TY - BOOK AU - Saunders,M.N.K. AU - Lewis,Philip AU - Thornhill,Adrian TI - Research methods for business students SN - 9781292016627 U1 - 650.072 PY - 2016/// CY - Harlow, Essex, England : PB - Pearson Education Limited, KW - Business N1 - Revised edition of Research methods for business students, 2012; 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 N2 - Research Methods for Business Students has been fully revised for this seventh edition and continues to be the market-leading textbook in its field, guiding hundreds of thousands of student researchers to success in their research methods modules, research proposals, projects and dissertations ER -