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The Business Library and How to Use It: A Guide to Sources and Research Strategies for Information on Business and Management (Business Library and How to Use It)
The Business Library and How to Use It A Guide to Sources and Research Strategies for Information on Business and Management - Business Library and How to Use It Author:Anthony J. Faria, Peter Kaatrude, Elizabeth Wood Revised and updated for the first time in 12 years, The Business Library and How to Use It is your key to timely and relevant business information. For more than 40 years students, teachers, librarians, and business people have been using this standard source to prepare business plans, topical reports, financial analyses, government surveys, in... more »vestment strategies, marketing campaigns, and other research projects. Arranged in 16 easy-to-use chapters, this work is an informative guide to conducting business research from start to finish. Each chapter features an introduction to the topic, an in-depth descriptive list of relevant sources, and tasks the sources can be used to accomplish. The book begins with an introduction to business research and the library. Then follows a section devoted to research strategies and general sources of business information. In the third section separate chapters cover these specific sources of business information: handbooks and almanacs, yearbooks and encyclopedias, directories, dictionaries, government publications, audiovisual aids, international sources, and research foundations and associations. The final section shows readers how to use what they've learned by describing how to write a research-based business report.« less