Overview of business law
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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.
Law encyclopedias from Oxford Reference Online
Law encyclopedias from Oxford Reference Online
Search or browse across nine subject encyclopedias and dictionaries with over 12,000 entries. References are linked via Get VText.
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.
Gale Encyclopedia of American Law
Gale Encyclopedia of American Law
The Gale Encyclopedia of American Law provides articles in HTML and PDF on all aspects of American law: legal terms and concepts, cases, people, entities, and events. In Focus essays accompany related entries and provide additional facts, details, and arguments on particularly interesting, important, or controversial issues raised by those entries. Details on landmark legal cases and several primary documents are also provided.
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