Business, entrepreneurship and management
Getting started
Whether you're embarking on a critical review of the literature on a business topic, or on a fact-finding mission, it helps to have definitions and a background to the topic.
The 5 step process 1.Define 2.Plan 3.Find 4.Evaluate 5.Reference
- Encyclopedia of Management. Marilyn M. Helms, ed. 5thed. Detroit: Gale, 2006. 1004 pp.
- International encyclopedia of business and management Warner & Kotter London : Thomson Learning 2002 Hawthorn 658.03 INT-W2
Although this is in print, it is an excellent resource for giving an overview on a topic with the key readings from the scholarly and influential literature. - More encyclopedias and dictionaries
Finding recommended readings
Access articles, books and more provided by your teachers for your unit.
- Finding articles on your reading list (Flash, 2min)
Key databases for journal articles
- Business Source Complete peer reviewed and non-peer reviewed journals, trade and industry publicationas, and market research reports
- Emerald peer reviewed articles and book chapters
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If you cannot see the link to the full text of an article, click on the full text button:
- More about finding journal articles Do you have a plan for your information search? More about how to search the Library
For Researchers
- Web of Knowledge to search ISI highly ranked journals
- Scopus
- Google Scholar
- Are you preparing a literature review? 'Critically reviewing the literature' (PDF), 2009, in M Saunders (ed.) Research methods for business students, FT/Prentice, Harlow, England, pp. 53-105.
- See also International Journal of Management Reviews (IJMR) is a reference tool for business academics and doctoral students. Each issue includes literature reviews.
- The Electronic Journal of Business Research Methods is an open access online journal that publishes articles and papers that contribute to the development of both the theory and practice of research methods employed across the whole field of Business and Management studies.
- Get published! Are you in Swinburne Research Bank?
Guides for specific areas of study
Click on the links below for more specific resources
- Accounting, auditing and taxation
- Companies
- Economics and finance
- Entrepreneurship, innovation and strategy
- Foresight
- Leadership, Human Resource Management and organisational studies
- Industry and market analysis
- International business and trade
- Law and legislation
- Library and information science
- Marketing
- Philanthropy, Social Investment and Social Impact