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Business and Management Practices

Betty ThomasLIS 623

March 25, 2009

Overview Details

Providers

Coverage and Currency Key Journals

Two Searches Corporation

Management topic

RefWorks

Support

Summary

ContentBusiness Source Premier Business & Management

Practices Broader coverage

Country economic reports

Company & industry reports(Datamonitor)

Regional Business News

Practical aspects and approaches to managing a business

On-line articles focus on broad management issues, specific departments within a company, and issues that affect those departments

Includes case studies and “how to” articles

ProvidersBusiness Source Premier

Business & Management Practices

EBSCOhost

1998 HBR Full Text

NC Live

UNCG, UNCC, Queens, Davidson, CPCC, PLCMC

EBSCO Business Source line

1997 RDS on Dialog

1998 Dialog bought RDS

2002 Dialog partners w/Gale

Gale/Cengage Learning

Dialog

RDS Business Suite

SizeBusiness Source Premier Business & Management

Practices 10,184 –total number of serials

indexed, abstracted

Full text for >2300 journals

1984 to present (some back to 1922)

Frequency of updates – daily Concurrent users - unlimited

File size-722,698 records(ABI/Inform -3,243,267)

Full text articles – 60%Abstracts

1995 to present

Frequency of updates – daily Concurrent users -unlimited

Management Journals

Journal BSP B&MP

Harvard Business Review Yes Yes

Academy of Mgt Journal Yes Yes

Industrial & Labor Relations Rev. Yes Yes

HR Magazine Yes No

Journal of Org. Behavior No Yes

DIALOG(R)File 414 :Dialog Journal Name Finder(TM) (c) 2009 Dialog All rts. reserv.

58 Journals Available

Journal File Number

Type Record count

1 HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW 47 FULL TEXT 5596

2 HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW 15 FULL TEXT 4656

3 HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW 122 FULL TEXT 4536

4 HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW 88 FULL TEXT 4517

5 HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW 148 FULL TEXT 4192

6 HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW 484 FULL TEXT 3440

7 HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW 75 FULL TEXT 2205

8 HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW 13 FULL TEXT 2091

9 HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW 16 FULL TEXT 964

Two Searches

Company: Kimberly-Clark Corporation

Management term:

autonomous work groups

Sample Records Formats 8 & 9

(handout)

Kimberly-Clark Corporation Search on Business & Management Practices (Dialog) ?b 13 (Business & Management Practices database) ? s kimberly(w)clark(w)corporation 1911 KIMBERLY 7028 CLARK 37548 CORPORATION S16 16 KIMBERLY(W)CLARK(W)CORPORATION

? e co=kimberly Ref Items Index-term E1 4 CO=KIMBALL INTERNATIONAL INC E2 1 CO=KIMBALL OFFICE FURNITURE E3 0 *CO=KIMBERLY E4 88 CO=KIMBERLY-CLARK CORP E5 1 CO=KIMBERLY-CLARK CORP HISTORIC E6 1 CO=KIMBERLY-CLARK HEALTH CARE E7 1 CO=KIMBLE GLASS INC ? ss e4 S17 88 CO='KIMBERLY-CLARK CORP'

Found good, specific articles about KC Chose to try Concept Term selection -------------------------------------------------------------- -? s ct=decision making S21 3257 CT=DECISION MAKING ? s s17 and s21 88 S17 3257 S21 S22 1 S17 AND S21

Kimberly-Clark Corporation Search on Business Source Premier

Select Company Profiles on right side

Browse for Kimberly-Clark Corporation Click on KC for company highlights

Related Information on right side

Academic Journals – 10 results

Trade Publications – 23 results

Magazines – 10 results

Newspapers – 38 results (all WSJ)

SWOT Analysis – Datamonitor Report

Market Research – Market Watch Report

Datamonitor report

Business & Management PracticesSearch term: autonomous work groups

?b 13

? s (employee?(w)participation or participative(w)management or autonomous(w)work(w)group?) and (manufactur? or production) 715

?s autonomous(w)work(w)group? And (manufactur? or production) 8 one article off base on direct selling profession Good article: What makes teams take? Found CT term =teaming 629

?s ct= participatory management and dp=operations 8 Still got direct selling article Participation action research—a key to improved management Making teams work Keeping quality alive Found CT term=organizational structure Implementing management system with flexible work groups

Not full text but good abstract

Business Source PremierSearch term: autonomous work groups

Same terms as Business & Management Practices 5406

Autonomous work group* 55

Teams in workplace 35

Self directed work teams 318

Teams in workplace 120

Industrial organization 22 Excellent articles

Visual Search feature

RefWorksBusiness Source Premier

Business & Management Practices

Exports easily to RefWorks

Links back to source documents didn’t work

UNCG libraries do not use RefWorks so they don’t support it. They have EndNote or Zotero.

No predefined format for tagging in Dialog

Gale Technical Service says to email it to yourself and add the values manually. (It’s on a different platform than their other databases.)

HelpBusiness Source Premier

Business & Management Practices

Help sites

NC Live

EBSCO website

Training on request

Flash tutorials

No response from questions to EBSCO support site

Bluesheets (Dialog)

Gale/Cengage Training

Webinar --

RDS Business Suite

Good response from Gale Technical Support

Field rep response