<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<mods xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3" version="3.1" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-1.xsd">
  <titleInfo>
    <title>Research skills for management studies</title>
  </titleInfo>
  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Thomas, Alan (Alan Berkeley)</namePart>
    <role>
      <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm>
    </role>
  </name>
  <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource>
  <genre authority="marc">bibliography</genre>
  <originInfo>
    <place>
      <placeTerm type="code" authority="marccountry">enk</placeTerm>
    </place>
    <place>
      <placeTerm type="text">London</placeTerm>
    </place>
    <place>
      <placeTerm type="text">New York</placeTerm>
    </place>
    <publisher>Routledge</publisher>
    <dateIssued>c2004</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">2004</dateIssued>
    <edition>1st ed.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
  </originInfo>
  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
  </language>
  <physicalDescription>
    <form authority="marcform">print</form>
    <extent>xvi, 269 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.</extent>
  </physicalDescription>
  <tableOfContents>Research skills and how to acquire them -- What is research? -- Ways of knowing -- Problem fields -- Problem identification -- Research ethics -- Research strategies: the experiment and survey -- Research strategies: the case study, ethnography and action research -- Data construction by asking questions -- Data construction by making observations -- Data construction by using documents and records -- Data analysis and interpretation -- Writing and publication.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Alan Berkeley Thomas.</note>
  <note>""Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada.""</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-264) and index.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Management</topic>
    <topic>Study and teaching</topic>
  </subject>
  <classification authority="ddc" edition="21">658/.007/2</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">0415268982 (cloth)</identifier>
  <identifier type="isbn">0415268990 (pbk.)</identifier>
  <identifier type="lccn">2003010827</identifier>
  <recordInfo>
    <recordCreationDate encoding="marc">030512</recordCreationDate>
    <recordChangeDate encoding="iso8601">20181127183811.0</recordChangeDate>
    <recordIdentifier>7524</recordIdentifier>
  </recordInfo>
</mods>
