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Business Research
A Guide to Planning, Conducting, and Reporting Your Study

First Edition
August 2018 | 432 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
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Business Research: A Guide to Planning, Conducting and Reporting Your Study bridges the academic foundation and the practical application of research methodology through an in-depth and insightful tour of the research process—exploring, planning, creating, conducting, collecting, analyzing, and reporting. The text weaves together timeless principles, emerging ideas, contemporary examples and modern tools in a narrative that is both authoritative and supportive. Integrating a unique Roadmap framework throughout, Business Research navigates students from the start of their initial inquiry to their final stop in reporting their findings, building their confidence as they move point-to-point in their journey. Written with exceptional clarity and focus, Donald Cooper has created a guide to research that will be valuable to students in their academic pursuits as well as their professional careers. 

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List of Exhibits
 
Preface
 
Acknowledgments
 
About the Author
 
Chapter 1. From the Research Jitters to Employers’ Most-Wanted Skills
Learning Objectives

 
Reasons to Study Business

 
What Recruiters Say About Research Skills

 
Research Fast-tracks Your Career

 
Business Research Defined

 
The Scope of Business Research

 
The Continuum of Basic, Practical, and Applied Research

 
Good Research Is . . .

 
Which Research Orientation Is Right for You?

 
The Road Map

 
Chapter Summary

 
Key Terms

 
Discussion Questions

 
 
Chapter 2. Self-Defense Tools for Research: Preparation, Reasoning, and Terminology
Learning Objectives

 
Scientific Inquiry

 
Reasoning to Sound Conclusions

 
Deciphering the Research Lingo

 
Case Study: The Toulmin Model of Argumentation and Reasoning—“Women Make Superior Managers”

 
Chapter Summary

 
Key Terms

 
Discussion Questions

 
 
Chapter 3. The Process Road Map: Exploring and Planning
Learning Objectives

 
Phases of the Research Process

 
Process Phase 1: Exploring

 
Process Phase 2: Planning

 
Chapter Summary

 
Key Terms

 
Discussion Questions

 
 
Chapter 4. The Process Road Map: Creating and Conducting
Learning Objectives

 
Process Phase 3: Creating

 
Process Phase 4: Conducting

 
Chapter Summary

 
Key Terms

 
Discussion Questions

 
 
Chapter 5. The Process Road Map: Collecting, Analyzing, and Writing
Learning Objectives

 
Process Phase 5: Collecting and Analyzing

 
Process Phase 6: Writing

 
Chapter Summary

 
Key Terms

 
Discussion Questions

 
 
Chapter 6. Nonexperimental Quantitative Designs
Learning Objectives

 
Design and the Research Question

 
What Is Research Design?

 
Nonexperimental Design

 
Nonexperimental Designs in Business

 
Design Is Not Method

 
Design Typologies

 
Business Research Design

 
Chapter Summary

 
Key Terms

 
Discussion Questions

 
 
Chapter 7. Qualitative Designs and Mixed Designs
Learning Objectives

 
Qualitative and Quantitative Design: A Synergistic Relationship

 
An Introduction to Qualitative Design

 
Mixed Design

 
Chapter Summary

 
Key Terms

 
Discussion Questions

 
 
Chapter 8. Experimental Designs
Learning Objectives

 
Optimizing Business Experiments

 
Experimental Classifications

 
Characteristics of Experimental Design

 
Pre-Experiments

 
True Experiments

 
Other Randomized Designs

 
Quasi-Experiments

 
Chapter Summary

 
Key Terms

 
Discussion Questions

 
 
Chapter 9. Writing the Report
Learning Objectives

 
Overview

 
Title

 
Abstract

 
Introduction

 
Method

 
Results

 
Discussion

 
References

 
Appendices

 
Chapter Summary

 
Key Terms

 
Discussion Questions

 
 
Appendices
Appendix A: Questionnaire Design Using Google Forms

 
Appendix B: Exemption Request (Institutional Review Board)

 
Appendix C: Sample Business Proposal

 
Appendix D: Statistical Decision Trees

 
Appendix E: Results of the Quantitative Design Textbook Survey

 
Appendix F: Brief Tutorial: Three Longitudinal Studies in One

 
Appendix G: Tutorial: Organize Your Report With Timesaving Applications

 
 
Glossary
 
References
 
Index
Key features

KEY FEATURES:  

  • The only book to offer a simplified design, including both qualitative research and mixed designs, providing a useful and valuable resource for all students.
  • Design matrix and three sets of questions narrow down the most appropriate design methods, allowing readers to begin their research projects with greater efficiency.  
  • Unique Statistical Decision Trees enable students to bypass the typical statistics chapters and select the appropriate analysis based on prior learning, thus lessening anxiety surrounding complex research assignments. 
  • Real world case studies blend business research within the context of successful organizations to detail business research challenges within a broad array of examples.
  • Global narrative highlights a wide spectrum of business research challenges. 
  • A concise and effective APA style how-to guide with over 26 exhibits that includes writing examples using permissions for articles and a 2016 thesis.
  • Robust pedagogical features include learning objectives, key terms, discussion questions, comparison tables for a business report vs. an academic report, and over 500 references.
  • An appendix includes an example of an original PowerPoint Business Research Proposal. 
     

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