Subject Guides - Management Studies

Management Studies

Below are some suggested databases for Management Studies.

Databases

Core Databases

Business Insights Essentials (Gale)

Extensive reference content from Gale’s core business collection; easy-to-use company fundamentals and investment research reports; industry rankings, profiles, market share data, company histories, and more.

Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database (ProQuest)

CBCA Complete is a current events database combining content from four subsets (Business, Current Events, Education, and Reference).

EBSCOHost Business Source Complete

Business Source Complete is the world’s definitive scholarly business database, providing the leading collection of bibliographic and full text content. Additional full text, non-journal content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more.

JSTOR Arts & Sciences 4

This collection expands JSTOR’s coverage in economics, law, education, sociology, psychology, and public policy and administration. It includes noteworthy student-run law reviews, featuring more than a century of top legal scholarship.

Multidisciplinary Databases

EBSCOhost Academic Search Elite

Covering all major academic disciplines, Academic Search Elite is a rich resource spanning a broad stretch of academic subjects with thousands of full-text journals and abstracted and indexed journals.
 

Journals

Core Journals

BusinessWeek Online

Bloomberg delivers business and markets news, data, analysis, and video to the world, featuring stories from Businessweek and Bloomberg News.

The Economist

The Economist’s primary focus is world events, politics and business, but it also runs regular sections on science and technology as well as books and the arts.

Harvard business review

Harvard Business Review Press publishes the best thinking in the areas of business strategy, general management, technology, leadership, human resources, and innovation. Intelligent business readers turn to us for answers to the questions they face every day, and for the guidance and debate that will have a profound impact on their lives — both personally and professionally.

Journal of Leadership Education

JOLE is a leadership journal that engages scholars and practitioners who advance leadership education and development. Scholar-practitioners represent various fields to include Education, Training and Development, and Corporate Education. JOLE fosters dialogue across industries focused on the learning process and the practice of leadership education.

Reference Resources

Encyclopedias

The Blackwell encyclopaedia of management: Accounting

Print resource: REF HF5621 .B53 2005

Encyclopaedia of business

Print resource: REF HF1001 .E466 2000

Handbooks

Handbook of organizational and managerial wisdom

Print resource: HD30.23 .H36 2007

Books

Physical Collections

  • HD72-88 Economic growth, development, planning
  • HD2350.8-2356 Large industry. Factory system. Big business
  • HD4801-8943 Labour. Work. Working class
  • HD5701-6000.9 Labor market. Labour supply. Labour demand

Keywords

  • Business analysis
  • Contract negotiation
  • Corporate strategizing
  • Financial strategies
  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Forecasting/budgeting
  • Resource management
  • Risk management and assessment
  • Strategic alliance development
  • Venture capital financing

Subjects

  • Industrial management
  • Management
  • Social sciences — Statistical methods
  • Consumer movements
  • Corporations — Social aspects

Databases

Citation Styles

APS (American Physical Society)

Print resource on Course Reserve. Please visit the Library information desk. 

Council of Science Editors Style Guide

Print resource on Course Reserve. Please visit the Library information desk. 

Chicago/Turabian

Print resource on Course Reserve. Please visit the Library information desk. 

IEEE Style Manual (PDF)

This style is commonly used for Electrical and Computer Engineering.

MLA (Modern Language Association)

Print resource on Course Reserve. Please visit the Library information desk. 

Other Resources

The Purdue Online Writing Lab

The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University houses writing resources and instructional material, and we provide these as a free service of the Writing Lab at Purdue. Students, members of the community, and users worldwide will find information to assist with many writing projects.

Research Tips

Primary Articles

Original Research Articles

These are articles reporting on original research and include elements such as a hypothesis, background studies, literature reviews, detailed methodologies, results, interpretations of findings, and discussions on possible implications and future research. Original research articles are typically longer, ranging from 3, 000 – 12, 000 words. These articles are peer reviewed and cite relevant publications from other authors that relate to the research being conducted.

Case Studies

These articles report on the in-depth study of a specific person, group, or event. They are used in a variety of fields such as psychology, medicine, education, political science, and social work in order to seek patterns and causes of behaviour.

Secondary Articles

Literature Reviews

A literature review is a systematic summary and synthesis of what has been published on a topic by accredited scholars and researchers. They frequently convey what knowledge and ideas have been established on a topic, as well as critically assessing the strengths and weaknesses of the field. They will often lack a ‘Methods’ section, though they are often peer reviewed.  

Systematic Reviews

These reviews are often designed to provide an exhaustive summary of current evidence in relation to a specific research question, synthesize findings qualitatively or quantitatively, and critically appraise research studies. Systematic reviews use rigorous and transparent review methodologies with the aim of assessing and minimizing bias in the findings. 

Meta-analyses

A meta-analysis is a statistical analysis that combines the results of multiple scientific studies addressing the same question. The primary aim is to use statistical analyses to determine common truths. Meta-analyses can be part of a broader systematic review.

Special Articles

Including letters to the editor, correspondences, short communications, editorials, pictorial essays

Tertiary/ Gray Literature

Broadly speaking, gray literature is information produced outside of the traditional academic publishing and distribution systems such as academic journals and monographs. Gray literature can include reports, policies, working papers, newsletters, speeches, government documents, and more.

As grey literature is produced directly by an individual or organization, for their own either use or wider sharing, it is often more current than academic publications as it is not subject to the delays found in traditional publishing processes.

As grey literature does not go through a rigorous peer review process the quality can vary significantly, and it is recommended that these sources be critically evaluated.

Technical reports

These can include scientific studies conducted by Government agencies and NGO which are often not peer reviewed. These types of reports can be found in both scholarly databases and freely on the web.