This book explores how to include values in sustainable develoment research and practice, giving methods to gain an understanding of participants' values, with examples of sustainable development projects which have been influenced by values as well as statements of values towards the environment.
This book lets managers understand the theory and practice of causal mapping in layman's terms for use in both individual and group settings. It shows managers how to develop and use action-oriented strategy maps and logic models in business decision making.
This concise and practical guide explores the use of focus groups as a method for conducting research in a business and management Masters dissertation.
This concise and practical guide explores the use of Conversation Analysis as a method for conducting research in a business and management Masters dissertation.
The only book on the market designed to help Chinese students with the specific challenges they face in understanding research methods and how to do a research project on their business programme at a Western university.
The new edition of this highly successful and popular textbook is a comprehensive, easy-to-follow guide to using and interpreting all the quantitative techniques that students will encounter in their later business and financial careers;
This work has been designed for undergraduate and postgraduate and post-experience students pursuing management and business qualifications that contain a dissertation component.
The clearest, most relevant guide, written specifically to engage business students taking research methods courses or completing a research project. The sixth edition offers extensively-revised global examples throughout, as well as unique interviews with students and educators providing invaluable real-world insights and advice.
Essential Study and Employment Skills for Business and Management Students is the only skills companion text for business and management students to blend practical, hands-on advice with a sound theoretical underpinning to enhance your success throughout university and beyond.
This book takes you through the creation and management of a BA service, from setting strategy to recruiting business analysts, to continuous improvement, through to useful supporting tools and technology. Top tips, case studies and worked examples are included throughout.
With over 100 entries on key concepts and theorists, this title provides full coverage of the field, explaining fundamental concepts and introducing new and unfamiliar terms. It also offers definitions, examples in the field of management studies, and, criticisms and possible future directions.
This textbook contains sections on how to choose a topic and design the project, how to write a critical literature review, concepts, conceptual frameworks and theories, collecting and analysing research material, interpreting the research material and, finally, framing arguments and writing the dissertation.
Miles and Huberman's seminal text has helped thousands of graduate students and researchers find meaning from their qualitative data. New to this edition is the integration of qualitative analysis software, coverage of new approaches of inquiry, inclusion of mixed methods, and examples from a wider range of social science disciplines
This title targets the specific needs of business and management students to ensure that these students get the most relevant and most useful study skills advice possible. The contents of the book cover how to manage your stress, getting the most out of lectures, excelling in exams, develop your writing skills, and much more.
This is an in-depth yet practical guide for Masters students on basic quantitative methods of analysis, covering the foundations through to the analysis.
This is an in-depth yet practical guide for Masters students on conducting research interviews, from conceiving the interview, through to preparing, conducting and analysing the interview.
Equips business students with the study skills, interpersonal skills and professional skills that they need for successful study and employment. This text contains examples and case studies relevant to a range of business settings, including HRM, marketing and finance, so that students can understand how the skills they learn apply in practice.
A must-have reference resource for quantitative management researchers, this text contains over 100 entries covering the fundamentals of quantitative methodologies.
Study Skills for Business and Management Students has been carefully structured to be used throughout a degree course in order to hone the skills necessary to get a good degree and begin a successful career.
Concise, authoritative and jargon-free, the new edition of Jonathan Wilson's best-selling introduction to business research is the perfect guide to completing a successful research project.
Using real-life case studies and written with a student-centred approach, this 5th edition provides students with the necessary knowledge and skills to enable them to undertake a piece of business research making the best use of IT where appropriate.
Bell and Thorpe provide a stimulating and critical overview of the key theoretical debates on research paradigms and methodologies and relate them to the day to day practice of the research, demystifying the process and providing invaluable insights into the politics and practice of research.
Are you about to begin your dissertation or a research project, but don't know what topic to choose? Are you unsure of what research methods to use and how they should be applied to your project? Are you worried about how to write up your research project? This book deals with these questions.