Business
Overview
The following is a collection of selected resources related to the subject of Business. Please contact an OCLS Librarian if you need help locating additional resources.
Encyclopedias and reference (ebooks)
Business Plans Handbook
Encyclopedia of Small Business
International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
International Directory of Company Histories
Ebooks –Browse additional ebooks in Centra by searching your topic and putting "ebooks" in the note field
Click on the links below to access the most current CMU books on these general business topics.
Conflict Management
Diversity in the Workplace
Downsizing of Organizations
Employee, Recruiting
Leadership
Personnel Management
Public Administration
Strategic Planning
Unions
Research Databases for Articles
ABI/INFORM Global (Proquest) is one of the most comprehensive business databases on the market. Users can find out about business conditions, management techniques, business trends, management practice and theory, corporate strategy and tactics, and competitive landscape.
Business and Management Practices. (Business Management) Practical aspects and approaches to business management.
Centra Online catalog of books, videos and other materials including titles of journals owned by Central Michigan University.
Lexis Nexis Business provides a full range of credible sources for business information, including business and financial news, U.S. and international company financial information from government or private sources, market research, industry reports, and actual SEC filings. Search features permit comparison of companies based on criteria such as sales, income and number of employees.
Mintel Market Reports offers you a new understanding of all the major food and drink, consumer goods, retail, finance, leisure and travel markets. Mintel is also renowned for our research into changing consumer lifestyles and the implications for business.
Public Administration Abstracts includes public administration research, public administration theory, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.
Social Sciences Abstracts(SocSciAbs) indexes journals in a range of social science disciplines, including: political science, law, psychology, anthropology, geography, sociology and economics.
Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage is a comprehensive source of business and investment information, offering on-line access to popular Standard & Poor's research products such as Industry Surveys, Stock Reports, Corporation Records, The Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives, The Outlook, Mutual Fund Reports among others.
While Thomson Research is best known for its leading investment research, they offer the widest breadth of company research available with global filings, annual reports and market research studies.
Wilson Business Index gives access to feature articles, product evaluations, interviews, biographical sketches, corporate profiles, obituaries, surveys, statistical rankings, book reviews, reports from associations, societies, trade shows and conferences, and more.
Selected Websites
Administration
Codes of Ethics Online: Created by the Illinois Institute of Technology, provides links to codes of ethics documents for a wide variety of professions including government, military, healthcare and management.
The International Business Etiquette Internet Sourcebook: A wide range of business culture, social and traveling etiquette in various countries produced by Canada.
Lectric Law Library’s Business & General Legal Forms: Contains the more commonly used business forms that can be downloaded.
Michigan Small Business Development Center: Designed as an aid to persons looking to start a small business, the site provides publications and links to web sites on counseling, training services, government, business, international trade and Michigan sites and information on research conducted by the Center.
Occupational Outlook Handbook The Occupational Outlook Handbook is a nationally recognized source of career information, designed to provide valuable assistance to individuals making decisions about their future work lives.
O*net Online system serves as the nation's primary source of occupational information, providing comprehensive information on key attributes and characteristics of workers and occupations.
Starting a Small Business: The Feasibility Analysis by Michael D. Reilly and Norman L. Millikin, College of Business, Montana State University-Bozeman. This Montana State University extension Service guide shows “how to perform a basic economic feasibility analysis: a preliminary evaluation of your business idea to see if it’s worth pursuing” May be viewed or printed using Adobe Acrobat Reader
Tax Information for Charitable Organizations by the IRS.
University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives-Feasibility Studies: Online textbook chapter devoted to feasibility studies.
U.S. Small Business Administration: The home page of the U.S. Small Business Administration. Includes links to information on starting, financing and expanding a business, SBA offices and services, ProNet: the SBA Procurement Marketing and Access Network, and the SBA's Online Library.
Company Information
AnnualReports.com AnnualReports.com provides instant access to corporate annual reports in their actual format in one single location.
EDGAR: Security & Exchange Commission Financial Information: All companies, foreign and domestic are required to file registration statements and other financial forms electronically through EDGAR.
Hoover’s Online: Comprehensive company, industry, and market research information. Free content access is limited. A list of the current Fortune 500 with links to their home pages is included. A better source is the S&P Netadvantage.
North American Industry Classification System (NAICS): The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS, pronounced Nakes) was developed as the standard for use by Federal statistical agencies in classifying business establishments for the collection, analysis, and publication of statistical data related to the business economy of the U.S.
Standard Industry Classification (SIC): Use this index to find SIC codes that correspond to different products and services. You can search by keyword or by typing an SIC number to retrieve the appropriate descriptor for the number.
Organizations
ASTD: American Society for Training & Development: Learning and performance Certification Program
Better Business Bureau: Provides access to business and consumer alerts as well as helpful resources. You may also file a complaint concerning a business.
OSHA’s home page features links to compliance assistance, OSHA laws and regulations. their enforcement, cooperative programs, state programs, safety & health topics and statistics
SHRM: The web site of the Society for Human Resource Management, which is the world's largest association deveoted to human resource management.
Statistics
Consumer Price Indexes: The Consumer Price Indexes (CPI) program produces monthly data on changes in the prices paid by urban consumers for a representative basket of goods and services.
County and City Data Books: This resource provides demographic and some economic data
from selected years.
Financial Calculators Over 100 Personal Finance Calculators
Small Business State Profiles: Provides statistics on each state's small business economy.
Statistical Abstracts of the United States published since 1878, is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States.
