TY - BOOK AU - Cooper, Donald R AU - Schindler,Pamela S. AU - Sharma,J.K. TI - Business research methods SN - 978939353161194 (pbk) U1 - 658.0072 23 PY - 2019///c CY - Chennai PB - McGraw Hill Ltd N1 - includes contents and index; Introduction to business research -- Research in Business -- Applying Scientific Thinking to Management Problems -- The Research Process -- The Research Proposal -- Ethics in Business Research -- The Design of Research -- Design Strategies -- Sampling Design -- Measurement -- Measurement Scales -- The Sources and Collection of Data -- Exploring Secondary Data -- Survey Methods: Communicating with Participants -- Instruments for Participant Communication -- Observational Studies -- Experimentation -- Analysis and Presentation of Data -- Data Preparation and Description -- Exploring, Displaying, and Examining Data -- Hypothesis Testing -- Measures of Association -- Multivariate Analysis: an overview -- Presenting Results: Written and Oral Reports ER -