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Case Study Research – The Quick Guide Series. Although the case study research method is increasingly important and used by many researchers it is still not well understood. Case Study Research in the Quick Guides Series explains the main issues which have to be considered before case study research is undertaken as well as providing check lists as to how to go about using this research approach. ISBN: 978-1-908272-40-9

Writing up your Research – The Quick Guide Series. There are always challenges in writing up your research. Sometimes the problem is to do with the process of the actual writing itself and other times it concerns how to ensure that all the aspects of the research which have to be mentioned in a research dissertation are included in the right place and to an appropriate level. If this is addressed appropriately, writing up can be accomplished relatively easily, but if it isn’t managed well writing up can become a burdensome event. ISBN: 978-1-908272-27-0

Research Supervision for Supervisors and their Students. 2nd Edition. Research degrees remain a challenge for both supervisors and the researchers whom they are trying to help. It is more challenging than ever to find a good doctorial programme and it is difficult to manage all the different facets of a research degree that have to be attended to. Not everyone who thinks it is a good idea to undertake a research degree will be successful and this book indicates the characteristics which are required to produce high quality academic research. ISBN: 0-9547096-0-8

Field Methods for Academic Research - Interviews, focus groups and questionnaires. Interviews, focus groups and questionnaires are everyday tools of the academic researcher in business and management studies. Most research degrees and many academic peer reviewed journal papers have employed one or more of these techniques. Ironically the knowledge and skills required to use these tools are not often well taught and the books available on these topics can be daunting. ISBN: 978-1-906638-96-2

Ethics Protocols and Research Ethics Committees. Conducting research to high ethical standards is of great importance to the student and the university. Having an Ethics Protocol is the way of ensuring such standards can be met. Researching with the use of an approved Ethics Protocol also affords protection to the student.Many research degree candidates need advice to help complete an application for the approval of their Ethics Protocol. This book shows how to do this in a practical and effective way. ISBN:978-1-906638-99-3

An Introduction to Statistics using Microsoft Excel. This is an unusual statistics book in that it contains very few mathematical formulae. This book explains the statistical concepts and then uses Microsoft Excel functions to illustrate how to get results using the appropriate techniques which will help researchers directly with their research. To facilitate learning the book uses lots of examples and because statistics is one of those subjects which is really only ever understood after a considerable amount of practice, data files have been made available on the web for readers' use. ISBN 978-1-906638-55-9

Case Studies in Knowledge Management for Researchers, Teachers and Students. Knowledge management continues to play an important role in management practice, in private and public organisations, in community informatics and in other groups. Once thought of as a fad it is now clear that knowledge management is an important issue which all organisations face and will continue to face for the foreseeable future. ISBN 978-1-908272-26-3

Case Studies in e-Government. There are individuals who believe that e-Government is one of the most important applications of ICT since the development of the Internet and the web in the last decade of the 20th century. This view is based on the fact that everyone in a modern society has to regularly interact with some part of the government. Interaction with the government has traditionally been a time consuming chore which often led to frustration. e-Government has the potential to make citizens relationships with government much more satisfactory by reducing and simplifying the way in which they can communicate and transact with government. ISBN: 978-1-908272-33-1

Small Business: Journey to Success. This book highlights the issues required to be mastered for the success of a small business over the short term, medium term and the long term.  The ideas and concepts required are fully discussed and are supported by many interesting and relevant examples. It has written for a number of audiences. It provides a guide to those who wish to launch a small business and it will also prove invaluable for those already on their way to business success. Additionally Small Business: Journey to Success provides a solid text to build either an undergraduate or a post graduate course on small business success. ISBN: 978-1-908272-39-3

Strategy-Technology Alignment: Deriving Business Value from ICT Projects. It has been known for quite some time that ICT can directly improve corporate performance if it is employed in an appropriate way. There are many stories of how organisations have been transformed by the use of this technology. However it is also known that it is not a simple task to employ ICT effectively. Many organisations have spent considerable sums of money and had only very modest returns. ISBN 978-1-908272-11-9

Leading Issues in Social Knowledge Management. Perhaps one of the most surprising if not actually unsettling things about the Internet and the Web is that there is always something new on the horizon and that it is very difficult to see where this new technology will take us. When ICT was just about big computers and organisational systems it was pretty obvious where the technology was moving us. We all knew about Moore’s Law and that we were going to have greater capacity, smaller and faster devices every year. And during the 1990s and the first decade of the third millennium we all became used to what the Internet and the Web had to offer. But Social Software in the form of Web 2.0 is different. It has put technology in the hands of people who we would never have given it a second thought a few years ago. ISBN: 978-1-908272-38-6 

Leading Issues in Games Based Learning Research. It has been said that the future will never be the same again, which is undoubtedly true, as is the statement that learning will never the same again. Many of the old rules of learning are being swept away and it is increasingly realised that knowledge of “fact” is less important than understanding of situations. It is now well established that understanding can be facilitated by simulation, which is one of the principles on which games-based learning is founded. ISBN: 978-1-908272-24-9

Leading Issues in Innovation Research. Innovation is one of the main drivers of 21st century business but traditionally it has not been given the amount of attention by academic research which it deserves. Innovation was for many years treated as a subsection of economic theory and was therefore largely dealt with in rather abstract terms. Business and management studies did not closely engage in how innovation can be encouraged and managed and harvested. ISBN:978-1-908272-24-9

Leading Issues in Knowledge Management Research. Knowledge management is one of the most enduring concepts aimed at how to improve management efficiency, effectiveness and competitive advantage. It was originally thought to be a fad, but instead of being of interest for 5 to 10 years like other fads it has been at least 20 years since it became an issue in modern times. ISBN: 978-1-906638-88-7

Leading Issues in e-Government. e-Government with its potential to improve the efficiency and the effectiveness of the bureaucracy which manages our society  remains one of the most important issue facing us today. This book is a collection of research papers which focus on leading edge issues in e-Government. The research reported here has been conducted in several countries by leading academics in the field. ISBN: 978-1-906638-89-4

Leading Issues in Business Research Methods. This is a collection of 11 important Research Methodology Papers which will be of particular value to those who have a dissertation to write be it for an undergraduate degree, for a masters or even a doctorate. In addition the book has much to offer academic supervisors. The papers here are reproduced from those published in the Electronic Journal of Business Research Methods. ISBN 978-1-906638-87-0

Leading Issues in Information Warfare & Security. As virtually every aspect of society becomes increasingly dependent on information and communications technology, so our vulnerability to attacks on this technology increases. This is a major theme of this collection of leading edge research papers. At the same time there is another side to this issue, which is if the technology can be used against society by the purveyors of malware etc., then technology may also be used positively in the pursuit of society’s objectives. Specific topics in the collection include Cryptography and Steganography, Cyber Antagonism, Information Sharing Between Government and Industry as a Weapon, Terrorist Use of the Internet, War and Ethics in Cyberspace to name just a few. ISBN: 978-1-908272-08-9