Publisher's Synopsis
Encyclopaedia of Research Methods for Business: A Skill Building Approach gathers, analyses, interprets and reports information so that business decision makers become more effective. The skill-building approach provides students with practical perspectives on how research can be applied in real business situations. The book Business Research Methods Principles and Applications covering both traditional fields of business administration and cross-functional, multidisciplinary research that reflects the complex character of business problems. Of particular interest are topics devoted to developing novel perspectives or exploring new domains of research. Business Research is not tied to any particular subfield, type of analysis, or national context. First chapter describes the goal of providing an innovative cultural/ scientific e-product related to astrophysical knowledge from an e-business point of view in order to take advantage of this perspective to obtain a successful result. The risk research of traditional retail develop e-business with factor analysis is presented in second chapter. Third chapter describes about pricing models in marketing research. Fourth chapter illustrates that the structure is olive-like, in which the risk of data import is on the top, and the risk of senior managers is on the bottom. An innovative use of spatial sampling designs is presented in fifth chapter. Sixth chapter aims to search what are the methods that project members use to learn in a product development context. Seventh chapter examines two forms of research alliances: single applicants with subcontractor(s) and membership in a joint venture. Eighth chapter gives a comprehensive overview of the commonly used terms jugaad, frugal innovation, frugal engineering, constraint-based innovation, Gandhian innovation, catalytic innovation, grassroots innovation, indigenous innovation, and reverse innovation. The objective of ninth chapter is to analyze the structure of sale, interrelationship between data variables and define a business strategy to find maximum output by using minimum resources. Tenth chapter sought to investigate the impact of leadership styles and business strategy on the organizational performance of small medium scale enterprises (SMEs) in the manufacturing sector of Ghana. In eleventh chapter, we present a comprehensive availability modeling and sensitivity analysis of a DCell-based DCN with server virtualization for business continuity using stochastic reward nets (SRN). Twelfth chapter reveals that Micro, Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (MSMEs) are dominated by youth and female operators usually with low level of education. Last chapter provides a detailed analysis of P2P computing and offers some propositions to answer the question of the relevancy of P2P.
