Ka-Neng Au and Theo Haynes, Business Librarians au@rutgers.edu 30 April 2009

Research Resources: Subject Research Guides: Business:
General Business Resources

This Guide contains links to a wide range of general business Internet resources. For information on specific business areas, please consult the Business Research Guide. Three sections previously covered here have their own pages: Business Electronic Journals, Business News Sources, and Indexes to Business Topics. Suggestions are always welcome; send e-mail to au@newark.rutgers.edu or haynes@camden.rutgers.edu.

Electronic Texts and Digital Media Dictionaries Encyclopedias Working Papers Other Electronic Texts Economic Data Sources Image, Sound and Video Collections Other Websites U.S. Government Agencies Listservs and Discussion Groups Business Schools and Scholarly Societies Rankings of Business Schools Dissertations and Theses

Guides to Resources General Business Accounting Electronic Commerce Finance and Banking International Business Information Systems Management Marketing and Marketing Research Not-for-Profit Management Organizational Behavior Real Estate Regulated Industries Small Business Statistics and Econometrics Supply Chain Management

A. Electronic Texts and Digital Media

I. Dictionaries

• Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary
• Auditing Glossary of Terms
• BusinessDictionary.com
• Business Glossary (washingtonpost.com)
• Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing Glossary
• Business of Biopharmaceuticals Glossary
• Complete Glossary of Insurance Coverage Explanations
• Dictionary of Marketing Terms (AMA)
• Dictionary of Terminology: Advertising (University of Texas)
• Enterprise Resource Planning/Supply Chain Management Glossary
• Finance Glossary (Finance Globe)
• Financial Dictionary
• Glossary (Chicago Mercantile Exchange)
• Glossary (TIAA-CREF)
• Glossary and Learning Center (for technical stock analysis)
• Glossary of Business Terms (FannieMae)
• Glossary of [marketing] Research Terms (registration required)
• Glossary of Risk Management & Insurance Terms (University of Calgary)
• Glossary of Terms, Acronyms, and Abbreviations (AICPA)
• Guide to Futures and Options Market Terminology
• Hypertextual Finance Glossary (Campbell R. Harvey) Also hosted by the New York Times as Glossary of Financial and Business Terms.
• InvestorWords
• Labor-Management Relations Glossary
• The Language of Trade (Business Roundtable)
• The Language of Trade (State Dept)
• Market Research Glossary (IMRI)
• Marketing Dictionary (Monash University)
• Mutual Fund Terms
• NetLingo: The Internet Dictionary
• Online Glossary of Retailing (Prentice-Hall)
• Quality Glossary (ASQ)
• The Ridiculous Business Jargon Dictionary
• The Terms of Trade and Other Wonders: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics

Dictionary of Business and Management
KILMER HF 1001 .C63 2006

Dictionary of Finance and Banking
KILMER REF HG 151 .D54 2005

Dictionary of Financial Abbreviations by John Paxton
ALEXANDER, DANA REF HG 151.3 .P39 2003

Dictionary of Investment Terms by Catharyn Martz
ALEXANDER HG 4513 .M37 2006

Financial Lexicon: A Compendium of Financial Definitions, Acronyms, and Colloquialisms by Erik Banks
KILMER REF HG 151 .B2697 2005

II. Encyclopedias

• Electronic Reference Sources: Encyclopedias: Business

III. Working Papers

• Links to Working Papers In Business (Washington University)
• NBER Working Papers
• RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (which subsumes the Economics Working Papers Archives)
• Munich Personal RePEc Archive
• Social Science Research Network (SSRN) (registration required)
• Technical Reports and Working Papers in Business and Economics

IV. Other Electronic Texts

• ACM Digital Library (Rutgers-restricted Access)
• Asia-Studies Full-Text Online (Rutgers-restricted Access)
• Business Insights (Rutgers-restricted Access)
• CCH Tax Research Network (Rutgers-restricted Access)
• CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online (Rutgers-restricted Access)
• Collection on Critical Global Issues (United Nations University Press)
• Conference Board Research Collection (Rutgers-restricted Access)
• Congressional Research Service Reports (Open CRS Network)
• EDGAR Documents from SECInfo.com, with a different interface than the one from the Securities and Exchange Commission
• For current financial reports, there's the Public Register's Annual Report Service (PRARS)
• Economic Report of the President (1996 onwards)
• Emanuel Saxe Distinguished Lectures in Accounting
• Gartner Research (Rutgers-restricted Access)
• Guide To International Trade Law including:
  • GATT - General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
  • Maastricht Treaty
  • NAFTA - North American Free Trade Agreement
  • WTO - World Trade Organization
• Key Workplace Documents at Catherwood Library (formerly the ILR e-Archive, Cornell University)
• North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) (which replaces the Standard Industrial Classification)
• Occupational Outlook Handbook
Online books from
• Bookyards (Business and Finance)
• eBookLobby (Business and Investing)
• Free-eBooks.net (Business)
• Getfreebooks.com (Business)
• Onlinefreebooks.net (Business and Economy)
• University of Pennsylvania (Economics and Business)
• World Economic Outlook Reports (IMF)

V. Economic Data Sources

• Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Bureau of the Census with a variety of data sets e.g.:
  • County Business Patterns
  • Current Industrial Reports
  • Economic Census (2007)
  • Economic Statistics by Geography, Sector, and Frequency
  • Quarterly Financial Report
• New Jersey Labor Market Information (NJ Department of Labor)
• Universal Currency Converter (foreign exchange rates)

• Many other economic data sources may be found on the Rutgers University Libraries Economics Data and Text Resources (Womack) as well as Economic Time Series Page (Economagic).

• Financial data sources may be found in the Finance and Economics research guide (Au).

• Dozens of business-related calculators are listed in Part I of Martindale's Calculators On-Line Center

VI. Image, Sound, and Video Collections

• Ad*Access Project (ads mostly from the 20s-40s)
• AdFlip (ads mostly from the 50s-80s)
• Museum of Advertising Icons

• Marketplace Radio Business News

• BusinessWeek Online: Media Center
• FORA.tv: The Economy
• MSNBC: Video News
• ResearchChannel: Business and Economics
• RU Libraries videos in selected subject areas:
• Advertising or Propaganda
• Globalization
• Labor

B. Other Websites

I. U.S. Government Agencies

• Bureau of Economic Analysis
• Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Bureau of the Census
• Business Advisor
• Customs and Border Protection
• Department of Commerce
• FedWorld (NTIS gateway to many government sites)
• Federal Trade Commission
• Internal Revenue Service
• International Trade Administration
• International Trade Commission
• Overseas Private Investment Corp
• Patents and Trademarks Office
• Small Business Administration
• Trade Representative
• ZIP Code Lookup from the U.S. Postal Service

• Other Government information resources may be found on the Rutgers University Libraries Government Information Resources Research Guide.

II. Listservs and Discussion Groups

• Tile.net (searchable database of Internet discussion & information lists)
• Topica: Business (e-mail list directory)

III. Business Schools and Scholarly Societies

• Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business: Accredited Members of AACSB International
• Resources of Scholarly Societies in Business

IV. Rankings of Business Schools

• B-Schools Rankings & Profiles (Business Week)
• Best Business Schools (Forbes)
• Best Business Schools: Ranked (Princeton Review: registration required)
• Business School Research Rankings (Indiana University)
• Business-School Search (Wall Street Journal)
• Complete Guide to Business Schools (U.S. News & World Report)
• MBA Program Ranking and Screening (Unicorn Research Corporation)
• MBA Rankings (Financial Times)
• SSRN Top U.S. Business Schools (Social Science Research Network: registration required)
• Top 100 Business School Research Rankings (University of Texas at Dallas)
• Which MBA (Economist Intelligence Unit)

V. Dissertations and Theses

Dissertations and Theses (Rutgers-restricted Access) is the primary source for identifying doctoral dissertations and master's theses from North American graduate schools and European universities. The database includes bibliographic citations for materials ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester.

There are also a few listings of dissertations by subject area:

• Dissertations in Business History (under development by the Business History Conference)
• Knowledge Bank: Dissertations (Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research Institute)
• MIS Dissertation Database (Association for Information Systems)

Awards, grants, and prizes for doctoral proposals and dissertations in business-related areas are offered by many professional associations.

Academy of International Business
• AIB/Sheth Dissertation Proposal Award
• Richard N. Farmer Dissertation Award

Academy of Management
• Ralph Alexander Best Dissertation Award (Human Resources Division)
• Heizer Doctoral Dissertation Award in New Enterprise Development
• NFIB-ETP Doctoral Dissertation Award in Entrepreneurship/Independent Business
• Public and Nonprofit Sector Division Best Dissertation Award
• Barry M. Richman Dissertation Award (International Management Division)
• SIM Doctoral Consortium (Social Issues in Management Division)
• Technology and Innovation Management Division Best Dissertation Award

American Accounting Association
• AAA Section Awards including:
  • ATA/PricewaterhouseCoopers Outstanding Tax Dissertation Award
  • Accounting, Behavior and Organizations Section Outstanding Dissertation Award
  • Auditing Section Outstanding Auditing Dissertation Award
  • Financial Accounting and Reporting Section Best Dissertation Award
  • Gender Issues and Worklife Balance Section KPMG Outstanding Dissertation Award
  • Information Systems Section Outstanding Dissertation Award
  • Management Accounting Dissertation Competition
  • Outstanding International Accounting Dissertation Award

American Marketing Association
• Dissertation Proposal Award (Marketing and Society Special Interest Group)
• Doctoral Dissertation Award (Selling and Sales Management Special Interest Group)
• Fisher IMS and AMA SERVSIG Dissertation Proposal Award (Services Special Interest Group)
• John A. Howard/AMA Doctoral Dissertation Award (American Marketing Association Foundation)
• Levy and Weitz Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Awards (Retailing and Retail Management Special Interest Group)
• NextGen Travel Award for Doctoral Students (Selling and Sales Management Special Interest Group)

American Statistical Association
• Zellner Thesis Award in Business and Economic Statistics

Association for Consumer Research
• ACR/Sheth Foundation Dissertation Grant

Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences
• Aviation Applications Section: Dissertation Prize
• Frank M. Bass Dissertation Paper Award (Society for Marketing Science)
• College on Organization Science: Best Dissertation Proposal Competition
• George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award
• Technology Management Section: Best Dissertation Award
• Telecommunications Section: Best Dissertation Award
• Transportation Science and Logistics Section: Dissertation Prize

Marketing Science Institute
• Alden G. Clayton Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Competition

Other organizations:
• AICPA Fellowships for Minority Doctoral Students (American Institute of Certified Public Accountants)
• American Fellowships (American Association of University Women)
• Michael J. Barrett Doctoral Dissertation Grant (Institute of Internal Auditors)
• Business Marketing Doctoral Support Award (Institute for the Study of Business Markets, Penn State University)
• Center on Leadership & Ethics Doctorate Dissertation Proposal Competition (Fuqua School of Business, Duke University)
• Clayton Dissertation Proposal Competition (Marketing Science Institute)
• Coleman Prize: Best Dissertation in British Business History (Association of Business Historians)
• George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences)
• Deloitte Doctoral Fellowship Program (Deloitte & Touche USA)
• Dissertation Award (American Society for Training & Development)
• Dissertation Fellowship Program (Lincoln Institute of Land Policy)
• Dissertation Fellowship Program (Spencer Foundation)
• Dissertation Proposal Award (Center for Business Education at the Aspen Institute)
• Dissertation Proposal Competition (Society for Consumer Psychology)
• Doctoral Dissertation Award (State Farm Companies Foundation)
• Doctoral Dissertation Award Competition (Emory Marketing Institute)
• Doctoral Dissertation Competition (Fordham University Pricing Center)
• Doctoral Dissertation Grant Program (Institute for Supply Management)
• Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Award in Supply Chain Optimization (University of Florida Supply Chain And Logistics Engineering Center)
• Doctoral Dissertation Research Proposal Award (Society for Marketing Advances)
• Doctoral Fellowships (Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange)
• e-Business Doctoral Support Award (eBusiness Research Center, Penn State University)
• Excellence in Ethics: Dissertation Proposal Competition (Institute for Ethical Business Worldwide, University of Notre Dame)
• Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships (National Research Council of the National Academies)
• Fordham University Pricing Center Doctoral Dissertation Award
• Google Anita Borg Scholarship
• Gunnar Hedlund Award (Stockholm School of Economics and European International Business Academy)
• International Dissertation Research Fellowships (Social Science Research Council)
• Juran Fellowship (Juran Center for Leadership in Quality, University of Minnesota)
• K C Mahindra Trust Scholarship
• KPMG Foundation Doctoral Scholarship Program
• Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship Program (Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation)
• Herman E. Krooss Prize for Best Dissertation in Business History (Business History Conference)
• Morris Mayer Dissertation Awards (American Collegiate Retailing Association)
• National Research Awards in business education (Delta Pi Epsilon)
• PDMA Dissertation Competition (Product Development & Management Association)
• Plossl Doctoral Dissertation Competition (APICS The Association for Operations Management)
• Hope Richardson Award for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation on Mentoring (International Mentoring Association)
• Shankar-Spiegel Award for the Best Dissertation Proposal in Direct/Interactive Marketing (Direct Marketing Educational Foundation)
• ZIBS Doctoral Dissertation Competition (Zyman Institute of Brand Science)

C. Guides to Resources

There are very many business-related resource guides on the Internet. One starting point is the collection of review essays in The Core Business Web: A Guide to Key Information Resources edited by Gary White (former editor of the Web review column in the Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship) (DANA HD 30.37 .C67 2003)

I. General Business

• BUBL LINK: Social Sciences (includes many business areas)
• Business and Commerce from Galaxy
• Business and Economy from Yahoo!
• Business and Technology (@BRINT)
• CEO Express!
• The Dismal Scientist from Economy.com
• Securities Lawyer's Deskbook (Center for Corporate Law at the University of Cincinnati)
• Strategis: Canada's Business Information Site
• Virtual Business Information Center (University of Maryland)
• Wall Street Executive Library

II. Accounting

• Accountancy from Intute (formerly the Social Science Information Gateway)
• AuditNet
• Tax and Accounting Sites Directory
• WebCPA Thomson

• Rutgers Accounting Web

III. Electronic Commerce

• ECommerce Guide from Internet.com
• Electronic & Distributed Commerce Page of the WWW Virtual Library Project
• Electronic Commerce by Roger Clarke
• Cyberlaw Encyclopedia maintained by Alan Gahtan, a Canadian attorney specializing in Information Technology Law
• Web Marketing Information Center, with links to thousands of online articles

IV. Finance and Banking

• Virtual Finance Library from Ohio State University
• Virtual Library on Microcredit and Microfinance from the Global Development Research Center
• Wachowicz's Web World: Web Sites for Discerning Finance Students
• Yahoo! Finance

• Economics, a Rutgers University Libraries Research Guide
• Finance and Economics, a Rutgers University Libraries Research Guide

V. International Business

• International Business & Technology (@BRINT)
• Jim Martindale's International Business, Finance & Economics Center
• globalEDGE Resource Desk (formerly International Business Resources Index) from Michigan State University
• Internationalist: the Center for International Business and Travel
• VIBES - Virtual International Business and Economics Sources
• World-Wide Web Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources

VI. Information Systems

• Decision Support Systems Resources from DSSResources.com
• ISWorld Net
• Information Retrieval Resources from ACM SIGIR
• INFORMS OR/MS Resource Collection (formerly Michael Trick's Operations Research Page)
• World Wide Web Virtual Library: Digital Rights Management

VII. Management

• Business and Management from Intute (formerly the Social Science Information Gateway)
• Knowledge Management, the WWW Virtual Library

VIII. Marketing and Marketing Research

• Advertising World from the University of Texas
• KnowThis.com, the Marketing Virtual Library
• Marketing and Communications from Intute (formerly the Social Science Information Gateway)
• Marketing Magic

IX. Not-for-Profit Management

• Arts Management Resources from Carnegie Mellon University
• Benton Foundation's Community Building Toolkit
• Links to Nonprofit Resources from the Foundation Center
• Nonprofit Links from the Institute for Nonprofit Organization Management
• Nonprofit Resource Center
• Resource Library from the Alliance for Nonprofit Management

X. Organizational Behavior

• Prof. Donelson Forsyth's Group Dynamics Resources Page (no longer updated)
• HR Internet Guide
• Industrial and Organizational Psychology from Intute (formerly the Social Science Information Gateway)
• organisations@onepine>
• Organisational Change from Intute (formerly the Social Science Information Gateway)
• Human Resource Executive's Workindex.com, with research from Cornell University

XI. Real Estate

• International Real Estate Digest
• Real Estate: Subject Guide from MIT Libraries
• Real Estate Library
• Reference Guides from the Jack Brause Real Estate Library at New York University

XII. Regulated Industries

• Related Energy Links from the Energy Information Administration
• Telecom Virtual Library at the Strathclyde Business School
• Transportation Information and Decision Engineering Links from the New Jersey TIDE Center

XIII. Small Business

• eWeb from St. Louis University
• Edward Lowe PeerSpectives
• Entrepreneur's Mind
• EntreWorld: Resources for Entrepreneurs from the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership
• Small Business Advisor
• Small Business Innovation Research Awards (searchable database - registration required)
• Small Business Knowledge Base

XIV. Statistics and Econometrics

• Econometric Links of the Econometrics Journal
• Research Methods from Intute (formerly the Social Science Information Gateway)
• Statistical Science Web
• Statistics WWW Virtual Library
• statistics.com

• Economics, a Rutgers University Libraries Research Guide

XV. Supply Chain Management

• David Twigg's Technology & Operations Management
• Global Value Chains
• SupplyChainBrain.com
• Supply Chain Knowledge Base (ITtoolbox)