Business
From Library Reference
Print Reference Sources
Business, The Ultimate Resource REF. HD 38.15 .B878 2002
Business Statistics of the United States REF. HA 3001 .B875 2007
Encyclopedia of Management REF. HD 30.15 .E49 2000
Encyclopedia of Leadership REF. HD 57.7 .E53 2004
Handbook of Effective Management: How to Manage or Supervise Strategically REF. HD 38.15 .H86 2006
Online Business Reference Sources
NOTE: These are licensed e-books and require Bradley login and password for off-campus access.
Global Business Etiquette: A Guide To International Communication And Customs
Understanding American Business Jargon: A Dictionary
We Are Smarter Than Me The first online, networked business book.
Indexes & Databases
NOTE: These are subscription databases and require Bradley login and password for off-campus access.
ABI Inform
ABI Inform provides citations, abstracts, and some full-text articles on business and management topics from U.S. and international publications; it is useful for finding scholarly articles. ABI Inform is also good for narrowing searches, due to its robust indexing and search capabilities.
Business Source Elite Business Source Elite provides full text coverage for nearly 1,100 business publications and economics journals, including nearly 500 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 1,800 journals. Business Source Elite contains full text from the world's top management and marketing journals including Business Week, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, California Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Industrial & Labor Relations Review, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Marketing Management, Journal of Marketing Research (JMR), Journal of Marketing, Journal of International Marketing, etc. This database includes full text (PDF) coverage dating back as far as 1985, and detailed company profiles for the world's 10,000 largest companies (from Datamonitor). This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.
Euromonitor--Passport Markets. Global consumer market information, with demographics, trends and developments, market background, market sizes and forecasts, market shares, key players, and company profiles. You will also find demographic, economic and marketing statistics for countries all over the world. PROVIDED THROUGH THE GENEROSITY OF THE CATERPILLAR FOUNDATION.
Factiva Factiva is a full-text database that comprises a collection of more than 10,000 authoritative sources, including The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times™, Dow Jones and Reuters newswires and the Associated Press, as well as D&B company profiles. Business students find Factiva useful for research on publicly traded companies, industry information, and marketing research. Factiva has robust search capabilities that make it particularly useful for hard-to-find and highly specific information needs.
Lexis-Nexis is a full-text, business, legal, and reference database. Business information includes company profile information, company financial information, and industry information. Information is included for both publicly and privately owned corporations and for international as well as U.S. companies. Lexis-Nexis is also a good resource for magazines, newspapers, and journals (including the New York Times) and a prime resource for legal information--both statutory and case law. The legal section of Lexis-Nexis includes regulatory information, international legal information, and law reviews. The Reference section of Lexis-Nexis includes Roper Poll data, country profiles, state profiles, and biograpical information.
A number of additional electronic resources of interest to business researchers are available from the Library’s web page. See Journals, Magazines, & Newspapers by Subject on the library's web page for a complete and up-to-date listing.
All Subjects/Multidisciplinary indexes and databases.
--updated by Bryan Clark, baclark@bradley.edu, 9:42, 18 August 2009 (CDT)
Industry Surveys & Company Information
For detailed information on finding Comany and Industry Information, see:
Company and Industry Information
--updated by Bryan Clark, baclark@bradley.edu, 9:43, 18 August 2009 (CDT)
Selected Economic Indicators And Statistics
Economic Indicators
This monthly publication of the Council of Economic Advisors provides information on U.S. economic indicators such as output, income and spending, employment and wages, production and business activity, prices, money, credit and securities markets, and Federal finance. Economic Indicators is available directly from the above linked web site, but is also available as a print-on-paper journal in the Library's 2nd floor journal collection and is indexed in several library electronic resources, such as EBSCO Business Source Elite and Expanded Academic Index.
Resources for Economists on the Internet (RFE)
RFE is a web site with links to thousands of sites providing economic and related statistics.
Economagic
Economagic links to time series economic data on the web.
2009 Statistical Abstract of the United States & Previous Editions of the Statistical Abstract of the United States
The Statistical Abstract of the United States is the standard compendium of of statistics compiled primarily from government sources. Print-on-paper copies of the Statistical Abstract are also available in the Library, with the latest edition at the Reference Desk and earlier editions in the Reference Stacks and the Government Documents Stacks.
REF. HA 202 (Reference Desk)
STAT-USA STAT-USA is a subscription database containing national and international economic and trade statistics. Access is free, if you log in through a Bradley account.
--updated by Bryan Clark, baclark@bradley.edu, 9:44, 18 August 2009 (CDT)
Useful Business Information Web Sites & Search Engines
B&E DataLinks: Econ & Financial Data Sources American Statistical Association site indexes sources of domestic and international business and economic data.
Bureau of Economic Analysis U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis web site includes National Income & Product Accounts data.
BEOnline Plus The Library of Congress's Business Reference Services division selections for useful web sites.
Inc.com High-quality, reliable articles on a wide variety of business topics.
Big Charts Big Charts provides charts for over 50,000 listed companies and indexes.
Biznar Federated searching of business web sites, goverment sites, & blogs.
Business Ethics Business Ethics Site
The Conference Board Business statistics, trends, economic indicators, and consumer confidence statistics are available from The Conference Board web site.
CorpWatch CorpWatch is a globalization issues site.
Corporate Social Responsibility
Market Watch Free to registered users.
OFFSTATS: Official Statistics on the Web A comprehensive, useful, and well maintained (by the University of Auckland's Library) collection of links to free, official statistics resources.
Wachowicz's Web World Web sites for discerning finance students. Designed to supplement the textbook, Fundamentals of Financial Management, but contains links to a wealth of business and financial information.
Search Engines
Google Government Information Search
--updated by Bryan Clark, baclark@bradley.edu, 9:45, 18 August 2009 (CDT)
Encyclopedias
Encyclopedia of computers and computer history. REF QA76.15 .E53 2001
Encyclopedia of computer science. REF QA76.15 .E48 2000
The Network Press encyclopedia of networking. REF TK5105.5 .F45 2000
Handbooks
Milestones in computer science and information technology. REF QA76 .R434 2003
Coloring Web graphics.2 REF TK5105.888 .W454171997
Expert systems : the technology of knowledge management and decision making for the 21st century REF. QA76.76.E95 L464 2002
A glossary of netspeak and textspeak REF. QA76.15 .C79 2004
Dictionaries
Webster's new world dictionary of computer terms. REF QA76.15 .P395 2000
The UNIX dictionary of commands, terms, and acronyms. REF QA76.76.O63 U5451341996
Dictionary of computer science, engineering, and technology. REF QA76.15 .D5258 2001
Collins Dictionary of Computing
Webster's New World Computer Dictionary
Hargrave's Communications Dictionary, Wiley
Useful Management Information Systems Web Sites & Search Engines
All Business: Managing IT Threats
American Productivity and Quality Center An internationally recognized consulting organization that provides substantial material on knowledge management use in business.
bettermanagement.com Present information technology management issues
bitpipe.com A guide to online resources for IT pros.
brint.com Premiere site for information relating to e-business, technology, and knowledge management. Includes comprehensive resource links to news, articles, websites, directories, forums, and discussion groups.
CERIAS.com The Center for Education and Research In Information Assurance and Security
The Electronic Journal of Information Systems Evaluation
The Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management
Informing Science Institute Publications on Information Technologies
ISWorld.netProvides numerous links to resources related to research, teaching, and professional activities.
KM WorldThis site gives a look at the market side of Knowledge Management.
Knowledge Management Resource CenterA comprehensive collection of knowledge management resources.
Knowledge Nurture A knowledge management learning resource.
Management Information Systems Research Center, Working papers The MIS Research Center at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota offers a prepublication working paper series from their researchers.
National Workforce Center for Emerging Technologies
NIST Computer Security Division:Computer Security Resource Center
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--updated by Bryan Clark, baclark@bradley.edu, 9:47, 18 August 2009 (CDT)
