Overview of business research
Use this guide to perform background research to refine a research topic, confirm terminology, find regulations and standards, and get a general understanding before finding books and articles to support a research project.
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Regional Business News from EBSCOhost
Regional Business News from EBSCOhost
The Regional Business News database indexes abstracts, citations, and full-text articles from journals, trade publications, newspapers, and radio and TV news transcripts in the field of business and economics. 1969-present.
Economics and Business encyclopedias from Oxford Reference Online
Economics and Business Encyclopedias from Oxford Reference Online
Search or browse across nine subject encyclopedias and dictionaries with over 30,000 entries. References are linked via Get VText.
Encyclopedia of Products & Industries - Manufacturing from Gale Virtual Reference Library
Encyclopedia of Products & Industries - Manufacturing from Gale Virtual Reference Library
The Encyclopedia of Products & Industries - Manufacturing provides full-text essays on industrial codes, product overviews, markets, key manufacturers, supply chain logistics, distribution channels, key users, adjacent markets, research and development, current trends, target markets, and related organizations.
Encyclopedia of Management from Gale Virtual Reference Library
Encyclopedia of Management from Gale Virtual Reference Library
The Encyclopedia of Management provides full-text reference articles in HTML and PDF on the business, economics, technology, and legal aspects of management.
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