The Andrew Carnegie Library at Livingstone College
Research Guide
MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
Andrew Carnegie Library
Livingstone College
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Finding Articles at Andrew Carnegie Library
Articles in journals, newspapers, and magazines are found by searching for an electronic index. Search for a topic by using a keyword search or for a specific article by using an author or a title search. The databases listed below include articles on topics in business, business education, management, marketing economics, and accounting, all of which are subjects related to business administration.
Available through NC Live: https://www.nclive.org
Institution: Livingstone College
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Description
ProQuest ABI/INFORM Collection
Business research from journals, trade publications, market research reports, dissertations, and working papers.
ProQuest Accounting, Tax, and Banking Collection
Global scholarly journals with other key resources for access to reliable information in this continuously evolving area of study. Quickly locate precise results from current news to professional and academic journal articles covering the trends and history influencing important accounting, tax, banking, and financial issues of the day.
ProQuest Asian & European Business Collection
Results provided for the study of business and finance topics across Asia and Europe, including academic journals, newspapers, newswires, and magazines. Find information on companies, economies, markets, international trade, and overall business conditions and practices throughout the regions of Asia and Europe.
ProQuest Business Market Research Collection
Conduct company, industry, economic and geopolitical market research with information from a variety of sources, including Hoover’s Company Profiles, OxResearch, and U.S. and Worldwide Industry & Market Reports from Barnes Reports.
ProQuest Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database
Articles span Canadian agriculture, business and economics, education, government and politics, health sciences, history, literature, medical sciences, social sciences, and more, with scholarly content comprising most results.
ProQuest Career and Technical Education Database
The definitive source for vocational information on technical topics, including computing science, healthcare, building trades, auto mechanics, sales and retail, accounting, graphic design, and photography.
Data-Axle Reference Solutions
Data-Axle Reference Solutions was created in 1998, under the name ReferenceUSA, to provide libraries with the most up-to-date business and consumer data available. More specifically, users may find data about U.S. companies, identify company ownership and sales, and research local businesses and markets.
ProQuest Entrepreneurship Database/Collection
This database bridges theory with practice, covering a wide spectrum of resources useful to educators, researchers, students, and practitioners. Available content ranges from the scholarly – including journals, dissertations, working papers and conference proceedings. In addition, a full toolkit is on hand consisting of practical guides, templates, forms, sample business plans from successful entrepreneurs in a wide range of video formats – from video to downloadable Word and Excel files, as well as traditional text and PDFs.
North Carolina Library System – Entrepreneurial Mindset Training Course
This free resource, though accessible through NC Live, is not maintained by NC Live. It has been selected as a complement to the current list of licensed resources.
Each lesson contains video case studies featuring a variety of real-world “unlikely” entrepreneurs who have overcome challenges by embracing the core concepts of an entrepreneurial mindset. The result is a new learning experience that reveals the underlying logic and methods that will empower you to think (and act) like an entrepreneur.
Films on Demand Video Collection
Thousands of high-quality videos on business & economics, health & medicine, humanities & social sciences, science & mathematics, as well as home and how-to-videos. Includes Oscar, Emmy and Peabody award winning documentaries, interviews, instructional and vocational training videos, historical speeches, and newsreels.
EBSCO Learning
Express Library
Career, Jobs & Test Preparation
Education & Teacher Resources
Homework Help
Morning Star Investing Center
Includes research and independent opinions on thousands of mutual funds, stocks, and hundreds of ETFs.
Wall Street Journal
Full articles from the Wall Street journal (1981-Current)
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Through the resources listed, users may find information on starting a company, operations management, sales, and growing or rescuing a faltering business.
Creating a business plan:
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Small Business Planner from the U.S. Small Business Administration https://www.sba.gov/business-guide/plan-your-business/write-your-business-plan
More business development tools:
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Business Link North Carolina: Start a Business
https://www.commerce.nc.gov/business/start-business-north-carolina
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NC.gov: How to Start a Business in NC
https://www.nc.gov/working/business-nc/start-my-business
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Foundation Center: Non-Profit Grant Seekers
https://www.learningtogive.org/resources/foundation-center
Periodicals in print for Business Administration are available in the Andrew Carnegie Library:
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Charlotte Observer – print only.
Finding Books at Andrew Carnegie Library
Regular collection books and reference books in the library collection are listed in the online catalog, which is available from the library home page http://livingstone.edu/academics/andrew-carnegie-library/ or http://www.livingstonecollege.worldcat.org/. Books are found by locating the following call numbers in the stacks:
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HB, HC - Economics
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HD - Labor economics
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HG - Financial economics
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HD - Economics of land & energy
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HX - Socialism & related systems
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HJ - Public finance
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HF - International economics
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HD - Production
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HB - Macroeconomics & related topics
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HF - Management & auxiliary services, Commerce
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HF - Accounting, Commerce
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HF - General management
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HF - Advertising & public relations
More than 1,940 print books for Business Administration, Economics, Management, Marketing, Education and Accounting are available in the Andrew Carnegie Library; at least 121 titles focus solely on Business Administration.
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After the music stopped – HB 3717 .B55 2013
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Business adventures: twelve classic tales from the world of Wall Street – HGT 181 .B836 2014
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Basic economics – HB 171 .S713 2011
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Boomerang: travels in the new third world – HB 3717 .L49 2012
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Business planning for turbulent times: new methods for applying scenarios – HD 30.28 .B848 2010
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Capital in the twenty-first century – HB 501 .P43613 2014
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Entrepreneurship – HB 615 .B366 2012
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Global entrepreneurship – HB 615 .K76 2014
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Happy healthy nonprofit – HD 2769.15 .K36 2017
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Misbehaving: the making of behavioral economics – HB 75 .T9 2011
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No more work: why full employment is a bad idea – HD 8045 .L58 2016
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Numbers rule your world – HA 29 .F845 2010
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Out of poverty: sweatshops in the global economy – HD 2337 .P694 2014
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Real estate accounting made easy – HF 5686 .R3 F25 2010
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Rethinking the MBA: business education at a Crossroads – HF 1131 .D38 2010
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This changes everything: capitalism vs the climate – HC 79 .E5 K56 2015
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Two narratives of political economics – HB 75 .T9 2011
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Wealth of nations – HB 161 .S655 2014
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What I didn’t learn in business school – HD 30.28 .H36835 2010
Books and eBooks are listed in databases available through NC Live:
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https://www.nclive.org/browse/format/ebooks or you may search specific databases.
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eBook Central Academic and Public Library Complete Scholarly titles supporting student and faculty research, and general nonfiction on topics such as school & studying, career development, arts & leisure, and practical life skills.
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eBooks on EBSCOhost Source contains 25,000 fiction, reference, scholarly, and professional books online.
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Open Library contains more than 100,000 downloadable e-books on various subjects.
There are more than 16,000 eBook titles available (full text online): A sampling of titles include:
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Business climate shifts: profiles of change makers
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Common knowledge: how companies thrive by sharing what they know
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Future of the MBA: designing the thinkers of the future
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Management and leadership of educational marketing research, practice, and applications
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Managing diversity-the courage to lead
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Managing value in Organizations: New Learning, Management, and Business Models.
Print and Audiovisual Materials not available in the library may be ordered through Interlibrary Loan.
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Available for processing through Interlibrary Loan (ILL) if materials are accessible; patrons may contact a librarian to submit a request for items not held in the collection.