Issues in the analysis of focus groups: Generalisability, quantifiability, treatment of context and quotations

Qualitative Report

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 122-141

  Vicsek, Lilla ^a  

^a Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Analysis; Context; Focus group; Generalisation; Methodology; Quantifiability; Quotations

Indexed keywords

EID: 76349117470     PISSN: 10520147     EISSN: 21603715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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