Cranfield School of Management

 

Research Methods books held in MIRC

Titles listed in classmark order

ebook

A companion to qualitative research edited by Uwe Flick, Ernst von Kardorff and Ines Steinke. 2nd edition. London : SAGE, 2004. Internet link to full text available via library catalogue.

ebook

Organization theory : challenges and perspectives by John McAuley, Joanne Duberley, Phil Johnson. Harlow : Prentice Hall/Financial Times, 2007. Internet link to full text available via library catalogue.

ebook

Research methods and organization studies by Alan Bryman. London : Routledge, 1989. Internet link to full text available via library catalogue.

ebook

Teaching for quality learning at university : what the student does by John Biggs. 3rd edition. Maidenhead ; New York : McGraw-Hill/Society for Research into Higher Education & Open University Press, 2007. Internet link to full text available via library catalogue.

ebook

The practice of market and social research: an introduction by Yvonne McGivern. 2nd edition. Harlow : FT Prentice Hall, 2006. Internet link to full text available via library catalogue.

001.881 PEA

Cite them right : the essential referencing guide by Richard Pears and Graham Shields.  Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Pear Tree Books, 2008.

025.5 ALL

Supporting research students by Barbara Allan. London : Facet, 2010.

141:65.013 PHI

Philosophy and organization theory edited by Haridimos Tsoukas ; Robert Chia.  London : Emerald Group Publ, 2011.

159.9 COT

Skills for success : the personal development planning handbook by Stella Cottrell. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

159.9 DEV + ebook

Developing personal potential revised by Corinne Leech edited by Kate Williams. Oxford : Elsevier, 2004. Internet link to full text available via library catalogue.

159.94 LAZ

Emotion and adaptation by Richard S. Lazarus. New York : Oxford University Press, 1991.

3 WIL + ebook

Introduction to the philosophy of social research by Malcolm Williams and Tim May, with Richard D. Wiggins. London : UCL Press, 1996. Internet link to full text available via library catalogue.

3.001 ALV

Reflexive methodology : new vistas for qualitative research by Mats Alvesson and Kaj Sköldberg. 2nd edition. Los Angeles ; London : SAGE, 2009.

3.001 ARB

Methodology for creating business knowledge by Ingeman Arbnor and Bkorn Bjerke. 2nd edition. Thousand Oaks : SAGE, 1997.

3.001 BAB

Adventures in social research: data analysis using SPSS 14.0 and 15.0 for Windows by Earl R. Babbie, 6th edition. Pine Forge Press, an Imprint of SAGE Publications, 2007.

3.001 BAR

Doing focus groups by Rosaline Barbour. London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, c2007.

3.001 BAZ

Qualitative data analysis with NVivo by Pat Bazeley. London : SAGE, 2007.

3.001 BLA

Approaches to social enquiry by Norman W.H. Blaikie. Cambridge : Polity Press, 1993.

3.001 BLA

Approaches to social enquiry by Norman W.H. Blaikie, 2nd edition. Cambridge : Polity Press, 2007.

3.001 BLA

Designing social research : the logic of anticipation by Norman Blaikie. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2000.

3.001 BLA

Designing social research : the logic of anticipation by Norman Blaikie. 2nd edition. Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2009.

3.001 BLA

Doing quantitative research in the social sciences : an integrated approach to research design, measurement and statistics by Thomas R. Black. London : SAGE, 1999.

3.001 BRA

Questionnaire design: how to plan, structure and write survey material for effective market research by Ian Brace. Kogan Page, 2004.

3.001 CHI

Interviewing in depth: the interactive - relational approach by John T Chirban. Thousand Oaks : SAGE, 1996.

3.001 COF

Making sense of qualitative data : complementary research strategies by Amanda Coffey and Paul Atkinson. Thousand Oaks : SAGE, 1996.

3.001 COG

Doing action research in your own organization by David Coghlan and Teresa Brannick. 3rd edition. Los Angeles, Calif. ; London : SAGE, 2010.

3.001 COM

Comparative methods in the social sciences edited by Alan Sica ; assisted by Julie Pelton. Volumes I-IV. London : SAGE, 2006.

3.001 CON

Context and method in qualitative research edited by Gale Miller & Robert Dingwall. London : SAGE, 1997.

3.001 CRE

Qualitative inquiry and research design : choosing among five traditions by John W Creswell. Thousand Oaks : SAGE, 1998.

3.001 EDW

How to conduct organizational surveys : a step by step guide by Jack Edwards et al. Thousand Oaks : SAGE, 1996.

3.001 FIN

Conducting research literature reviews : from the Internet to paper by Arlene Fink. 3rd edition.  Los Angeles : SAGE, c2010.

3.001 FLI

An introduction to qualitative research by Uwe Flick. 2nd edition. London : SAGE, 2002.

3.001 GAH

Doing qualitative research using QSR NUD.IST by Celia Gahan and Mike Hannibal. London : SAGE, 1998.

3.001 GIR

Evaluating research articles from start to finish by Ellen R. Girden. 3rd edition. SAGE, 2010.

3.001 GOL

Composing qualitative research by Karen Golden-Biddle and Karen D. Locke, Thousand Oaks : SAGE, 1997.

3.001 GRE

The handbook for focus group research by Thomas L. Greenbaum. 2nd edition. Thousand Oaks : SAGE, 1998.

3.001 HAN

Handbook of action research : participative inquiry and practice edited by Peter Reason and Hilary Bradbury. SAGE, 2000.

3.001 HAN

Handbook of action research : the concise paperback edited by Peter Reason and Hilary Bradbury. 2nd edition. London : SAGE, 2006.

3.001 HAN

Handbook of applied social research methods edited by Leonard Bickman and Debra J. Rog. Thousand Oaks : SAGE, 1997.

3.001 HAN

Handbook of qualitative research edited by Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln. Thousand Oaks : SAGE, 1994.

3.001 HAN

Handbook of qualitative research edited by Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln. 2nd edition. Thousand Oaks : SAGE, 2000.

3.001 HAR

Doing a literature review: releasing the social science research imagination by Chris Hart, London : SAGE, 1998.

3.001 HUF

Designing research for publication by Anne Sigismund Huff. Thousand Oaks : SAGE, 2008.

3.001 HUF

Writing for scholarly publication by Anne Sigismund Huff. Thousand Oaks: SAGE, 1999.

3.001 KVA

Interviews: An introduction to qualitative research interviewing by Steiner Kvale. Thousand Oaks: SAGE, 1996.

3.001 KVA

InterViews : learning the craft of qualitative research interviewing by Steinar Kvale, Svend Brinkmann. 2nd edition. Thousand Oaks : SAGE, 2009.

3.001 LOF

Analyzing social settings : a guide to qualitative observation and analysis by John Lofland et al. 4th edition. Belmont, CA : Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, c2006.

3.001 MCN

All you need to know about action research by Jean McNiff and Jack Whitehead. London : SAGE, 2006.

3.001 MCN

All you need to know about action research by Jean McNiff and Jack Whitehead. 2nd edition. SAGE, 2011.

3.001 MIL

Qualitative data analysis : an expanded source book by Matthew B. Miles and A. Michael Huberman. 2nd edition. Thousand Oaks : SAGE, 1994.

3.001 OPP

Questionnaire design and attitude measurement by A.N. Oppenheim. 2nd edition. London : Pinter, 1993.

3.001 PHI

How to get a PhD : a handbook for students and their supervisors by Estelle M. Phillips and Derek S. Pugh. 3rd edition. Buckingham : Open University Press, 2000.

3.001 QUA

Qualitative methods in organizational research : a practical guide edited by Catherine Cassell and Gillian Symon, London : SAGE, 1994.

3.001 QUA

Qualitative research : theory, method and practice edited by David Silverman. London: SAGE, 1997.

3.001 QUA

Qualitative research : theory, method and practice edited by David Silverman. 2nd edition. London: SAGE, 2004.

3.001 QUA

Qualitative research : theory, method and practice edited by David Silverman. 3rd edition. London : SAGE, 2010.

3.001 QUA

Qualitative research practice edited by Clive Seale, Giampietro Gobo, Jaber F. Gubrium and David Silverman. London : SAGE, 2004.

3.001 RES

Research design. Vols. I-IV edited by David de Vaus. London : SAGE, 2006.

3.001 SAG

The SAGE handbook of action research : participative inquiry and practice edited by Peter Reason, Hilary Bradbury. 2nd edition. Los Angeles, Calif. ; London : SAGE, 2008.

3.001 SAG

The SAGE handbook of innovation in social research methods. Los Angeles: SAGE, 2011.

3.001 SAG

The SAGE handbook of qualitative research edited by Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln. 3rd edition. Thousand Oaks: SAGE, 2005.

3.001 SAG

The SAGE handbook of social science methodology edited by William Outhwaite and Stephen P. Turner. London : SAGE, 2007.

3.001 SAG

The SAGE handbook of social research methods edited by Pertti Alasuutari, Leonard Bickman and Julia Brannen. London : SAGE, 2008.

3.001 SCH

Questions and answers in attitude surveys : experiments on question form, wording and context by Howard Schuman and Stanley Presser. Thousand Oaks : SAGE, 1996.

3.001 SCH

Qualitative inquiry: a dictionary of terms by Thomas A. Schwandt. Thousand Oaks : SAGE, 1997.

3.001 SIL

Interpreting qualitative data : methods for analysing talk, text and interaction, by David Silverman. London : SAGE, 1993.

3.001 STR

Basics of qualitative research : techniques and procedures for developing grounded theory by Anselm Strauss and Juliet Corbin. London : SAGE, 1998.

3.001 STR

Action research : a handbook for practitioners by Ernest T. Stringer. Thousand Oaks : SAGE, 1996.

3.001 VAN

Engaged scholarship : a guide for organizational and social research by Andrew H. Van de Ven. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

3.001 WAS

Social network analysis : methods and applications by Stanley Wasserman and Katherine Faust. USA : Cambridge University Press, 1994.

3.001 WOL

The art of fieldwork by Harry F. Wolcott. Walnut Creek : Altamira, 1995.

3.001 WOL

Writing up qualitative research by Harry F. Wolcott. 3rd edition. Los Angeles : SAGE, c2009.

3.001 YIN

Case study research : design and methods by Robert K. Yin. 2nd edition. Thousand Oaks : SAGE, 1994.

3.001 YIN

Case study research : design and methods by Robert K. Yin. 3rd edition. London : SAGE, 2003.

3.001 YIN

Case study research : design and methods by Robert K. Yin. 4th edition. Los Angeles, Calif. :  SAGE, 2009

3.001:172 OLI

The student's guide to research ethics by Paul Oliver. Maidenhead : Open University Press, 2003.

3.001.5 RAG

Constructing social research : the unity and diversity of method by Charles C. Ragin. Thousand Oaks : SAGE, 1994.

30 SOC

Capitalism and modern social theory : an analysis of the writings of Marx, Durkheim and Max Weber by Anthony Giddens. Cambridge : University Press, 1971.

35 OXF

The Oxford handbook of public management by edited by Ewan Ferlie ; Laurence E. Lynn ; Christopher Pollitt. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

39 HAN

Handbook of ethnography edited by Paul Atkinson et al. London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2001.

301.186 RAM

The new science of organizations : a reconceptualization of the wealth of nations by Alberto Guerreiro Ramos. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1984, c1981.

301.186 WEB

The theory of social and economic organization by Max Weber ; translated by A.M. Henderson and Talcott Parsons ; edited with an introduction by Talcott Parsons. New York : Free Press, 1997.

303.1 DAT

Data collection and analysis edited by Roger Sapsford and Victor Jupp. London : SAGE in association with the Open University, 1996.

303.1 NEU

Social research methods : qualitative and quantitative approaches by W. Lawrence Neuman. 5th edition. Boston : Pearson Education, Inc., 2003.

303.2 SAG

The SAGE handbook of measurement edited by Geoffrey Walford ; Eric Tucker ; Madhu Viswanathan. Los Angeles : SAGE, 2010.

303.621.33 FOD

Constructing questions for interviews and questionnaires : theory and practice in social research by William Foddy. Cambridge : University Press, 1993.

330.19(4) HAN

Handbook on third sector policy in Europe edited by Jeremy Kendall. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar, 2009.

334.012.46 HAN

Handbook of research on nonprofit economics and management edited by Bruce A. Seaman and Dennis R. Young. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar, 2010.

335.469.1 SNO

Friendly fire : the accidental shootdown of US Black Hawks over Northern Iraq by Scott A Snook. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2002.

355.02:159.9 JAN

Groupthink : psychological studies of policy decisions and fiascoes by Irving L. Janis. 2nd edition. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c1982.

378.4 BAR + ebook

The idea of higher education by Ronald Barnett. Buckingham : SRHE and the Open University Press, 1990. Internet link to full text available via library catalogue.

519.22 DIA

Taking the fear out of data analysis : a step-by-step approach by Adamantios Diamantopoulos and Bodo B. Sclegelmilch. London : The Dryden Press, 1997.

613.6:614.2 HAN

Handbook of human factors and ergonomics in health care and patient safety edited by Pascale Carayon. Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2007.

65.001 BUS

Business and Management Research Methodologies. Vols. 1-6 edited by Phil Johnson and Murray Clark. London : SAGE, 2006.

65.001 EAS

Management research : an introduction by Mark Easterby-Smith, Richard Thorpe and Andy Lowe. 3rd edition. London : SAGE, 2008.

65.001 ERI

Qualitative methods in business research by Päivi Eriksson and Anne Kovalainen. Los Angeles ; London : SAGE, 2008.

65.001 ESS + ebook

Essential skills for management research edited by David Partington. London : SAGE, 2002. Internet link to full text available via library catalogue.

65.001 GIL

Research methods for managers by John Gill, Phil Johnson ; with Murray Clark. 4th edition. Los Angeles : SAGE, 2010.

65.001 GUM

Qualitative methods in management research by Evert Gummesson. 2nd edition. Thousand Oaks, NJ : SAGE, 2000.

65.001 HAN

Handbook of collaborative management research edited by A.B. (ramio) Shani, Susan Albers Mohrman, William A. Pasmore. Thousand Oaks, NJ : SAGE, 2008.

65.001 LOC

Grounded theory in management research by Karen Locke. London : SAGE, 2001.

65.001 RES

Research methodology in strategy and management. Vols. 1-4 edited by David J. Ketchen and Donald D. Bergh. Amsterdam : Elsevier/JAI, 2007.

65.001 THI

Doing management research : a comprehensive guide by Raymond Thietart et al.  London : SAGE, 2001.

65.012 CZA

A theory of organizing by Barbara Czarniawska. Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, 2008.

65.012 SAG

The SAGE handbook of new approaches in management and organization edited by Daved Barry and Hans Hansen. London : SAGE, 2008.

65.012.21 ROB

Problem-solving in groups by Mike Robson. Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Gower, c2002.

65.013 CHI

Organization : contemporary principles and practice by John Child. Blackwell Publishing, 2004.

65.013 HAN

Handbook of organization studies edited by Stewart R. Clegg, Cynthia Hardy and Walter R. Nord. London : SAGE, 1996.

65.013 HAT

Organization theory : modern, symbolic and postmodern perspectives by Mary Jo Hatch with Ann L. Cunliffe. 2nd edition. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006.

65.013 JOH + ebook

Understanding management research : an introduction to epistemology by Phil Johnson and Joanne Duberley. London : SAGE, 2000. Internet link to full text available via library catalogue.

65.013 SAG

The SAGE handbook of organizational research methods edited by David Buchanan and Alan Bryman. London : SAGE, 2009.

65.013 PFE + ebook

New directions for organization theory : problems and prospects by Jeffrey Pfeffer. New York : OUP, 1997. Internet link to full text available via library catalogue.

65.013.6 PED

A manager's guide to self-development by Mike Pedler, John Burgoyne, Tom Boydell.  Maidenhead : McGraw-Hill Professional, 2007.

65.013.6 WIN

Personal effectiveness: a guide to action by Diana Winstanley. London : Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, 2005.

65.013.61 SAG

The SAGE handbook of leadership edited by Alan Bryman et al. London : SAGE, 2011.

65.014 CLE

Modern organizations : organization studies in the postmodern world by Stewart Clegg.  London: SAGE, 1990.

65.014 MAN + ebook

Managers learning in action edited by David Coghlan et al. London : Routledge, 2004. Internet link to full text available via library catalogue.

65.014 PER

Complex organizations : a critical essay by Charles Perrow. New York : McGraw-Hill, 1986. 

65.014 SCO

Organizations : rational, natural and open systems by W. Richard Scott. New Jersey : Prentice Hall, 2003.

65.014.1 MAP + ebook

Mapping strategic knowledge edited by Anne Sigismund Huff and Mark Jenkins. London : SAGE, 2002. Internet link to full text available via library catalogue.

65.016.4 ADV

Advances in mergers and acquisitions. Vols. 1-7 edited by Cary L. Cooper, Sydney Finkelstein. Oxford : JAI, 2004.

65.081 TSO + ebook

Complex knowledge: studies in organizational epistemology by Haridimos Tsoukas. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005. Internet link to full text available via library catalogue.

658.11 FOU

Foundations of cross cultural management. Vols. 1-4 edited by Mark F. Peterson and Mikael Søndergaard.Thousand Oaks, CA : SAGE, 2008.

658.8.012 BEA

Handbook of marketing scales: multi-term measures for marketing and consumer behaviour research by William O. Bearden. 2nd edition. SAGE, 1998.

658.8.012 MAL

Basic marketing research: a decision making approach by Naresh K. Malhotra. 3rd edition. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Education, 2008.

658.81 OXF

Oxford handbook of strategic sales and sales management edited by David W. Cravens ; Kenneth Le Meunier-FitzHugh ; Nigel F. Piercy. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.

681.31.06 GRI + ebook

SPSS for dummies by Arthur Griffith. 2nd edition. Hoboken, N.J. ; Chichester : John Wiley, 2010.

681.3.09 NOR

SPSS base 16.0 user's guide. Chicago, IL : SPSS, Inc., 2007.

681.31.06 BUR

Business research methods and statistics using SPSS by Robert B. Burns and Richard A. Burns. London : SAGE, 2008.

681.31.06 CAR

Doing data analysis with SPSS version 16 by Robert H. Carver and Jane Gradwohl Nash. Belmont, CA : Brooks/Cole Cengage Learning, 2009.

681.31.06 FIE

Discovering Statistics Using SPSS, 3rd Ed + SPSS CD Version 17.0 by Andy Field. SAGE, 2009.

681.31.06 GRI

SPSS for dummies by Arthur Griffith. Hoboken, NJ : Wiley ; Chichester : John Wiley, 2007.

681.31.06 NOR

SPSS 16.0 advanced statistical procedures companion by Marija J. Norusis. Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall, 2008.

681.31.06 NOR

SPSS 16.0 guide to data analysis by Marija J. Norusis. Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall, 2008.

681.31.06 NOR

SPSS 16.0 statistical procedures companion by Marija J. Norusis. Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall, 2008.

681.31.06 PAL

SPSS survival manual : a step by step guide to data analysis using SPSS for Windows by Julie Pallant. 3rd edition. Maidenhead, England ; New York : McGraw Hill/Open University Press, 2007.

8.081 BAI

Academic writing : a handbook for international students by Stephen Bailey. 2nd edition. London ; New York: Routledge, 2006.

8.081 BEL

Writing your journal article in 12 weeks : a guide to academic publishing success by Wendy Laura Belcher.  Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, c2009.

8.081 LOC

Reading and understanding research by Lawrence F. Locke, Stephen J. Silverman, Waneen Wyrick Spirduso. Los Angeles : SAGE, c2010.

8.081 MIL

The Chicago guide to writing about numbers by Jane E. Miller. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.

8.081 OXF

The Oxford style manual edited and compiled by R.M. Ritter. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.

8.081 SHA

The management of a student research project by John A. Sharp, John Peters and Keith Howard. 3rd edition. Aldershot : Gower, 2002.

8.081 SIL

How to write a lot : a practical guide to productive academic writing by Paul J. Silvia. Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, c2007.

8.081:5 DEA

Science research writing for non-native speakers of English by Hilary Glasman-Deal.  London ; Hackensack, NJ : Imperial College Press, 2010.

8.083 CHI

The Chicago manual of style. 15th edition. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2003.

801.5 ECO

Style guide. 9th edition. Profile Books, 2005.

802 ROS

Reading, etc. : an integrated skills text by Robert L. Roseberry, Rachel Weinstock. Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Prentice Hall Regents, 1992.

Updated by Mary Betts-Gray September 2011.

 


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