Research methods - a case example of participant observation

Electronic Journal of Business Research Methods

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 39-46

  Iacono, Jessica ^a   Brown, Ann ^b   Holtham, Clive ^b  

^a Corus International Trading Limited ^*  (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Longitudinal case work; Participant observation; Qualitative data; Qualitative research methods; Steel trading case

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878049366     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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