Resource Guides: Business and Management: Business and Management

Welcome

This guide is an introduction to Business and Management resources at UNSW Canberra.

It will help you find the best material to begin your research on:

Leadership
Strategic management
Change management
International business
Business research and planning
Human resource management.

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Business and Mangement Resources

Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window
Offers information in nearly every area of business including management, economics, finance, accounting, international business, and more. Also includes country economic reports and detailed company profiles for the world's 5,000 largest companies.
Emerald This link opens in a new window
Provides strong coverage of international management and information technology content and includes a large number of case studies.
Factiva This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text access to global news and business information from thousands of sources including the Australian Financial Review, Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Australian information dating back to the 1980s is available.
Informit Full Text Collections This link opens in a new window
Provides access to more than 80 databases covering a range of subjects, with content sourced from publishers, associations and peak bodies. Focuses on regional perspectives and offers strong Australian coverage.
ProQuest Business databases This link opens in a new window
Draws on popular business-related databases to provide access to essential scholarly periodicals featuring market research, company profile s and dissertations.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Provides comprehensive journal articles and book chapters in management, business, accounting, economics, finance, and project management
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive multidisciplinary citation database covering science, social science and arts and humanities.

A Dictionary of Business and Management by Jonathan Law (Editor)
ISBN: 0199234892
Publication Date: 2009
Covers all areas of business and management, including marketing, organisational behaviour, business strategy, law, and taxation. This edition dispels modern financial and management jargon, defining entries in a clear, concise, and accessible manner.
Encyclopedia of Management Theory by Eric H Kessler
ISBN: 1452276080
Publication Date: 2013
Describes the essentials of contemporary management theory and provides concise definitions of key concepts, ideas, schools, and figures.
A Dictionary of Human Resource Management by Heery, Edmund and Noon, Mike
ISBN: 0191827827
Publication Date: 2017
Provides a quick reference guide to human resource management, personnel, and industrial relations covering technical terms, jargon, theories, and concepts.
A Dictionary of Marketing by Charles Doyle
ISBN: 0198736428
Publication Date: 2016
Offers an accessible and wide-ranging A-Z covering a broad range of marketing concepts, both classic and contemporary.
The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management by Mie Augier (Editor-In-Chief); David J. Teece (Editor-In-Chief)
ISBN: 1137007729
Publication Date: 2018-04-30
Provides a comprehensive overview of the field of stratetgic management and covers both the theoretical and more empirically/practitioner-oriented side of the discipline.

LinkedIn Learning This link opens in a new window
Provides access to a vast library of high-quality, current and engaging video tutorials on diverse topics presented by industry professionals.
Alexander Street Press Streaming Video plus Music and Scores This link opens in a new window
Provides access to a comprehensive collecction of multidisciplinary academic videos including interviews, performances, news, field recordings and commercials.
Informit EduTV This link opens in a new window
An online TV streaming resource which provides access to thousands of programs from broadcast and pay TV, including an archive of content dating back to 2006. Content areas include Business, Economics, Health, History, Indigenous studies, Legal studies, Media studies, Politics, Government, Science, Technology, and Society.

The following databases not only contain the above newspapers but also regional newspapers and transcripts of free to air news services.

ProQuest Newspapers & Magazines databases This link opens in a new window
Provides access to comprehensive full-text news information. For Australian material, locate the International Newsstream tab under the Search Databases heading, then select the Australia & New Zealand Newsstream.
Factiva This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text access to global news and business information from thousands of sources including the Australian Financial Review, Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Australian information dating back to the 1980s is available.
Informit TVNews This link opens in a new window
Provides access to Australian television news, current affairs and selected documentaries from free-to-air networks.

Connect4 This link opens in a new window
Brings together a collection of specialised databases providing documents and customised reports relating to companies listed on the Australian Securities Exchange.
DatAnalysis Premium This link opens in a new window
Provides comprehensive data on all companies listed on the ASX as well as companies delisted since 1990. The database includes corporate details, full dividend history, operational history, and financial and annual reports, as well as announcements, company histories, shareholdings, company profiles, takeovers and financial data.
D&B Hoovers Industries This link opens in a new window
Includes information on 90,000 top global private and public companies, including financial analysis and screening, Investext analyst reports, Datamonitor industry reports, corporate family structures, executive contacts and biographies, news and articles.
Factiva This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text access to global news and business information from thousands of sources including the Australian Financial Review, Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Australian information dating back to the 1980s is available.
IBISWorld This link opens in a new window
Contains reports on all industries in Australia's economy. Each report contains information on key statistics, market characteristics, segmentation, industry conditions, industry performance, key competitors, key factors and industry outlook.
MarketLine Advantage This link opens in a new window
Allows access to large volumes of credible, verified data from a cross-curricular database that covers a wide range of companies, industries, financial deals, and geographies.
Passport GMID This link opens in a new window
Provides key business intelligence on countries, companies, markets and consumers, with coverage including marketing, management, business, trade, mass communications, advertising and tourism.

Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window
Combine the phrase "case study" with your keywords (eg: "case study" and marketing).
Factiva This link opens in a new window
Search for the phrase "case study" in the headline and lead paragraph, then combine with a selection from the company, subject, industry or region drop-down menus.
Gartner This link opens in a new window
Combine the phrase "case study" with your keywords.
MarketLine Advantage This link opens in a new window
Click the drop down arrow next to the search box and change item type from All Research to Case Studies.
SAGE Research Methods Online This link opens in a new window
Sage Research Methods: Cases collection follows real research projects from design to data collection across a wide range of disciplines. It explores potential obstacles to research goals as well as their solutions
ProQuest Databases This link opens in a new window
Access case studies from the Advanced Search option. Scroll to the Document Type heading and tick the Case Studies box. Enter keywords and perform your search.

Finding case studies in books

To find case studies in books try searching the library catalogue with the following:

"case studies" (the quotation marks ensure the phrase case studies is searched for) AND another subject term, for example:
- management
- entrepreneurship
- marketing
- business ethics
- name of a company etc.
Case method

Help with analysing case studies

Writing Case Analysis (UNSW Business School)

Case Study Skills: how to analyse problems in case studies by Richard Winter
ISBN: 0734611102
Publication Date: 2011
Presents tools and techniques to understand, interpret and validate different case situations.
Learning from case studies by Geoff Easton
ISBN: 0135286883
Publication Date: 1992
Presents a step-by-step approach to the analysis of case studies based upon a problem-solving paradigm.
The case study handbook by William C. Ellet
ISBN: 1422101584
Publication Date: 2007
Offers guidance about reading, discussing and writing persuasively about cases.
The case study handbook: a student's guide by William Ellet
ISBN: 1633696162
Publication Date: 2018
Provides guides for analysing, discussing and writing about different types of cases.
Encyclopedia of case study research by Elden Wiebe (Editor); Gabrielle Durepos (Editor); Albert J. Mills (Editor)
ISBN: 1412956706
Publication Date: 2009
Details the extensive history, design and methods of case study research.
BCA Business Case Analysis by James W. Brannock
ISBN: 0974781355
Publication Date: 2012
A primer for conducting business analysis.