LibGuides: Business and management: Overview

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Welcome to the Business and management guide. Throughout the guide's sections you'll find our suggestions for key resources and information in this subject area.

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To get you started, here are the key shelfmark areas for your subject. The floor information is for books; print journals will have the same shelfmark but all journals are on the third floor.

Subject	Shelfmark	Floor
Management	HD30-HD70	1
Business research methods	HD30.4	1
Globalisation	HF1359-HF1613	1
Marketing	HF5415	1
Work and employment	HD4802-HD8971	1
Human resource management	HF5549	1
Accounting	HF5550-HF5695	1
Management of information systems	T55-60	2

Recorded lectures for Business students

These videos were recorded in September 2021, to share with new and continuing students. Let me know if there other topics you'd like videos on.
If the embedded videos don't work on your browser, use the links beneath each video.

1 Library Basics

2 Business specific resources

3 Getting support

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Featured resources

#MeToo, Weinstein and Feminism by Karen Boyle
ISBN: 9783030282424
Publication Date: 2019-11-13
This book provides a feminist analysis of #MeToo and the sexual assault allegations against celebrity perpetrators which have emerged since the Weinstein story of October 2017. It argues for the importance of understanding #MeToo in relation to an on-going history of Anglo-American feminist activism, theory and interdisciplinary research. Boyle investigates how speaking out about rape, sexual assault and harassment on social media can be understood in relation to second-wave feminist traditions of consciousness-raising. Her argument explores the media depiction of feminism - and feminists - in the wake of Weinstein and the cultural values associated with men's abuse, particularly within the film and television industries. The book concludes with an exploration of what the #MeToo era has meant for men as victims/survivors and as alleged perpetrators, in relation to narratives of victimisation and of monstrosity.
The Future of Management in an AI World by Jordi Canals (Editor); Franz Heukamp (Editor)
ISBN: 9783030206796
Publication Date: 2019-10-07
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is redefining the nature and principles of general management. The technological revolution is reshaping industries, disrupting existing business models, making traditional companies obsolete and creating social change. In response, the role of the manager needs to urgently evolve and adjust. Companies need to rethink their purpose, strategy, organisational design and decision-making rules. Crucially they will also need to consider how to nurture and develop the business leaders of the future and develop new ways to interact with society on issues such as privacy and trust. Containing international insights from leading figures from the world of management and technology, this book addresses the big challenges facing organisations, including: · Decision-making · Corporate strategy · People management and leadership · Organisational design Taking a holistic approach, this collection of expert voices provides valuable insight into how firms will discover and commit to what makes them unique in this new big data world, empowering them to create and sustain competitive advantage.
Gender, Class and Occupation by Ruth Simpson; Jason Hughes; Natasha Slutskaya
ISBN: 9781137439697
Publication Date: 2016-08-18

Super Pumped by Mike Isaac
ISBN: 9780393652246
Publication Date: 2019-09-03
Backed by billions in venture capital dollars and led by Travis Kalanick, a brash and ambitious founder, Uber promised to revolutionize the way we move people and goods through the world. But in June 2017, Uber's hard-charging CEO was ousted in a boardroom coup that capped a brutal year for the transportation giant. What followed would become a corporate cautionary tale about the perils of startup culture and a vivid?example of how blind worship of startup founders can go wildly wrong.? Based on hundreds of interviews with current and former Uber employees, along with previously unpublished documents, Super Pumped presents a tale of the startup's dramatic rise and fall in an era of rapid upheaval in Silicon Valley
Student Start-Ups: the New Landscape of Academic Entrepreneurship by Mike Wright; Donald S. Siegel (Editor); Philippe Mustar
ISBN: 9789811214974
Publication Date: 2019-12-30
There has been a substantial rise in the number of entrepreneurship courses and programs at colleges and universities. Despite the rapid rise of undergraduate entrepreneurship, there have been few academic studies of this phenomenon. Little is known about the antecedents and consequences of these activities. Student Start-Ups: The New Landscape of Academic Entrepreneurship is the first book of its kind on student entrepreneurship. It sets out to provide a structured approach to understanding the development of the phenomenon by synthesizing and offering the best available quantitative data and new case studies from a range of countries and universities. In doing so, they present the evolution of different models of student entrepreneurship with insights and implications for practice, policy and research.
Not Working by David G. Blanchflower
ISBN: 9780691181240
Publication Date: 2019-06-18
Leader's Guide to Mindfulness: how to use soft skills to get hard results by Audrey Tang
Call Number: HD57.7.T36 2019
ISBN: 9781292248400
Publication Date: 2019

Positive Organizational Behaviour by Arménio Rego; Ace Simpson; Stewart Clegg; Miguel Pina e. Cunha
ISBN: 9781138293083
Publication Date: 2020-02-10
Positive Organizational Behaviour: A Reflective Approach introduces the most recent theoretical and empirical insights on positive organizational practices, addressing emerging topics such as resilience, job crafting, responsible leadership and mindfulness. Other books on positive approaches tend to gloss over the limitations of the positive agenda, but this textbook is unique in taking a reflective approach, focussing on the positive while also accommodating critical perspectives relating to power and control. Positive Organizational Behaviour provides an integrated conceptual framework, evidence-based findings and practical tools to gain an understanding of the potential of positive organizational practices. This innovative new textbook will provide advanced management and psychology students with a grounding in the area, and help them develop strategies for building effective and responsible organizations.
Advances in Corporate Branding by John M. T. Balmer (Editor); Shaun M. Powell (Editor); Joachim Kernstock (Editor); Tim Oliver Brexendorf (Editor)
ISBN: 1349957984
Publication Date: 2018-04-28

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Business and management: Overview