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Business Source CompleteContent types: Peer-reviewed journals, industry and market research reports, magazines, news sources, SWOTS
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Google ScholarContent types: Search across disciplines for articles, theses, books, from academic publishers, professional societies, universities, etc.
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Nexis UniContent type(s): Current news, company information, foreign language news, broadcast transcripts
Dates covered: Current
New business books
The Leading Practice of Decision Making in Modern Business Systems
Focusing on modern business systems from within the modern Russian context, this book examines how companies can become leading competitors globally within their industries through new decision-making processes. For scholars researching business management, leadership, and decision-making, this book also offers a useful insight into how optimized decision-making processes can be applied to the modern business system.
The Entrepreneurial Dilemma in the Life Cycle of the Small Firm
The Entrepreneurial Dilemma in the Life Cycle of the Small Firm enables lecturers, researchers and practitioners in the fields of entrepreneurship, small business development and business administration to understand these entrepreneurial dilemmas and ways to resolve them.
The Tyranny of Metrics
How the obsession with quantifying human performance threatens our schools, medical care, businesses, and government. In this book, Jerry Muller uncovers the damage our obsession with metrics is causing--and shows how we can begin to fix the problem. Filled with examples from education, medicine, business and finance, government, the police and military, and philanthropy and foreign aid, this brief and accessible book explains why the seemingly irresistible pressure to quantify performance distorts and distracts, whether by encouraging "gaming the stats" or "teaching to the test."
Sustainability Is the New Advantage
"Sustainability Is the New Advantage" identifies the skill sets, best practices, and new ideas needed to teach a new generation to start, grow, and manage sustainable organizations.
Business Models
The growing body of research on business models draws upon a range of sub-disciplines, including strategic management, entrepreneurship, organization studies and management accounting. Business Models: A Research Overview provides a research map for business scholars, incorporating theoretical and applied perspectives. It develops the field of business model research by offering a critique of the field as it has developed to date and provides a guide for future research and theorization.
Project and Program Management
This book is the first to truly balance a complete account of the technical aspects of project and program management with a practical approach to understanding and developing the core competencies required to accomplish desired goals. On the technical side, this book is a complete introduction to predicting costs, setting schedules, and assessing risks. On the people side, it sheds new light on how to mold different personality types into a team, how to motivate the team's members, and how to produce extraordinary results. T
Business Practices in Higher Education
The new edition of Business Practices in Higher Education helps readers understand the true nature of higher education and appreciate how the academy effectively incorporates business practices into everyday work lives.
Advances in Global Leadership
This volume continues to advance both global leadership research and practice by bridging and integrating conceptual, empirical and practitioner perspectives to provide a deeper understanding of this rapidly growing field of study.