Open AccessBook
Business Research Methods
Alan Bryman,Emma Bell +1 more
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
In this paper, the authors present a review of the literature in business research and discuss the nature of qualitative and quantitative research, and break down the quantitative/qualitative divide by combining quantitative and qualitative research.Abstract:
PART 1 1. Business research strategies 2. Research designs 3. Planning a research project and formulating research questions 4. Getting Started: reviewing the literature 5. Ethics in business research PART 2 6. The nature of quantitative research 7. Sampling 8. Structured interviewing 9. Self-completion questionnaires 10. Asking questions 11. Structured observation 12. Content analysis 13. Secondary analysis and official statistics 14. Quantitative data analysis 15. Using SPSS for Windows PART 3 16. The nature of qualitative research 17. Ethnography and participant observation 18. Interviewing in qualitative research 19. Focus groups 20. Language in qualitative research 21. Documents as sources of data 22. Qualitative data analysis 23. Computer-assisted qualitative data analysis: Using NVivo PART 4 24. Breaking down the quantitative/qualitative divide 25. Combining quantitative and qualitative research 26. Internet research methods 27. Writing up business researchread more
Citations
More filters
Critical success factors influencing project success in the construction industry
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors submitted a thesis in compliance with the requirements for the Masters Degree in Technology: Business Administration, Durban University of Technology, 2011, which they described as:
Journal ArticleDOI
The impact of dry port operations on container seaports competitiveness
TL;DR: In this article, the impact of dry port operations on container seaport competitiveness is investigated through 120 online surveys to key stakeholders of dry ports, including freight forwarders, shippers, seaports, rail operator, shipping lines and haulers.
Dissertation
Managing the implementation of education policies for quality education in public schools of Limpopo Province
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a method to solve the problem of "uniformity" and "uncertainty" in the context of education.V.VV.
Journal ArticleDOI
Do employees' private demands lead to Cyberloafing? The mediating role of job stress
TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed and empirically tested a research model to investigate the relationships between private demands, job stress and cyber-loafing, premised on border theory, conservation of resources theory and general strain theory.
Journal ArticleDOI
Risk transfer and stakeholder relationships in Public Private Partnerships
Richard Burke,Istemi Demirag +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the stakeholder management strategies used by the Procuring Authority in Irish road public private partnerships to manage its procurement process, drawing on stakeholder theory.