Doing Social Research and Publishing Results

This book provides a guide to such budding social researchers, who are non-native English speakers drawing examples from literature to show how to conduct a research, present research results, integrate with existing literature to draw conclusions through real-world examples. Existing English books teaching research methods and philosophy of academic research are written in 'academic English' and, it is hard for non-native English-speaking budding researchers to study and understand those books. Also, this book uses examples to show how to communicate with journal editors and peer reviewers to get published the research results as journal articles, book chapters or conference papers. This book connects different quantitative techniques, qualitative methodologies (case studies, phenomenology and ethnography and Grounded theory) as well as Mixed methods methodology through a single example. This book attempts to describe a holistic approach introducing a 10Ps model that incorporates the essential elements of the research process. The process focuses on combining philosophical framework and arguments from research results. This book focuses not only on conducting a research project, but also on the approach and procedures to be followed to achieve higher marks for course work assignments and publishing research articles in international journals.

This book shows how to create many papers from one research/data set to increase number of publications and citations. This book has fewer words and more illustrations, tables, figures, pictures and YouTube tutorial links.

This book outlines how to present test results in APA style for all the statistical test used in this book, using examples.

Connects different quantitative techniques, qualitative methodologies, and mixed methods methodology Fills the gap between the basic level and the complex/difficult level books and concepts Presents as colourful, attractive, and easy to read

Autorentext

Dr. Candauda Arachchige Saliya is a banking/financial scholar, with interests in the field sharpened during their previous occupations in Sri Lanka as a Banker/Accountant and further developed during their academic career in New Zealand. Saliya holds a Ph.D. from the Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand, an MBA specialized in Finance and Information Systems. Saliya is a member of several professional bodies including the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka (FCA), Certified Public Accountants (CPA) and Certified Management Accountants (CMA) in Sri Lanka, MICM (UK), and Professional Bankers in Sri Lanka. Saliya's international publications include 'The Oldest Profession' published in AAAJ, an A* journal, Qualitative Research in Financial Markets, International Journal of Money Banking and Finance, International Journal of Finance and Economics, Review of Economics and Finance, Advances in Climate Change Research, International Journal of International Women Society and Review of Behavioral Finance, Journal of Accounting in Emerging Economies, Accounting Forum and International Journal of Casestudies, International Journal of KIU and Journal of Applied Economic Sciences, etc.

Inhalt

Introduction.- Evolution of Western Research Methodology.- Qualitative vs Quantitative.- Research Types and Approaches.- The 10 Elements of Academic Research (10ps).- Articulation of Research Problem.- Literature Review.- Data Collection.- Introduction.- Data and Variables.- Relevant Statistical Concepts.- Statistical Testing Methods.- Structural Equation Modeling (Sem).- Econometrics.- Qualitative Startegies.- Narrative Research.- Case Studies.- Phenomenology.- Ethnography.- Grounded Theory.- Action Research.- Poetic Inquiry.- Mixed Methods Strategy.- Analysis.- Typologies and Graphics.- Discussion and Conclusions.- Writing Abstracts/Summaries.- The Publishing Process.- Cover Letters.- Addressing Reviewers' Critics.