Research Guidelines & Suggested Resources
Entrepreneurship I |MGT 425.70 | Ken Proudfoot
Created by Karen Tercho, MLS
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Find BOOKS in
the library catalog & stacks
General Collection:
BF448 .G53 2005. Blink: the power of thinking without
thinking / Malcolm Gladwell.
HB74.P8 L479 2005. Freakonomics: a rogue economist explores the hidden side
of everything /
Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner.
HC106.82 .H39 1999. Natural capitalism: creating the next
industrial revolution / Paul
Hawken, Amory Lovins, and
L. Hunter Lovins.
HD30.28
.S923 2005. The ABC's of
writing winning business plans: how to prepare a business plan that others will want to read--and invest in / Garrett
Sutton.
HD57.7 .C645 2001. Good to great: why some
companies make the leap-- and others don't / Jim
Collins.
HD62.7 .S875 2005. The
small business bible: everything you need to know to succeed in your small
business / Steven D.
Strauss.
HF5415
.L477 2007. Guerrilla
marketing: easy and inexpensive strategies for making big profits from your
small business / Jay Conrad Levinson ; with
Jeannie Levinson and Amy Levinson.
HF5415.1265
.A57 2005. The ultimate
guide to electronic marketing for small business: low-cost/high-return tools
and techniques that really work / Tom Antion.
HM1033 .G53 2002. The tipping point: how little things can make
a big difference / Malcolm Gladwell.
Reference Collection:
Ref.
HF296.P8 M53 2007. Business and industry directory and resource guide / Greater
Providence Chamber of Commerce.
Ref. HF1010 .M67 2004. Strauss's handbook of business information: a
guide for librarians, students, and researchers / Rita W. Moss.
Ref. HF5415.3 .E527 1994. Encyclopedia of consumer brands / editor, Janice Jorgensen.
Find
ARTICLES in DATABASES
Library Home > Articles & Databases > EBSCOhost > Academic Search Premier, Business Source
Premier, Vocational and Career
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Narrow by
“Publication Type” (e.g. Market Research
Reports; Industry Profiles), “Subject,” and “Thesaurus Term”
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Find specific
subject wordings by searching “Subjects” (upper left-hand in browser), and
write the terms down
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Use search
terms to conduct further searches
NEIT
Library Website
Library Home > Web Resources > Research Websites
> Business Resources > Entrepreneurship/Small
Business
Library Home > Research
Guides > Subject Resources >
Business
Search
the WEB
Government and Non-Profit Sources:
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U.S.
Census Bureau > http://www.census.gov
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Central
Intelligence Agency > https://www.cia.gov/library/index.html:
The World Factbook – info on specific countries
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Kauffman Foundation > http://www.kauffman.org/resources.cfm.
Browse a variety of entrepreneurial research reports; use as evidence for
certain market trends.
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Organisation for
Economic Co-operation and Development> http://www.oecd.org. International
statistics and publications
Commercial Sites:
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About.com: Marketing, Statistics and Research > http://marketing.about.com/od/statisticsandresearch/Marketing_Statistics_and_Research.htm
Ø Google
Directory, Business > http://www.google.com/Top/Business/
and Google Directory, Market Research > http://www.google.com/Top/Business/Marketing_and_Advertising/Market_Research/
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Google
Patent > http://www.google.com/patents
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Wilson Research Group > http://www.wilsonresearch.com/main/resources.php.
Free marketing research reports and an online discussion forum.