Dynamics of Work & Work Organization

37:575:308

Prof. Charles Heckscher

 

You will find materials for this course throughout the Rutgers University Libraries, and your research may span multiple disciplines, including business, sociology, law, psychology and others.

 

IRIS: Rutgers University’s Online Catalog

 

IRIS can be searched by keyword or Library of Congress (LC) subject heading.  If you choose advanced search, you can combine these techniques.  As an example, if you choose not to use personal experience for your case description, try using some of these LC subject headings to find case study materials for your project:

 

·         Success in business

·         Organizational effectiveness -- case studies

·         Corporations – US – case studies

·         International management – US – case studies

·         International business enterprises – management – case studies

·         Strategic alliances (business) – case studies

 

For books on wide-ranging stakeholder issues, try:

·         Business ethics

·         Corporate governance

 

 

Books that are not at SMLR may be requested from other libraries within (Interlibrary Loan) and outside the Rutgers library system (use EZBorrow).

 

Subject Research Guides

 

On the Rutgers University Libraries home page, select Subject Research Guides and then, Business.   The assembled Research Guide assists research in a variety of business and management topics, with descriptions of databases and hundreds of reference books in the Rutgers collections. .Links to more than 3,000 selected business and management-related Internet resources are included.

 

Current news

·         Factiva A vast full-text archive of 8,000 leading newspapers, magazines, trade journals, newsletters, and television and radio transcripts. Ten to twenty year backfile for many titles. 

·         Lexis-Nexis Academic "News" section indexes and provides access to a large collection of U.S. and international newspapers, newsletters, wire service reports, transcripts of television and radio news broadcasts, and student newspapers.

·         Several New Jersey newspapers can be searched on the Newsbank: go to Subject Research Guide, under General click on Newspapers, then scroll down to Newsbank.

 

 

Indexes and Databases

·         Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost) (1984- ) Covers a broad array of disciplines with articles from over 4,000 publications, with approximately three quarters of those in full-text or full-image format.

·         Business and Industry Database (1994-) B&I is a multi-industry business database with a global focus on company, product, and industry information.  Tip:  Use company name and a concept term from the pull-down menu (e.g. downsizing, labor relations, outsourcing) to find relevant information.

    ·         Business Source Premier covers most business  and management topics including accounting, banking, economics, finance, international trade, marketing, and public administration. It contains the full-text (or abstracts) of articles from thousands of scholarly and professional publications, academic journals, and trade magazines. This database also includes profiles of the world's 10,000 largest companies, reports for over two thousand industry sectors, and hundreds of country risk and economic reports.

 

·         CQ Researcher  (1991-) Extensive collection of weekly reports from Congressional Quarterly. Each report offers data, a variety of opinions, and a bibliography on a specific 'hot' issue.

 

·         Datamonitor Business Information Center (covers the most recent 1-2 years) Datamonitor provides original industry and company (>10,000) reports based on published research and primary and secondary data sources.  Of interest: 500 company SWOT analyses (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats).

·         Econlit (1969) Indexes and abstracts more than 550 international economic journals covering articles, essays, research papers, books, dissertations, book reviews and working papers.

·         PAIS  International  (1972- ) Index to articles, books, and reports on public policy and international affairs. Tips: PAIS only displays abstracts. For the full-text of journal articles, click on Library Catalog Holdings, which will lead to IRIS, our online catalog, for locations of the journals. Before you do this, make certain you copy down the citation information, so you know the volume, issue and page number of the article you want to retrieve.  PAIS also has an Internet site feature which allows you to limit your search to that medium.

Internet Sites

 

      An independent investment research firm providing corporate governance data, analysis & risk assessment tools.

 

Rates 1,000 companies on corporate, social and environmental commitment.  Try a “Search for company profiles”.

 

Stakeholder Alliance

http://www.stakeholderalliance.org

The Stakeholder Alliance is a grassroots effort that seeks to change the corporate system to make it responsible to all stakeholders, instead of only to stockholders, and thus return corporations to their original public purpose. Our first objective is to make corporations fully and publicly accountable, through comprehensive public disclosure, for their actions.