LibGuides: Creativity and Innovation in Business including Corporate Entrepreneurship: Research Support

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Books on the Research Process

Research Support Databases

Scopus This link opens in a new window Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Delivering a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities, Scopus features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research.

Essential resource on all aspects of research methodology

SAGE Research Methods can help you with every stage of your research project.

Nearly every research project has 9 main steps:

Defining a Topic
Developing a Researchable Research Question
Designing Your Research and Choosing Your Method
Researching Ethically and Safely
Reviewing the Literature
Doing Fieldwork/Gathering Data
Analyzing Your Data/Findings
Writing Up
Dissemination

See how SRM can help with each step

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SAGE Research Methods supports beginning and advanced researchers in every step of a research project, from writing a research question, choosing a method, gathering and analyzing data, to writing up and publishing the findings.

With information on the full range of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods for the social and behavioral sciences, as well as many methods commonly used in the hard sciences, the book, reference, and journal content in SAGE Research Methods help researchers of all levels conduct their research

Guide to Sage Research Methods

eBooks on research methods

Business Research Projects by Jimme Keizer; Piet M. Kempen
ISBN: 9780080459691
Publication Date: 2006-07-04

The following are selected titles covering various aspects of business research. Please click on each of the links below.

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Experimental Business Research by Amnon Rapoport (Editor); Rami Zwick (Editor)
ISBN: 9780387242439
Publication Date: 2005-09-01
Understanding Business Research by Bart L. Weathington; Christopher J. L. Cunningham; David J. Pittenger
ISBN: 1118342941
Publication Date: 2012-09-04

Research Methodology Books For Business Students

The following is a selection of printed books on research methodology. Search the library catalogue to look for more books by clicking on the following terms: