Welcome to the South College LibGuide for Business! This guide provides information and reliable resources to help answer your questions about ethics, finance, case studies, globalization, and more.
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Ebook Collections
Ebooks
Open Access Journals
Often you will need to access business cases for your classes or assignments. The library has access to many cases, whether electronically or in books and journals. Sometimes, you will need to access a case that we do not have a license for; you will have to pay for these cases the way you would pay for a textbook.
Commercial vs. Free Case Studies
There is a lot of variation in the definition of a case study. Case studies usually present the pertinent facts about a real or fictional business or management "problem." Teaching cases are intended to provide the reader with sufficient data to evaluate multiple courses of action. They may pose questions to stimulate critical thinking and help readers to apply theory to the analysis of the events portrayed.
Commercial publishers, like the well-known Harvard Business School, produce cases for classroom use. These often provide faculty with teaching notes and other resources to support instruction. Generally, the only way to get copies of a commercial case is to purchase them (one copy for every student in the class) from the publisher. It is not possible for the library to get copies of commercial cases on interlibrary loan (ILL).
Case studies found in business texts and traditional books, journals and magazines, (like Harvard Business Review) and even freely available on the Web, often are shorter and may not provide the same structured teaching/learning tools as commercial cases. However, they may be valuable for engaging student discussion and problem solving
Do a Library Search using the search term "case studies" and your topic. Example: "case studies" and "organizational behavior."
You can also browse by doing a subject search with one of the following subjects (copy and paste for accuracy):
Business ethics -- Case studies
Business failures -- Case studies
Business networks -- Case studies
Electronic commerce -- Case studies
Entrepreneurship -- Case studies
Industrial management -- Case studies
Industrial relations -- Case studies
International business enterprises -- Case studies
Leadership -- Case studies
Organizational change -- Case studies
Organizational effectiveness -- Case studies
Company-Specific Case Studies
Open Access Case Study Journals
Need a specific case the library doesn't have? First, try Googling the title of the case, which usually takes you to a site where it can be purchased.
You can also browse cases in the following websites:
This orientation module is focused on Business Program resources. For a general library orientation, please choose one of the location-based orientations on the library's Orientations page.
