Ranked as the most highly cited text in Business, Marketing, Accounting & Economics according to the Financial Times! The market-leading textbook that offers clear, robust and pragmatic guidance on your dissertation or research project. With over 500,000 copies sold, Research Methods for Business Students by Saunders, Lewis, and Thornhill is the definitive textbook for Business, Marketing, and Management students conducting a research-led project or dissertation. This fully revised 9th editio...

Focused on the needs of the new classroom researcher and those studying education on Masters-level courses, this is a thorough and thoughtful guide to the research process, covering qualitative, quantitative and mixed research methods.

One of the "six best books for data geeks" - Financial TimesWith over 200 images and extensive how-to and how-not-to examples, this new edition has everything students and scholars need to understand and create effective data visualisations. Combining 'how to think' instruction with a 'how to produce' mentality, this book takes readers step-by-step through analysing, designing, and curating information into useful, impactful tools of communication. With this book and its extensive collection ...

In de scheepvaart- en transportbranche bestaat een grote behoefte aan een overzichtelijken uitgebreid Nederlands-Engels en Engels-Nederlands naslagwerk,waarin vaktermen en idioom zijn vertaald en verklaard. Deze uitgave bestaat uit twee delen. In het eerste deel - het woordenboek - zijn de vertalingen van zowel de traditionele als modernste uitdrukkingen en begrippen opgenomen, zoals die wordt gebruikt in de scheepvaart-,scheepsbouw- en transportbranche.Het tweede deel is een handboek met daa...

This fully updated edition offers over 120,000 words, phrases, and definitions. It covers all the words you need for everyday use, carefully selected from the evidence of the Oxford English Corpus, a databank of 21st century English, containing over 2 billion words.The Factfinder centre section gives quick-reference entries on topics including famous people, countries, and science.

With more than three-quarters of a million copies sold since its first publication, The Craft of Research has helped generations of researchers at every level--from first-year undergraduates to advanced graduate students to research reporters in business and government--learn how to conduct effective and meaningful research. Conceived by seasoned researchers and educators Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams, this fundamental work explains how to find and evaluate sourc...

With numerous approaches to choose from, knowing where to start when doing qualitative data analysis (QDA) can be a challenge. This book gives you direction with an accessible and thorough introduction to nine different approaches to QDA, written by a multi-disciplinary team with years of experience teaching and analysing data using these methods. With a clear focus on the ‘how to’ of QDA, each chapter includes: •Step-by-step descriptions of how to apply each approach in your resea...

A qualitative research book for the 'doers', this text provides really practical coverage for those that are undertaking research in real-world contexts.

To make meaningful contributions and to drive innovation, designers first need to learn to ask the right questions so that they can identify what the real problems are. They also need to learn how to conduct research to resolve these problems. Research for Designers is a guide to this new, evidence-based creative process.

This seminal, bestselling book by Gjoko Muratovski is unique in the way it bridges academia and industry, as well as research and practice. The book also expands the notion ...

Een praktisch naslagwerk voor het maken van een risico-inventarisatie en -evaluatie (RI&E). Het boek beschrijft alle ins en outs met betrekking tot de RI&E, zoals de eisen waaraan een RI&E moet voldoen, inzichten in de achtergronden en een duidelijk stappenplan voor de uitvoering.

Ruim aandacht is besteed aan de weging van de grootte van de risico’s, waarbij verschil gemaakt wordt tussen concrete werkplekrisico’s, beleidszaken en wettelijke verplichtingen.

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