Research Guides: Business Administration & Management Research Guide: Online Sources

Online Sources

Recommended business administration sites, including reference sites.

BELL: The Business Ethics Links Library
"BELL is a comprehensive starting point for research in corporate ethics and social responsibility. The database provides access to codes of ethics for U.S. companies and trade and professional associations, ethics sites at college and university business programs, industry information resources, and company promotion of social responsibility covering such topics as arts assistance, environmental clean up, charitable giving and community programming."
Bplans
Numerous links to sample business plans, articles, information on marketing, sales and finance for a variety of businesses.
The Business Journals
"The Business Journal’s 40 business newspapers stretch from Washington, D.C., to San Francisco, and from Austin, Texas, to Albany, N.Y. Bizjournals features local people and decision makers who are leaders in their business communities. They report on local and national issues that impact subscribers’ businesses and assist them in growing their companies."
Business Plans
Developed by Business Resource Software, Inc., offers business plan samples, software tools, and a library of research materials.
Cambridge Business English Dictionary
A searchable online dictionary of 35,00 business-related words.
Ethics and Compliance Glossary
A glossary of terms with definitions pulled together by the Ethics & Compliance Initiative.
Harvard Business Review
"Harvard Business Publishing (HBP) was founded in 1994 as a not-for-profit, wholly-owned subsidiary of Harvard University, reporting into Harvard Business School. Our mission is to improve the practice of management in a changing world. This mission influences how we approach what we do here and what we believe is important." NOTE: Limited number of free articles.
Harvard Business School: Working Knowledge
"Since 1999, Harvard Business School Working Knowledge has connected the School’s leading edge research and ideas on business management with practitioners, thought-leaders, and academics. Readers are introduced to the newest thinking on more than 100 business topics and industries long before they make their way into mainstream practice."
Knowledge@Wharton
"The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is committed to sharing its intellectual capital through Knowledge@Wharton, the school’s online business analysis journal."
Pew Research Center
"Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. We conduct public opinion polling, demographic research, content analysis and other data-driven social science research."
strategy+business
"strategy+business (s+b) is an award-winning management magazine for decision makers in businesses and organizations around the world."
TED: Ideas Worth Spreading
"TED is a nonpartisan nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks. TED began in 1984 as a conference where Technology, Entertainment and Design converged, and today covers almost all topics — from science to business to global issues — in more than 110 languages."
Tennessee Secretary of State: Division of Business Services
Provides information for and about businesses in Tennessee. Locate business records, file reports, and more.
U.S. Small Business Administration
"The U.S. Small Business Administration has delivered millions of loans, loan guarantees, contracts, counseling sessions and other forms of assistance to small businesses."
The Washington Post - Business
The business section of The Washington Post. NOTE: Limited number of free articles.

Recommended management sites, including reference sites.

Bplans
Numerous links to sample business plans, articles, information on marketing, sales and finance for a variety of businesses.
The Business Journals
"The Business Journal’s 40 business newspapers stretch from Washington, D.C., to San Francisco, and from Austin, Texas, to Albany, N.Y. Bizjournals features local people and decision makers who are leaders in their business communities. They report on local and national issues that impact subscribers’ businesses and assist them in growing their companies."
Business Plans
Developed by Business Resource Software, Inc., offers business plan samples, software tools, and a library of research materials.
Cambridge Business English Dictionary
A searchable online dictionary of 35,00 business-related words.
Free Management Library
"The Library provides free, easy-to-access, online articles to develop yourself, other individuals, groups and organizations (whether the organization is for-profit or nonprofit). Over the past 15 years, the Library has grown to be one of the world's largest well-organized collections of these types of articles and resources."
Harvard Business School: Working Knowledge
"Since 1999, Harvard Business School Working Knowledge has connected the School’s leading edge research and ideas on business management with practitioners, thought-leaders, and academics. Readers are introduced to the newest thinking on more than 100 business topics and industries long before they make their way into mainstream practice."
Knowledge@Wharton
"The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is committed to sharing its intellectual capital through Knowledge@Wharton, the school’s online business analysis journal."
Pew Research Center
"Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. We conduct public opinion polling, demographic research, content analysis and other data-driven social science research."
strategy+business
"strategy+business (s+b) is an award-winning management magazine for decision makers in businesses and organizations around the world."
TED: Ideas Worth Spreading
"TED is a nonpartisan nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks. TED began in 1984 as a conference where Technology, Entertainment and Design converged, and today covers almost all topics — from science to business to global issues — in more than 110 languages."
Tennessee Secretary of State: Division of Business Services
Provides information for and about businesses in Tennessee. Locate business records, file reports, and more.
U.S. Small Business Administration
"The U.S. Small Business Administration has delivered millions of loans, loan guarantees, contracts, counseling sessions and other forms of assistance to small businesses."
The Washington Post - Business
The business section of The Washington Post. NOTE: Limited number of free articles.

Business administration- and management-related associations and organizations.

Academy of Management
"The Academy of Management is the preeminent professional association for management and organization scholars.
Our worldwide members are professors and Ph.D. students in business schools at universities, academics in related social science and other fields, and practitioners who value knowledge creation and application."
American Business Women's Association
"The mission of the American Business Women’s Association is to bring together business women of diverse occupations and to provide opportunities for them to help themselves and others grow personally and professionally through leadership, education, networking support and national recognition."
American Management Association
"American Management Association is a world leader in professional development, advancing the skills of individuals to drive business success."
National Association of Women Business Owners
"Founded in 1975, the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) is the unified voice of over 10.1 million women-owned businesses in the United States representing the fastest growing segment of the economy."
National Business Association
"Since 1982 The National Business Association has partnered with small business owners to provide the resources and benefits they need to succeed."
Society for Human Resource Management
"The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) is the world’s largest HR professional society, representing 285,000 members in more than 165 countries. For nearly seven decades, the Society has been the leading provider of resources serving the needs of HR professionals and advancing the practice of human resource management."
Southern Management Association
"The Southern Management Association (SMA) is a domestic affiliate of the Academy of Management. Its primary mission is to advance the research, teaching, learning, and practice of management."
Tennessee Veterans Business Association
"TVBA offers its members networking, professional development and educational opportunities, as well as business solutions and services."
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
"The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is the world’s largest business organization representing the interests of more than 3 million businesses of all sizes, sectors, and regions. Our members range from mom-and-pop shops and local chambers to leading industry associations and large corporations."

Alternative search engines. Useful for locating specific types of sources.

CiteSeer^x
"CiteSeer^x is an evolving scientific literature digital library and search engine that has focused primarily on the literature in computer and information science."
Congress.gov
"Presented by the Library of Congress, Congress.gov is the official website for U.S. federal legislative information."
FDsys (Federal Digital System)
"GPO’s Federal Digital System (FDsys) provides free online access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government."
Google Images
Image search from Google - either text-based or reverse image.
Google News
A news aggregator
Science.gov
"Science.gov searches over 60 databases and over 2,200 scientific websites to provide users with access to more than 200 million pages of authoritative federal science information including research and development results."
TinEye Reverse Image Search
Reverse image search - upload an image or provide a URL to an image's online location.
USA.gov
"USA.gov is an interagency product administered by USAGov (formerly the Federal Citizen Information Center), a division of the U.S. General Services Administration's Technology Transformation Service. Our mission is to create and organize timely, needed government information and services and make them accessible anytime, anywhere, via your channel of choice."
WolframAlpha
"Wolfram|Alpha introduces a fundamentally new way to get knowledge and answers—not by searching the web, but by doing dynamic computations based on a vast collection of built-in data, algorithms, and methods."
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