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 …

readers to science, social science, Māori approaches, cross-cultural and feminist research, and ethics. Part two, 'the basics … of social science research', explains how to do a literature review, design a research project, collect and analyse … quantitative and qualitative data, and write up the results. In part three, 'techniques of social research', a number of prominent …

This practical book provides a clear understanding of the commonly used methods in business and management research to … enable students to tackle the fundamental elements of the research process with confidence …