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Use this guide for business-specific sources and research methods.

Why use books (or ebooks)?

If you're looking for background information to contextualize your research topic, books are an ideal source for learning about the foundational people, events, theories, and texts of psychology. Because books take longer to write and publish than journal articles do, they don't always include the most recent data, but books can provide deeper engagement with a topic than a journal article can.

Recommended databases for ebooks

ProQuest eBook Central

ProQuest eBook Central

230,000+ ebooks, with an easy-to-use interface.

JSTOR

JSTOR

A great source for historical primary sources
and contemporary scholarship.

EBSCO eBook Collection

EBSCO eBook Collection

6,300+ ebooks to read online or download.

Leadership

Leadership Team Alignment

Leadership Team Alignment: From Conflict to Collaboration

Debunking much of the received wisdom regarding the sources of leadership team dysfunctionality, Leadership Team Alignment presents a targeted strategy for building and managing a top executive team to gain competitive advantage.

20 Dialogues on Modern Leadership

20 Dialogues on Modern Leadership

A collection of authoritative and highly informative readings that will provide managers and executives with a solid briefing and review of current and future issues in management and leadership.

Elevate Your Team

Elevate Your Team

In the sequel to his bestseller Elevate, Robert Glazer applies his groundbreaking capacity-building framework to teams and organizations alike.

Strategy as Leadership

Strategy as Leadership

Strategy as Leadership is about making sense of predictable but drastic changes that can alter the relationship between businesses and their competition.

Leadership: A Critical Review and Guide

Leadership: A Critical Review and Guide

Designed for students of leadership; those working in leadership positions; and for human resource professionals and management academics.

Social Engagement and Design Thinking

The Simplicity Playbook for Innovators

The Simplicity Playbook for Innovators: Creating Lovable Experiences in a Complicated World

Introduces five strategic shifts that will transform the way you look at your business—from customer research to product/service development.

Practical Sustainability Strategies

Practical Sustainability Strategies

The book addresses various strategies that can be implemented by an organization to develop, extend or maintain a competitive advantage without having a negative impact on the environment.

Corporate Responsibility in the Digital Age

Corporate Responsibility in the Digital Age

This book is a roadmap to help organizations adopt corporate responsibility and sustainability practices and be fit for purpose in a digital era. 

Continuing to Broaden the Marketing Concept

Continuing to Broaden the Marketing Concept

This volume brings together leading scholars to explore how marketing can push boundaries to fix important social problems including political division, world hunger, and data privacy.

Biomimicry and Business

Biomimicry and Business: How Companies Are Using Nature's Strategies to Succeed

Other books have described biomimicry, its uses, and its benefits. This book is the first to show readers how they can successfully bring biomimicry and bioinspired design into their companies based on what other businesses have already achieved.

70 Ads to Save the World

70 Ads to Save the World: An Illustrated Memoir of Social Change

Chronicling his evolution from corporate advertising to non-profit and political advertising work, Jerry Mander takes readers on a journey through the origin stories of some of the most memorable anti-establishment campaigns from the second half of the twentieth century.

Ethics

Innovation Ethics: Reframing the Investor Thesis

Innovation Ethics: Reframing the Investor Thesis

Innovation Ethics proposes a solution where we reframe a regulatory metric away from optimization towards innovation through the redistribution of risk across the entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Sustainability Ethics: Common Good Values for a Better World

Sustainability Ethics: Common Good Values for a Better World

The lens of sustainability ethics considers the interdependence of environmental, social, and economic factors in sustainable development.

Environmental, Social, Governance

Environmental, Social, Governance: The Professional's Guide to the Law and Practice of ESG

This comprehensive book is a practitioner's guide for understanding the myriad of issues related to ESG.

Progressive Corporate Law

Progressive Corporate Law

Reflecting recent re-examinations of the nature and purpose of the modern publicly held corporation, Progressive Corporate Law introduces the reader to alternative perspectives within the field.

Business Ethics and Social Responsibility

Business Ethics and Social Responsibility

Chapters are organized into five major themes: diversity, equity, and inclusion; the dignity of work, personal values and spirituality in the workplace; ethical norms and organizational values; corporate social responsibility; and business ethics in the college curriculum.

Conversations on Ethics and Business

Conversations on Ethics and Business: A Guide to Thinking about Workplace Ethics

Conversations about real-life ethically challenging situations form the core of the book, aimed specifically at business school teachers and students. 

Marketing

Brand Naming

Brand Naming

Brand Naming  details best-practice methodologies, tactics, and advice from the world of professional naming

Branding Black Womanhood

Branding Black Womanhood

Timeka N. Tounsel examines the individuals and institutions that have reconfigured Black women's empowerment as a business enterprise.

The Customer Education Playbook

The Customer Education Playbook

Customer learning experts Barry Kelly and Daniel Quick explain how teaching customers to best engage with your products and services is the key to converting them from prospects to loyal advocates of your brand. 

Greener Marketing

Greener Marketing

This book is intended to assist marketers, by means of clear and practical guidance, through a complex transition towards meaningful marketing that makes a positive creative impact on the climate crisis and on improving human life in troubled times. 

Strategic Brand Management and Development

Strategic Brand Management and Development

This book explores how organisations can design brand identities, develop brand marketing programmes, measure brand performance, and sustain brand equity, combining psychological, sociological, cultural, and management perspectives.

Influencer Marketing

Influencer Marketing: Building Brand Communities and Engagement

This is one of the first textbooks to explore the phenomenon of Influencer Marketing and how it fits within marketing communications to build brands and their communities.

Technology, Data, and Knowledge Management

A Practitioner's Guide to Data Governance

A Practitioner's Guide to Data Governance: A Case-Based Approach

In this practical guide, data experts Uma Gupta and San Cannon look to demystify data governance through pragmatic advice based on real-world experience and cutting-edge academic research.

Information Systems: What Every Business Student Needs to Know

Information Systems: What Every Business Student Needs to Know

This second edition is updated to include new technology, along with a new running case study.

Digital Transformation at Scale: Why the Strategy Is Delivery

Digital Transformation at Scale: Why the Strategy Is Delivery

This updated and expanded second edition explains how a growing band of reformers in businesses and governments around the world have helped their organisations pivot to a new way of working, and what lessons others can learn from their experience.

Strategy in the Digital Age: Mastering Digital Transformation

Strategy in the Digital Age: Mastering Digital Transformation

The book covers digital transformation, innovative services, and topics like AI, data analytics, and cybersecurity, providing a roadmap for digital strategy.

Future Skills: The 20 Skills and Competencies Everyone Needs to Succeed in a Digital World

An insightful discussion of how you can prepare yourself for the digital future of work. You'll learn which skills will be in the highest demand, why they'll command a premium price, and how to develop them.