- Paperback: 368 pages
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; First edition (17 Jan 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0333607058
- ISBN-13: 978-0333607053
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.6 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 311,388 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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- Donna O'Brien, euphoric, nearly-finished dissertation student
I purchased this book some time ago and am now in the throes of a dissertation at Sheffield University. I just wanted to say thank you for writing such a wonderful book that explains everything really logically and is also inspiring and interesting! Yes, I never thought I would say that about research methods! It's worth every penny!
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"With an excellent new chapter on Troubleshooting, this text remains the best-value and most easily accessible textbook for students taking a Management or Accounting degree. Thoroughly recommended."
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I was given this book by my disseration tutor to help me write my methodology for my MSc. I liked it so much, I bought the company. No, really I liked it so much I bought my own.
Not only did it help me explain my methodology, it offered advice on how to get started on the chapters I didn't know what to do with, what to do if I'd done nothing and the deadline loomed, how to analyse my data without killing myself over it and provided numerous examples of other peoples work. Despite having never written a dissertation before I feel confident that I'm on the right lines, and know where I'll turn if it all goes wrong and my tutor is unavailable. In fact I wish I'd bought it before I'd even started as the advice on chosing a research area would have been very useful in selecting a topic.
I can't recommend it enough. It may be a bit more pricey than some, but it offers much much more. If you're reading this knowing you'll never get it done, or not knowing what to do, this book can only help, and it won't make you feel a fool while you're doing it either.
PS I'd like to thak the authors for providing sensible, readable and valuable advice during the most stressful period of my academic career. You're as good as therapy and much cheaper!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Hussey & Hussey is a must for anyone doing an academic research especially if its a post graduate research. I found it was very informative and thought provoking in that research has to be seen to be unbiased.
The skills attained from using the book to complete my MBA dissertation is now part of the way I review and consider issues around me.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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This thoroughly updated Second Edition is now an excellent introduction for both undergraduate and Masters students. The writing is clear, focussed and very student-friendly, with a minimum of jargon, and the structure of the book is also very clear. It will help students from the outset - choosing a research question - to the writing up and presentation of the results of their research project. It has a very good (if somewhat simplistic) chapter on overall research paradigms, which I have found to be especially useful for students undertaking a qualitative project for the first time. It has considerably more intellectual validity than many texts on 'case-study methods', as it is more in tune with current trends in qualitative research.
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An excellent book. This book was recommended to me at the start of my MA course. The book is broken down into learning modules, its easy to understand and explains all the... Read more
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Great research module and dissertation
These guys seem to have the market locked up for this subject as a number of dissertations I've read quote these writers. Read more
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Vital for your dissertation
My MBA Dissertation Supervisor recommended this book before I started anything. I figured it was going to be dry, but it was written in a way that was easy to read. Read more
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Essential reading for Post-grad research students
Very easy to follow, but in no way is this dumbing down research methods. At University of Winchester, Masters course in Business Management this is the one and only set book for... Read more
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Fantastic!
I've read several books on how to get a PhD and how to do business research, but this is the best of the lot, if you ask me. Read more
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Excellent guide for business research methodology
I was given this book by my tutor during my MSc dissertation research and I got exactly what I wanted: clear yet comprehensive explanations why and how to select the research... Read more
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An invaluable guide to writing a dissertation
This book is probably the best coursework book I had on my MSc course. It clearly lays out how to approach a dissertation from start to finish. Read more
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