Management Resources
Library Guide | Databases | E-journals | Associations & Organisations | E-Books | Resource Finders | Statistics
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Databases
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ABI Inform Global - key international business and management database. Analyses your search and suggests alternatives and identifies key journals for browsing. Available online via Proquest
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Butler Group- provides a fulltext portfolio of information technology research aimed at the needs of all levels of executive, from IT professionals to senior managers and board directors. Focuses on the impact of IT has on business, from product purchase decisions to developing effective high-level strategy. They range from the visionary - looking up to five years ahead - to the current practical use of technology. Password required. Contact InfoHelp.
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DatAnalysis - provides reports for all companies listed on the ASX and other financial information. The Company Reports section provides comprehensive data for all ASX listed companies. These reports are updated daily from relevant ASX announcements and include details about each company such as a Business Summary, Directors & Management, Company History, Listing Details, Operational History, Takeovers, Capital Table, and Complete Annual Reports. A reporting tool allows you to create your own reports from the database to print or download.
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Emerald intelligence +fulltext - features niche management disciplines including strategy, change management, and international marketing. Provides access to the fulltext of over 150 management journals in the MCB stable - strong European focus. Available via Emerald intelligence + fulltext (Online)
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Expanded Academic ASAP - provides citations, abstracts and for many journals the full-text of articles; significant coverage in the area of tourism. Available via InfoTrac.
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IngentaConnect - a large database covering the humanities and social sciences with links to fulltext where a subscription exists, allows payment for ordering of articles. Available via IngentaConnect.
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Proquest - a major collection of online databases with full text articles from over 3000 journals, it has a business focus but includes resources from many other subject areas including education, medicine, computing, telecommunications, science and social science.
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SpringerLink - a large e-journal publisher provides a search across their stable of publications. Articles available electronically through subscription are marked. Available through SpringerLink.
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AIMMAT AIM Management And Training - covers all aspects of management, training and human resources, including organisational change, workplace relations, business ethics, customer service marketing and leadership. Mostly Australian journals are indexed with some titles from New Zealand and South East Asia included. Available through Informit.
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MEDGE Management Edge- indexes and abstracts articles on management issues for business and government; including international economies, the Australian economy, strategic and financial management, TQM, human resources, marketing, materials handling, innovation; and environmental management, such as recycling and litter control.
E-Journals
A selection of key management journals available online (holdings differ between suppliers - check Tropicat for print holdings and other sources)
E-Books
JCU library provides access to a number of e-books, viewable by anyone with a current JCU account and an internet connected computer. These items are listed in Tropicat. A small sample of what's available follows:
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Decision management how to assure better decisions in your company
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Enterprise-wide strategic information systems planning for Shanghai Bell Corporation
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Knowledge and information technology management human and social perspectives
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Virtual teams that work creating conditions for virtual team effectiveness
Associations & Organisations
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International Association for Human Resource Information Management (IHRIM)
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Management Research Network (MRN) -consists of the Corporate Strategy & Business Policy Network, Information Systems & eBusiness Network, International Business Network, Management Network, Marketing Network, Negotiations & Dispute Resolution Network, Organizational Behavior Research Network, and Production & Operations Research Network
Management Resource Finders
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Business, Economics and Labour - links from the University of Michigan
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DocuTicker Business and Economics Archive - offers a hand-picked selection of resources, reports and publications from government agencies, NGOs, think tanks and other public interest organizations.
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Global Edge - business knowledge web portal, includes country and industry profiles
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Management - resources, explanations, definitions and history courtesy of wikipedia.org
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Social Science Information Gateway to management resources on the web
Management Topics
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BizStats.com - access to financial ratios, business statistics and benchmark, and understandable online analysis of businesses and industries.
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Business Plans and Profiles Index - from the Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh, lists types of small businesses and a corresponding sample business plan, profile or book about the business with sources provided after each entry. Entries that refer to actual sample plans are in bold print. If the plan or profile is online, a link is provided.
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Change Management InfoKit - although it focuses on the education sector, this project team puts together theories, approaches and tools that resonated with them and with those they talked to about their experiences of the practical difficulties of managing change. Includes theoretical models, change roles and managing the process.
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Consumer Behaviour - from the Encyclopedia of Psychology
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EJBO - Electronic Journal of Business Ethics and Organisation Studies
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Entrepreneurship Research Portal - links to full text where available, includes economic, finance, social science, law, management, marketing and policy aspects of entrepreneurship.
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ISO 9000 - International standards for management systems
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Know This .com - the marketing virtual library aimed at to providing unbiased, objective information that will offer valuable tools for business professionals, academicsand students of marketing and related fields
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The Project Manager's Homepage - articles, tips, forums, business and project plan templates
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Social Science Information Gateway to consumer behaviour resources on the web
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VIBES - Virtual International Business & Economic Sources
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Wikipedia list of business ethics, political economy, and philosophy of business topics
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ZeroMillion.com - resources for entrepreneurs
Statistics
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ABS AusStats - AusStats is a web based information service providing the full standard product range of the Australian Bureau of Statistics on-line.
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US Business Statistics - data files used in the Statistics of U.S. Businesses (SUSB) program were created from the annual County Business Patterns (CBP) files.