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  <name type="personal">
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Schindler, Pamela S.</namePart>
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    <publisher>McGraw-Hill</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2011</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">2006</dateIssued>
    <edition>2nd European ed.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xix, 685 p. : ill. index;</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Contents: Part 1: Essentials of research: The nature of business and management research -- The research process and proposal -- Literature review -- Ethics in business research -- Part 2: Research approaches: Quantitative and qualitative research -- Sampling strategies -- Survey research -- Secondary data and archival sources -- Case studies, qualitative interviews and focus groups -- Observation -- Content analysis and other qualitative approaches -- Experimentation -- Part 3: Research instruments: Measurement and scales -- Fieldwork: questionnaires and responses -- Writing up and presenting research outcomes -- Part 4:Statistical background: Data preparation and description -- Exploring, displaying and examining data -- Hypothesis testing -- Measures of association -- Multivariate analysis: an overview -- </tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Boris Blumberg, Donald R. Cooper, Pamela S. Schindler.</note>
  <note>Includes index.</note>
  <note>System requirements: PV w/Pentium based processor; Microsoft Windows 98/2000/XP; Microsoft Windows Internet Explorer 5.5 as default browser, Microsoft Office or equivalent.</note>
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    <topic>Industrial management</topic>
    <topic>Research</topic>
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