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Now in its fifth edition, Business Research offers students a practical, hands-on guide throughout the research process, from literature review to writing up the results. Accessible and clear, this much loved textbook provides the tools needed to embark on and successfully complete research projects. Its balance of practical advice, methodical approach and sound academic underpinning gives a comprehensive grounding in research methods, so that you can decide on the most appropriate way of collecting, analysing and presenting data. New to this Edition: - Expanded practical guidance on areas students find challenging, such as sampling, writing up research and presenting data. - Fully revised and refreshed to provide a more international perspective. Accompanying online resources for this title can be found at bloomsburyonlineresources.com/business-research. These resources are designed to support teaching and learning when using this textbook and are available at no extra cost.
Business Research provides a clear and practical guide for undergraduate research methods courses and individual research projects at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. The second edition retains the strong conceptual underpinning and practical orientation that has proved so popular with lecturers and students and introduces a number of new features.
This textbook provides an accessible introduction to accounting, giving a clear and concise overview of financial accounting, management accounting and financial management. Using international examples, cases and real company data to contextualise the theory, the authors explain the key concepts in a logical fashion, providing students with a theoretical and practical foundation in the subject. In particular, the running case study helps students to keep applying new concepts to a familiar context. The main author, Jill Collis, is an experienced author who has a proven ability to simplify difficult topics and communicate them in a clear and engaging way. This textbook has been developed spe...
The Business Briefings series offers authoritative introductory textbooks in core business topics. Covering the basics and providing springboards to further study, the books take a no-nonsense practical approach, and are ideal as accessible introductions or as revision guides. This book explains what is required for carrying out a successful research project. Clear and well-structured, it allows students to quickly grasp key concepts in research methodology, taking them through the various stages of developing a dissertation in a step-by-step guide. Key benefits: - Provides a concise and cogent guide to a challenging subject area - Provides a step-by-step guide to writing a dissertation Prof...
Business Accounting covers financial and management accounting in an accessible, non-technical style that is particularlysuitable for undergraduate students of business & finance and MBAs. The active-learning approach seeks to convey the ability to understand and evaluate financial information for a range of business services.
Written to meet the needs of busy undergraduate students, this book covers all of the key HRM topics in an accessible and engaging style. Ideal as a course companion, pre-course reading, or for revision.
Offering a student-friendly introduction to quantitative methods, this text covers all of the need to know basics in a clear and engaging manner. Quantitative Methods is an ideal text for students of all levels coming to the subject for first time.
Contemporary Issues in Accounting Regulation looks at accounting regulation in a different way. The opening chapters explore the tension between the power of the state and the forces of the market, and other aspects of the political dimension to accounting regulation. The book also examines the process of setting accounting standards, highlighting the crucial role of standard setters in assessing the level of public support for an issue in the face of opposing positions taken by powerful interest groups. In addition, the book provides an introduction to the theoretical framework of accounting regulation, looking at choices between controversial accounting methods and at markets that are characterized by asymmetry of information and beliefs. The final chapters of the book are concerned with creative accounting, deregulation of financial reporting by smaller companies, and the link between price regulation and accounting policy choices.
Offering a student-friendly introduction to marketing, this text covers all of the need to know basics in a clear and engaging manner. Marketing is an ideal text for students of all levels coming to the subject for first time.
Entrepreneurial Business and Society analyses contemporary research in the field of entrepreneurship and small business and explores the interplay between the entrepreneur, the entrepreneurial firm and society. The contributors highlight that entrepreneurship may also contribute to social change and that welfare and success could be measured in terms of their effect on society. Topics explored throughout the volume are the promotion of entrepreneurial businesses, entrepreneurial people and entrepreneurial sectors. The book will prove invaluable for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of entrepreneurship and small business. Entrepreneurship and small business researchers as well as policy makers will also find plenty of relevant information in this important resource.