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    <namePart>Lewis, Philip</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Thornhill, Adrian.</namePart>
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    <publisher>Financial Times/Prentice Hall</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2007</dateIssued>
    <edition>4th ed.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xxvii, 624 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Contents: The Nature of business and management research and structure of this book -- Formulating and clarifying the research topic -- Critically reviewing the literature -- Understanding research philosophies and approaches -- Formulating the research design -- Negotiating access and research ethics -- Selecting samples -- Using secondary data -- Collecting primary data through observation -- Collecting primary data using semi-structured, in-depth and group interviews -- Collecting primary data using questionnaires -- Analysing quantitative data --Analysing qualitative data -- Writing and presenting your project report -- Appendices.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Mark Saunders, Philip Lewis, and Adrian Thornhill.</note>
  <note>Previous ed.: 2003.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index.</note>
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    <topic>Business</topic>
    <topic>Research</topic>
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    <topic>Research</topic>
    <topic>Data processing</topic>
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