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This site is the brainchild of and is written by a renowned lecturer with many years experience of helping business research students develop and deliver their projects. It has been co-developed and edited by an MBA graduate with extensive senior level business and publishing experience.

Think of the site as your ‘ready reference’ to Enjoying Business Research. It will be updated regularly with new key terms, blogs and explanatory articles.

We also need your participation – please contact the site managers to ask questions and in particular, to suggest further key terms you would like to see defined or subjects for future articles and blogs.

There are many different approaches to business research, and many books attempt to explain the entire history of the development of social science research methods. This typically does not give you the rapid access to information that you need. This site is intended to give you the information you need quickly, in a straightforward manner and without extensive historical discussion or philosophical debate.

Although the website is written for postgraduate students in business and management studies, students at all levels in any discipline will be able to enjoy their business research of live organizations by selecting suitable research tools and using them effectively and productively.

The site is designed for you to access key information in several ways. For example:

you may choose to follow each webpage sequentially to learn how to initiate, develop, and report a research project from scratch, or
you may click on individual weblinks on any webpage to select one or more research tools, in order to immediately apply them in a particular area of your research.

This Enjoying Business Research website will enable you to use practical tools for your business research that will maximize your enjoyment of researching live organizations.