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Chapter 1: Shit happens, but you have a job to do!
Keith Townsend
and
Mark N.K. Saunders
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26 Jan 2018
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Collection:
Business 2018
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786435767.00006
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How to Keep Your Research Project on Track
Edited by
Keith Townsend
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Mark N.K. Saunders
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Published:
26 Jan 2018
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9781786435750
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9781786435767
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786435767
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224
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Business 2018
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Table of Contents
Front Matter
Copyright
Contents
Editors
Contributors
Chapter 1: Shit happens, but you have a job to do!
PART I: Getting Started
Chapter 2: Developing research ideas
Chapter 3: On the path to enlightenment? Reviewing the literature systematically – or not
Chapter 4: The master and apprentice: lessons from two PhD supervisors and a recent PhD graduate
Chapter 5: ‘Finders, keepers, losers, weepers!’ A doctoral candidate’s reality of changing thesis advisors
Chapter 6: Reply all, tweets and social media: technological friends for developing a professional identity that need to be treated with care
Chapter 7: Coming up with a research question: opinions, feedback and networking
PART II: Getting Data
Chapter 8: Finding epistemology
Chapter 9: Bounce back, firewalls and legal threats: reaching respondents using Internet questionnaires
Chapter 10: Finding the truth amongst conflicting evidence
Chapter 11: Rolling with the punches
Chapter 12: Access, involvement and interference: encounters and experiences of case studies
Chapter 13: Is a pilot necessary?
Chapter 14: The precarious nature of access
Chapter 15: The diminishing dissertation: seven cases to three+
Chapter 16: So, I guess we’re probably finished then
Chapter 17: Your incentives are too lucrative: caution in rewarding interview participants
Chapter 18: Sales skills for researchers
Chapter 19: Being flexible in interviews: make sure that you account for power imbalance
PART III: Getting It Together
Chapter 20: ‘. . . Just one goat’: the importance of interpretation in qualitative data analysis
Chapter 21: Analysing quantitative data
Chapter 22: When the words just won’t come
Chapter 23: I’m a paper person or maybe not?
Chapter 24: A mug of stress
Chapter 25: Excuse me . . . should that comma be there? Dealing with awkward questions
Chapter 26: Finding the time to progress your research, and the big lie that you are part of!
PART IV: Getting Finished
Chapter 27: Authorship in action
Chapter 28: ‘They think I’m stupid’: dealing with supervisor feedback
Chapter 29: Grasping roses or nettles? Losing and finding ourselves in research projects
Chapter 30: Using social media to enhance your research
Chapter 31: Organisations, clients and feminists: getting in, coming back and having fun
Chapter 32: Born to . . . write, rewrite and rewrite again
Chapter 33: ‘I’m over it . . .’
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Subjects
Business and Management
Research Methods in Business and Management
Education
Research Methods
Research Methods
Qualitative Research Methods
Quantitative Research Methods
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