MGT 547 - Intrepreneurship
TOPCAT
TOPCAT is the library's online catalog. An online catalog stores a record for each item a library owns. Search the online catalog to find out what a library has on a given topic, or to locate a work by title, by author, by subject headings or by keyword.
Subject Headings:
Each item in TOPCAT is assigned one or more special terms, or subject headings that define what the item is about. When you search by subject all items sharing the same subject heading are retrieved. Using subject headings can be a very effective way of finding relevant items. Some useful subject headings are:
- Creative thinking
- Creative ability in business
- Entrepreneurship
- New business enterprises – management
- Organizational change
- Problem solving
- Technological innovations
NetLibrary
NetLibrary is an Internet-based electronic library collection which provides access to the full text of scholarly, reference, and professional books in digital format. eBooks are digitally reproduced in their entirety, including photographs. From off-campus it is necessary to log-in to the NetLibrary using your user name and password. Once you are in NetLibrary, you may "browse" any title for fifteen minutes. To access e-books, go the library homepage and select Find e-books. Search using any of the subject headings that were used in TOPCAT. Below is a short list of some e-book titles on the topic innovation.
- Innovation by design [electronic resource] : what it takes to keep your company on the cutting edge
- Group creativity [electronic resource] : innovation through collaboration / edited by Paul B. Paulus
- Harvard business review on strategies for growth [electronic resource]
- Strategic innovation [electronic resource] : embedding innovation as a core competency in your organ
- The Blackwell handbook of principles of organizational behavior / edited by Edwin A. Locke
e-Journals
e-journals are an electronic version of a journal that is found and read on the Web. Electronic journals, magazines, and newspapers provide access to current information on various subjects. Rather than browse individual e-journal titles, researchers can more quickly find information on a particular subject by searching a database. If the journal is an e-journal, there will be a link to the full text of the articles.
Databases
A database is an organized collection of records containing data for a specific purpose that can be searched and retrieved, e.g. TOPCAT is a database of the holdings of the SWITCH libraries, and Business Source Elite is a database of scholarly and popular articles published in the area of business and management.
- Business Source Premier Full Text EBSCO
- Provides full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles. This database provides full text back to 1886, and searchable cited references back to 1998.
- General Business File ASAP Full Text Thomson Gale
- Indexes publications on business trends, finance, acquisitions and mergers, international trade, money management, investments, and banking.
- Conference Board Research Collection Full Text Conference Board
- Research reports on issues in business management and economics. Includes studies of F500 companies in addition to analyses and forecasts of regional, national, and international economic conditions.
- Academic Search Complete Full Text EBSCO
- Multi-disciplinary full text database that contains more than 7,000 full-text periodicals, including nearly 6,000 peer-reviewed journals.
- JSTOR Full Text JSTOR
- For older articles. Contains back runs of core scholarly journals, some as far back as 1890. Does not include more recent issues.
- MasterFILE Premier Full Text EBSCO
- Indexes over 2,660 titles including full text for over 1,830. Multidisciplinary.
- SAGE Premium Publications Online Full Text Sage
- Search full text journals in the fields of health and biomedical sciences, as well as the humanities and social sciences.
- Directory of Open Access Journals Full Text Lund University Libraries
- Free, full text, scientific and scholarly journal articles on a wide array of subjects.
- Highwire Press Full Text Highwire Press
- Free, full text, scientific and scholarly journal articles on a wide array of subjects.
Websites
- Center for Business Ethics
- "The Center for Business Ethics is dedicated to promoting ethical business conduct in contemporary society. With a vast network of practitioners and scholars, and an expansive multimedia library, the center provides an international forum for benchmarking and research in business ethics. The center helps corporations and other organizations strengthen their ethical cultures through educational programming and consulting."
- Complete Guide to Ethics Management: An Ethics Toolkit for Managers
- "This guide is a straightforward and highly practical tool designed to help leaders and managers implement comprehensive ethics management systems in their workplaces -- systems to deal with the complex, ethical issues that can occur in the day-to-day realities of leading and managing an organization."
- Corporate Social Research Center
- This site offers company profiles, company reports, a newswire, and rates companies on social and environmental commitment.
- Entrepreneur.com
- Entrepreneurship Chronicle
- "The Entrepreneurship Chronicle is the premier email newsletter on business and entrepreneurship."
- Franchise Handbook
- "This site contains a directory of franchise opportunities, which can be searched or browsed alphabetically or by category. Each listing includes the name and address while some also contain more extensive information and email links."
- Foundation for Enterprise Development
- The Foundation for Enterprise Development (FED) is a private operating organization that promotes business principles and practices that encourage free enterprise and advance science and technology innovations with impact on nationally important interests.
- Innovation Tools
- "InnovationTools provides entrepreneurs and innovators with a focused, growing collection of the best resources on business innovation, creativity and brainstorming."
- Institute of Business Ethics
- Helps organizations to strengthen their ethics culture and encourage high standards of business behavior based on ethical values.
- Intrapreneurship
- Organizational Behavior Management Network
- This site exists to develop, enhance, and support the growth and vitality of organizational behavior management through research, education, practice, and collaboration.
- Small Business Administration
- The SBA helps Americans start, build and grow businesses through an extensive network of field offices and partnerships with public and private organizations.
- Small Business Innovation Research -- Minnesota
- Small Business Innovation Research -- Wisconsin
- Small Business Planner
- The Small Business Planner includes information and resources that will help you at any stage of the business lifecycle.
- Social Entrepreneurship
- The Management Free Library provides easy-to-access, clutter-free, comprehensive resources regarding the leadership and management of yourself, other individuals, groups and organizations.