What is research? Introduction -- Beginning your research -- The basic idea -- Managing the research project -- Choosing the research topic -- Defining your research perspectives -- Producing your project -- Doing your literature review -- Methodology into practice -- Methods -- Analysing your...

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 philosophy and approaches to theory development -- Formulating the...

"We are very pleased to present the fifth edition of our book on Research Methods. The first edition of this book, published in 1995, received considerable recognition and attention, mainly from scholars in the United Kingdom, Scandinavia and the Netherlands. The second, third and fourth...