Management

NOTE: The letter U next to the name of a resource indicates that it is a licensed electronic service that UTEP subscribes to. Off-campus access (unless otherwise specified) to that resource is available and is restricted to current UTEP students, staff, and faculty.

Articles

• Business Source Premier ^U
• Business and Management Practices (Gale) ^U 
• Emerald Fulltext ^U

Case Studies

• Business Source Premier ^U - For "Document Type" select "case study". The database indexes the Harvard Business Review which includes fictional case studies with commentary from expert advisors.
• Business and Management Practices (Gale) ^U  - For "document type" select "case study". 
• Emerald Fulltext ^U - Use the "Advanced Search" and for "document type" select "case study". 
• INSEAD Knowledge (free with registration) - provides abstracts and the fulltext to working papers and case studies on academically-oriented business research topics with an international business focus. Specific areas covered include: change and innovation; competing; corporate development; entrepreneurship; finance & banking; globalization; green thinking; knowledge management; and marketing.
• Harvard Business School Cases - This is the most comprehensive source of case studies. In addition to Harvard's cases, it includes a selection of cases from other institutions. Includes both U.S. and non-U.S. companies and also cover international issues and strategy. Documents can be ordered directly from the site at a charge. Harvard's Baker Library keeps "retired" cases in their archives. 
• Stanford Graduate School of Business - in addition to cases, the web site includes a searchable catalog of research paper abstracts. 
• The University of Michigan's Center for International Business Education (CIBE) 
• The University of Virginia, The Darden School of Business  
• Thunderbird / Case Series - full text may be viewed but not copied
• European Case Clearing House - Provides abstracts of case studies. Documents are available at a charge. Check to see if the library subscribes to the publications in order to access full-text at no cost. 
• Babson College Case Studies 
• Case Place - abstracts of case studies; check to see if the library subscribes to the publications in order to access full-text
• COLIS: case searching by Internet
• BNET (registration required to access some material) - white papers, case studies, Webcasts, and audio conferences on a wide range of business topics: communications, finance, HR, leadership, marketing, risk management sales, strategy, and more. Consider white papers when you want to study a vendor's product, see how it may be making a case for a business problem, or to get some data on an industry you are researching.

        How to Analyse Case Studies:

• Locate library books by searching the Library's online catalog (NUGGET) under the subject headings "Case Method" or "Business--case studies". You can also do a keyword search by typing "case studies" and combine with and additional search term. 
• Analysis a Case Study (Houghton Mifflin)
• University of St. Thomas 
• Southwestern College 

        How to Write Case Studies:        

• Writing a Case Study Analysis  (Houghton Mifflin)
• Case Writing Guide (Binghamton University)
• Guidelines for Case Writing (Schreyer Institute for Innovation in Learning) 
• How to Prepare Cases (Otterbein College) 
• Databases such as Business Source Premier has articles on the topic. A good example is "Strategic Management Case Writing: Suggestions After 20 Years of Experience"   By: David, Fred R.. SAM Advanced Management Journal (1984), Summer2003, Vol. 68 Issue 3, p36-43, 8p.

Dictionaries

• A Dictionary of Human Resource Management - available online via Oxford Reference Online Premium (OUP) ^U Click on "Subject Reference", then "Economics & Business".

Encyclopedias

• Encyclopedia of Management - available online via Gale Virtual Reference Library ^U
• Encyclopedia of Public Relations - available online via Gale Virtual Reference Library ^U
• Encyclopedia of Small Business - available online via Gale Virtual Reference Library ^U
• Encyclopedia of White Collar and Corporate Crime - available online via Gale Virtual Reference Library ^U
• Gale E-Commerce Sourcebook - available online via Gale Virtual Reference Library ^U
• Gale Encyclopedia of E-Commerce - available online via Gale Virtual Reference Library ^U

Gateways/Portals

• @brint.com:  The BizTech Network -- Contemporary Business, Management and Information Technology issues.   Includes the E-Business & Electronic Commerce Portal, Internet Business Technology Portal, Knowledge Management Portal, General Businesss and Technology Portal.  Access to hundreds of full-text papers, magazines & journals, case studies and other contemporary issues.
• Argus Clearinghouse Business & Employment Internet Sites  
• Knowledge@Wharton (University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business) - Registration required on first use. Provides access to articles based on both research conducted at Wharton and a variety of other sources. 

Organizations

• American Management Association International (AMA)
• Financial Management Association International (FMA)
• American Society of Training and Development
• The International City/County Management Association (ICMA)
• The International Association for Management Education (AACSB)
• Society for Advancement of Management (SAM)
• The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)

Starting a Small Business see also "Starting a Small Business" research guide

• U.S. Small business Administration (SBA)
• The U.S. Business Advisor
• Federal Consumer Information Center
• Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance

Books/Documents/Dissertations

• UTEP Library Catalog, NUGGET. Sample subjects: 
  • management
  • small business management
  • organizational behavior
  • organizational change
  • personnel management
  • business ethics
  • business planning
  • communication in management
  • leadership
  • entrepreneurship
• Dissertation Abstracts
• netLibrary
• WorldCat 

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Last updated: 07/22/06