John A Sharp is Professor of Management in the Canterbury Business School, University of Kent. He has taught in a variety of areas and has long been associated with doctoral student training. John Peters is Editorial Director of an academic publishing firm, and a visiting fellow at the Universities of North London and Bradford. Keith Howard was Chairman of Doctoral Programmes at the University of Bradford Management Centre and currently holds several company directorships.

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• Contents: Part A Preparation: Research and the research student; Selecting and justifying a research project; Planning the research project; Literature searching. Part B Data Analysis and Gathering: Analysing the data; Gathering the data. Part C Producing the Research Results: Executing the research; Presentation of the research findings. Appendices: An example of topic analysis; A select bibliography on student research; Books and articles cited in the main text. Index.

John A Sharp is Professor of Management in the Canterbury Business School, University of Kent. He has taught in a variety of areas and has long been associated with doctoral student training. John Peters is Editorial Director of an academic publishing firm, and a visiting fellow at the Universities of North London and Bradford. Keith Howard was Chairman of Doctoral Programmes at the University of Bradford Management Centre and currently holds several company directorships.

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• Contents: Part A Preparation: Research and the research student; Selecting and justifying a research project; Planning the research project; Literature searching. Part B Data Analysis and Gathering: Analysing the data; Gathering the data. Part C Producing the Research Results: Executing the research; Presentation of the research findings. Appendices: An example of topic analysis; A select bibliography on student research; Books and articles cited in the main text. Index.

John A Sharp is Professor of Management in the Canterbury Business School, University of Kent. He has taught in a variety of areas and has long been associated with doctoral student training. John Peters is Editorial Director of an academic publishing firm, and a visiting fellow at the Universities of North London and Bradford. Keith Howard was Chairman of Doctoral Programmes at the University of Bradford Management Centre and currently holds several company directorships.

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• Contents: Part A Preparation: Research and the research student; Selecting and justifying a research project; Planning the research project; Literature searching. Part B Data Analysis and Gathering: Analysing the data; Gathering the data. Part C Producing the Research Results: Executing the research; Presentation of the research findings. Appendices: An example of topic analysis; A select bibliography on student research; Books and articles cited in the main text. Index.