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General Business Resources

Content developed by:
Judy O'Dell, Reference Librarian/
Business, Economics, and Law Bibliographer
Phone: (989) 774-3787
E-mail:judith.o'dell@cmich.edu

Last Updated: 12/12/07

 

Associations and Organizations
  • U. S. Chamber of Commerce
    Business federation representing more than 3 million businesses.
  • U. S. Department of Commerce
    Promotes job creation, economic growth, sustainable development and improved living standards for all Americans by working in partnership with business, universities, communities and workers.
  • World Chamber of Commerce Directory
    Reference HF294 W75 2002
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Business Schools/Learning
  • All Business Schools
    Directory of accredited MBA programs and business career resources.
  • Biz/ed
    Provides access to web based learning materials for students, teachers and lecturers of business, economics, accounting, leisure and recreation and travel and tourism.
  • Bschool.com
    Alphabetical list of schools plus links to supporting information.
  • Financial Times
    Global MBA rankings.
  • Which MBA
    Guide to the world's best MBAs.
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Bibliography
  • The Core Business Web: a Guide to Key Information Resources
    Book HD 30.37 C67 2003
  • The Extreme Searcher's Internet Handbook: a Guide for the Serious Searcher
    Book ZA 4230 H63 2004
  • The Skeptical Business Searcher: the Information Advisor's Guide to Evaluating Web Data, Sites, and Sources
    Book HF 54.56 B4685 2004
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Dictionaries, Encyclopedias and Thesauri
  • Economic Terms A to Z
    Definitions of international business terms, abbreviations and acronyms; profiles of influential and controversial business writers, entrepreneurs and managers; and guides addressing everyday business challenges.
  • QuickMBA
    Short articles providing insight to many areas of business.
Directories
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Corporate Rankings
  • Forbes Lists
    Contains links to multiple ranking of companies, people, and places etc.
  • Fortune 500
    Site includes rankings and links to company profiles. Search the Fortune 500 and other related lists.
  • Global 500
    Site includes rankings and links to company profiles.
  • IndustryWeek: IW 1000
    Ranks manufacturers. Search or rank by various criteria.
  • Price's List of Lists
    A clearinghouse for information in the form of rankings of different people, organizations, companies, etc.
  • Web100
    Tracks the largest American and international companies on the Web (ranked by revenue), listing them along with their Fortune 500 and Global 500 rankings.
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Corporate/Industry Data
  • Access Gateway to Government Files Online
    Contains links to Secretary of State Internet Web sites and Internet addresses for online access to public records and information on corporations, partnerships, businesses & other entities.
  • Business Filings Databases
    Links to State sites that provide corporate and business filings.
  • CNN Money: Company Research
    Search for company profiles.
  • Company Profiles
    Search for information on public, private and international companies, company reports including Hoover's Company Reports and S & P Corporate Descriptions. CMU access only.
  • Compare Companies
    Searches Hoover's Company Reports by selected criteria. CMU access only.
  • Corporate Affiliations
    Guide to corporate families in the U.S. and worldwide. CMU access only.
  • CorporateInformation
    Find profiles, research reports, message boards etc. for public, private, foreign and domestic companies.
  • Industry Research Desk
    Provides links to sites for researching specific companies, industries, and manufacturing processes.
  • Mergent Online
    Find details of company highlights, history, officers, financials, ratios and annual reports etc. CMU access only.
  • Reference USA
    Search for detailed profiles and affiliations of local, regional and national U.S. companies. CMU access only.
  • Researching Companies Online
    This business research tutorial presents a step-by-step process for finding free company and industry information on the World Wide Web.
  • Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage
    Provides directory, stock, bond, mutual fund, industry and corporate financial data.. CMU access only.
  • Thomson Research
    Search for current and historical, full or partial SEC reports using a variety of criteria. Contains annual reports of U. S. companies. CMU access only.
  • Yahoo Finance-Industry Center
    Industry profiles, press releases, news and market summaries for major industries.
  • Yahoo Finance Search
    Find private companies, subsidiaries, people etc.
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Industry/Product Classification
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Find an Article
  • ABI/Inform
    Index to periodical articles on all areas of business from U. S. and International publications. Covers 1971 to present and is updated weekly. Many articles are full text. CMU access only.
  • Business and Management Practices
    Focuses on how organizations make and implement decisions, develop and launch new strategies, and plan for change. Includes case studies and how-to articles. Covers 1995 to present and is updated weekly. Many articles are full text. CMU access only.
  • Business News
    Business articles from newspapers, magazines, journals, wires & transcripts. CMU access only.
  • DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals-Business and Management
    Covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.
  • Industry & Market News
    Search news sources by keyword and industry. CMU access only.
  • Wilson Business Abstracts
    International English-language business magazines, covering accounting, finance, management, and small business. Covers 1986 to present and is updated monthly. CMU access only.
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Business Research
  • The Corporate Library
    Intended to serve as a repository for research, study and critical thinking about the nature of the modern public corporation, with a focus on corporate governance and the relationship between company management, boards and shareholders. Most general content is open to visitors at no cost; some advanced research is restricted to subscribers only.
  • Global Research Business
    Indexes papers from many of the world's leading business Universities, Research Institutions and Centers. Searches are free but detailed data or full text requires a membership.
  • Social Science Research Network
    SSRN is a world wide collaborative of leading scholars devoted to the dissemination of social science research. It is composed of a number of specialized research networks including accounting, economics, finance, and law.
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Business Case Studies
  • CasePlace.org
    Online searchable database of abstracts of business case studies and supplementary materials used to integrate social and environmental issues into the curriculum. Cases must be ordered from the publishing source.
  • The Times 100 UK: marketing theory, business case studies
    A free educational source providing 100 online case studies of companies.
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Business Ethics/Social Responsibility
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Business/Labor History
  • American Business Leaders: from Colonial Times to the Present
    Reference HC 102.5 A2 H36 1999
  • Biographical Dictionary of American Business Leaders
    Reference HC 102.5 A2 I53
  • Biographical Dictionary of American Labor
    Reference HD8073 A1 B56 1984
  • Biographical Dictionary of Management
    Reference HD30.15 B43 2001t
  • Business History of the World : a chronology
    Reference HC 51 R615 1993
  • Corporate Eponymy: a Biographical Dictionary of the Persons Behind the Names of Major American, British, European, and Asian Businesses
    Reference HC 29 R66 1992
  • Dictionary of Labour Biography
    Reference HD8393 A1 B44
  • EH Net Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History
    Designed to provide students and laymen with high quality reference articles
  • Encyclopedia of American Business History and Biography
  • The Airline Industry
    Reference TL 509 E54 1992
  • The Automobile Industry, 1896-1920
    Reference HD9710 U52 A815 1990
  • Banking and Finance to 1913
    Reference HG2461 B33 1990
  • Iron and Steel in the Nineteenth Century
    Reference HD9515 I76 1989
  • Railroads in the Nineteenth Century
    Reference HE2751 R1433 1988
  • Railroads in the Age of Regulation, 1900-1980
    Reference HE2751 R143 1988
  • Encyclopedia of American Women in Business: from Colonial Times to the Present
    Reference HD 6054.4 U6 K753 2004
  • Gale Encyclopedia of U. S. Economic History
    Articles on general business and economic history. Michigan residents only.
  • Great Events from History II. Business and Commerce Series
    Reference HC 55 G68 1994
  • Handbook of American Business History
    Books HC 103 H19 1990 v 1-3
  • Thinkers 50
    Biographical information about people voted as the top business thinkers.
  • United States Business History, 1602-1988: a chronology
    Books HC 103 R595 1990
  • United States Entrepreneurs and the Companies They Built: an Index to Biogaphies in Collected Works
    Reference HC 102.5 A2 N237 2003
  • The World Wide Web Virtual Library Economic and Business History
    Assists economic and business historians to locate web sites.
  • The World Wide Web Virtual Library Labour History
    Assists labour and business historians to locate web sites.
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Book Stores/Reviews
  • Business Books
    Gives reviews and, lists of best sellers and best business books.
  • Business Books: Core Collections
    The best business books from the academy and from expert practitioners.
  • KIP Notes
    A collection of books, films and interviews on the histories of industries, companies, executives, products/services, economics, scandals and business fiction,. with essential books on management's investing, financing and operating decisions.
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Portals
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