Providing readers with practical, 'how to' advice and featuring plenty of worked examples, this book takes students through the entire process of doing network research

Challenging current modes of thinking, and covering areas not usually found in qualitative research texts such as social reality/ontology and quantum reality/mechanics, this book helps readers to choose and defend their research methods and to take their work beyond standard perspectives

This book is ideal for looking at research undertaken with limited funds, using a small sample of convenience, in a health care setting with the primary objective of improving client care and obtaining better client outcomes.

Provides a practical, up-to-date treatment of evaluability assessment (EA) focused on application, and capturing the multidisciplinary appeal of EA with case studies from different disciplines.

Placing into perspective the meaning of evidence for evaluation professionals and applied researchers, the contributors to this book - a veritable 'who's who' in evaluation - provide observations about the diversity and changing nature of credible evidence.

Provides a unified framework for both single-level and multilevel modeling of ordinal categorical data

This book provides practical step-by-step guidance for doing grounded theory (GT) using the classic approach articulated by Barney Glaser.

Taking a "bi-level" approach, this book gives readers a complete picture of focus groups with coverage of both the "how-to" and the why, and argues against there being any one right way to do the research.

Helping students to successfully visualise SEM by drawing on the graphical interface of EQS and providing plenty of screenshots throughout, this book assumes no prior statistical knowledge and includes practical assistance to encourage students to feel confident about using SEM for their research project.

This concise and practical guide explores the use of Conversation Analysis as a method for conducting research in a business and management Masters dissertation.