Book Review: Arosha Adikaram, Tharusha Gooneratne, and Maduka Udunuwara. Crafting Your Research: A Guide to Management Students. Understanding Research Philosophy and Design. 2021. Stamford Lake (Pvt) Limited, Sri Lanka

consists of six chapters that captivate the reader's comprehension concerning research philosophy and design.Chapter One elaborates on key concepts of research philosophy, e.g., ontology, epistemology, methodology, and paradigm, and their linkages to research study. 1 Chapter Two explains the main features of research approaches -quantitative and qualitativeand how these approaches should be executed according to each strategic potential.Chapter Three identifies the key features of mixed methods research.The intent of Chapter Four and Five is to describe different strategies of inquiry under qualitative and quantitative research, respectively.Finally, Chapter Six focuses on some key terms and thoughts to clarify the jargon related to misunderstandings in research philosophy.Chapter One presents the famed aspects of research philosophy and widely accepted concepts that researchers should know, namely, ontology, epistemology, and methodology.Then, the Chapter explains the commonly employed research methodology to provide the proper knowledge to the researcher, so that he / she can proceed with data collection, analysis, and presentation.The researcher should decide how to find the answer to the research problem and questions without compromise.This criterion highly depends on the research philosophy underlying their problem and questions.