research</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Business – research - data processing</topic>
  </subject>
  <classification authority="lcc">HD 30.4 SAU</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">9781292016627</identifier>
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