Research Starters- Business

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A Comprehensive Scholarly, Business Full-Text Database

This database provides business students with a solid foundation for their research and assignments, as well as overview information on topics relevant to their studies. Comprehensive summaries of discipline-specific topics help students to grasp the broad outlines of a subject, understand real world applications, critically engage with the topics, and locate sources for advanced research. 

Comprehensive records and relevant business information

In addition to containing an abstract and list of pertinent keywords to the article, records also include information on why the topic is relevant to business and its implication to stakeholders.  Further record details include insights and applications to outline how the points in the overview can be applied to business as well as viewpoints to enable business students to develop a critical perspective on the topic.  Records also include a glossary of Terms and  Concepts, a Bibliography and a Suggested Reading list.  

Carefully chosen topics

Business topics were chosen through careful analysis of the course offerings of major business schools at colleges and universities including; the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Notre Dame, the University of Michigan, Indiana University, the University of Texas, Virginia Tech and many more.  

Subject matter experts holding advanced degrees in business, law, political science, psychology, and economics were consulted to ensure that the articles encompassed current trends and popular topics in the business world.

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