Understanding Research for Business Students: A Complete Student's Guide

by Jonathan Wilson

Overview

Are you conducting business research for the first time and aren't sure where to begin? This book gives you everything you need to successfully complete your research project.

From choosing a direction for your research and considering ethics to data collection and presenting your results, it offers straightforward guidance on every step of the research process. Covering topics such as social media research, group working and how to research your own organisation, it provides a thorough view of research for business and management students.

The book:

• Enables you visualise how each stage of research links to the next, and makes sure you don't miss a step with a handy 'Research Project Wheel'
• Empowers you to increase your employability and develop transferable skills, such as proposal writing and data analysis
• Provides student research examples that show common challenges you might face - and how to address them.

Key features include research snapshots, offering short how-to examples for doing real research, and concept cartoons, which put forward different views about research so you can broaden your knowledge. It also has end-of-chapter questions, online multiple choice questions and Kahoot! questions so you can test your understanding.

Guiding you through working with and understanding both primary and secondary data, this book is the perfect companion for any undergraduate conducting a business and management research project.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781473953574
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	03/01/2022
Pages:	576
Product dimensions:	7.44(w) x 9.68(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dr Jonathan Wilson BA (Hons), PGCE, MA, MSc, Dip M, FCIM, MPhil, Ph D is Associate Professor in Marketing and Business Research, Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing and an experienced lecturer in research methods, and has supervised many undergraduate and postgraduate research projects.

Hometown:

Newton, Massachusetts

Date of Birth:

February 26, 1950

Place of Birth:

London, England

Education:

B.A., First Class, University of Essex 1973; Ph.D., Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1980

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction to business research
Chapter 2: Getting started: choosing your research direction
Chapter 3: Writing your research proposal
Chapter 4: Searching and critically reviewing the literature
Chapter 5: Research philosophies, approaches and strategies
Chapter 6: Formulating the research design
Chapter 7: Plagiarism and ethics in business research
Chapter 8: Doing work-based projects and researching your own organization
Chapter 9: Sampling techniques
Chapter 10: Secondary data
Chapter 11: Social media for research
Chapter 12: Interviews and focus groups
Chapter 13: Observational research
Chapter 14: Questionnaires
Chapter 15: Analyzing and managing qualitative data
Chapter 16: Analyzing and managing quantitative data
Chapter 17: Getting started with IBM SPSS Statistics
Chapter 18: Writing up and disseminating your work

Editorial Reviews

Its clear, comprehensive and student-focused approach makes this an indispensable companion for the research journey - from initial conceptualization to final completion. The use of student scenarios and concept cartoons is particularly inspired, as is the attention it gives to group work, work-based projects and using social media. I have no doubt that this book will become a business student’s best friend!

Sally Everett

If you are a module leader or a supervisor, Understanding Research for Business Students will prove to be invaluable. Whether this is your core text, you are adding this to a reading list, or taking this under your arm to meet a student for a supervision, you will find that students find this book to be invaluable.If you are a student embarking on a research project, Understanding Research for Business Students will not leave your side and I have no doubt that you will soon be sleeping with this book under your pillow!--Fran Hyde (5/28/2021 12:00:00 AM)

Its clear, comprehensive and student-focused approach makes this an indispensable companion for the research journey - from initial conceptualization to final completion. The use of student scenarios and concept cartoons is particularly inspired, as is the attention it gives to group work, work-based projects and using social media. I have no doubt that this book will become a business student's best friend!--Sally Everett (6/7/2021 12:00:00 AM)

From the Publisher

If you are a module leader or a supervisor, Understanding Research for Business Students will prove to be invaluable. Whether this is your core text, you are adding this to a reading list, or taking this under your arm to meet a student for a supervision, you will find that students find this book to be invaluable.If you are a student embarking on a research project, Understanding Research for Business Students will not leave your side and I have no doubt that you will soon be sleeping with this book under your pillow!

Fran Hyde