Bill Harley – författare

Den här klassikern ger en pedagogisk och heltäckande introduktion till företagsekonomiska forskningsmetoder. Genom sin bredd passar den för både grundläggande och avancerade kurser.

Författarna presenterar och diskuterar de flesta metoder inom såväl kvantitativ som kvalitativ forskning. De visar också hur man kan kombinera dessa metoder.

Företagsekonomiska forskningsmetoder är särskilt lämplig för studenter som ska genomföra ett forskningsprojekt. Författarna vägleder läsaren genom hela processen: från formulering av forskningsfrågor och litteraturgenomgång till utformning av frågeformulär, dataanalys och presentation av forskningsresultat. Boken är även en värdefull läranderesurs tack vare detaljerade beskrivningar av de metoder som används av erfarna forskare och de filosofiska och etiska problem som forskare kan ställas inför.

Denna fjärde upplaga, som är en översättning av den sjätte upplagan av Business Research Methods, är grundligt reviderad och uppdaterad med den senaste forskningen.

Om författarna

Alan Bryman var professor vid University of Leicester. Emma Bell är professor vid Open University. Bill Harley är professor vid University of Melbourne.

Översatt av Linnéa Holmén

When her mother dies, fifteen-year-old Mari is desperate to avoid being caught up in the foster system. Again. And to complicate matters, she is now the only one who can take care of her super-smart and on-the-spectrum nine-year-old stepbrother, Conor.

Is there anyone Mari can trust to help them? Certainly not her mother’s current boyfriend, Dennis. Not the doctors or her teachers, who would be obliged to call in social services. So in a desperate move, Mari takes Conor and sets out to find their estranged grandmother, hoping to throw themselves at the mercy of the only person who might take them in.

On their way to New England, the duo experience the snarls of LA traffic, the backroads of the Midwest, and a monumental stop in Missouri where they witness the solar eclipse, an event with which Conor is obsessed. Mari also learns about the inner workings of her stepbrother’s mind and about her connections to him and to the world … and maybe even a little about her own place in it.

A beautiful exploration of identity and family, this heartwarming and engaging middle grade novel comes from renowned storyteller and two-time Grammy Award winner Bill Harley.

When his father takes a new job in Massachusetts, Ben Moroney must leave behind his best friend Tony, a western banded gecko named Lenny, and worst of all, the Arizona desert home he has loved and explored.

Ben’s adjustment to his new environment is not going well until he unexpectedly finds a kindred spirit in his eccentric fifth-grade science teacher, Mrs. Tibbets. She introduces him to the rare and elusive Eastern spadefoot toads that make their home on her rural property. When Ben discovers that Mrs. Tibbets’s land may be sold to developers, he knows he has to do something.

As Ben’s obsession with saving the spadefoot toads’ habitat grows, his schoolwork and his relationships with his family and new friends suffer. But just when it seems things can’t get any worse, Ben finds a way to meet his responsibilities to the people around him and demonstrates the importance of even the smallest efforts to save the earth’s rapidly disappearing habitats.

A beloved exploration of important environmental themes, this appealing middle grade novel comes from renowned storyteller and two-time Grammy Award winner Bill Harley.