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MGMT 492

Keywords

What are keywords? Keywords are the most important words in a research statement or question. They are words that create significance or meaning.

Why use keywords? Keywords are important in research because they are highly useful to facilitate a search for information. They open the doors to vast amounts of information. Keywords may also be referred to as "search terms."

How to use keywords? You can combine keywords using boolean operators. This can help add specificity to your search. A database won't be able to parse a question or statement, using boolean operators will help you find better results while searching.

Using Boolean Operators

AND, OR, NOT

  • AND combines two search words together. Both must appear in your article, narrowing your results. 
  • OR allows you to search for synonyms or like terms. Only one of the terms must appear in your article, broadening your results. 
  • NOT removes a specific term from your results.

Quotation marks

  • Phrases stick together as one keyphrase. "climate change"; "blue whale"; "Cretaceous period"

Asterisks

  • Add to the end of a root word to find all words that include all words that include that root term. volcan* - volcano, volcanic, volcanology, volcanism

Find a Book

 

If you find a physical book, it will have something called a call number. The call number is like its home address; it explains where the book "lives" in the library. You can copy and paste any call number into the Call Number Locator below to find its location in the library. 

A call number will look something like this: 

HD66 .S4849 2017

Use the call number locator map below to see what shelf the book is located on in the library.

Browse for Books

In our third floor stacks our books are organized by topic using the Library of Congress Classification. This means if you find a book on the shelf about a certain topic, the books in the same general area will be similar in scope. This is really helpful for browsing the stacks. When you find a book that's relevant, take a look at the nearby titles, look at their tables of contents and indexes, maybe another book is more relevant to your research.

In business research you may find yourself in these areas of the collection more frequently then others:

BF - Psychology

G - Geography

  • G154.9-155.8 Travel and state. Tourism

H - Social Sciences

  • HA Statistics
  • HB Economic Theory. Demography
    • HB615 Entrepreneurship
  • HC Economic History and Conditions
  • HD Industries. Land Use. Labor
    • HD28-70 Management
    • HD60-60.5 Social Responsibility of Business. Social Entrepreneurship.
    • HD1361-1395.5 Real Estate Business
  • ​HE Transportation and Communications
  • HF Commerce
    • HF5410-5417.5 Marketing
    • HF5549-5549.5 Personnel Management. Employee Management
    • HF5601-5689 Accounting. Bookkeeping
    • HF5801-6182 Advertising
  • HG Finance
    • HG179 Personal Finance
  • HJ Public Finance
  • HM Sociology
  • HN Social History and Conditions. Social Problems. Social Reform

K - Law in General

  • KF Law of the United States

T - Technology

Select Titles

Here is a selection of books available at the library that you might find useful for your Strategic Management class and for the Organization Analysis project. If you are interested in finding a particular book, look at the item's record to get the location and call number. Reference books are located on the 1st floor of the library near the computers. Books you can borrow (location 'Stacks') are located on the 3rd floor of the library. Electronic books are viewable online.