ADDITIONAL RESOURCES OF INTEREST

Periodicals*

  • Business Week
  • Entrepreneur
  • Entrepreneurship: Theory & Practice (Formerly American Journal of Small Business)
  • Financial Times
  • Forbes
  • Fortune
  • Home Business Journal
  • Inc.
  • Journal of Business Venturing
  • Journal of Small Business Management
  • New York Times
  • The Times of London
  • The Times of India
  • The Wall Street Journal
  • Wall Street Journal Center for Entrepreneurs

*Many of these titles are accessible electronically through Bunch Library. Search for the title in CUB Cat, the library’s online catalog, to see what dates are available and which database has the full text. Ask reference librarian for help.

References* (Ask at reference desk for most recent issue or if you can't find an item you want.)

  • Almanac of Business & Industrial Financial Ratios (Troy, Leo)
  • Annual Statement Studies (Robert Morris Associates)
  • Barometer of Small Business (Accounting Corporation of America)
  • Financial Studies of the Small Business
  • Industry Norms & Key Business Ratios (Dun & Bradstreet, Inc.)
  • Simmons 1987 Study of Media & Markets (Simmons Market Research Bureau)
  • Small Business Bibliography (U.S. Small Business Administration)
  • Statistics of Income--Sole Proprietorship Returns (U.S. Treasury)
  • U.S. Industrial Outlook (U.S. Dept. of Commerce)
  • Market Share Reporter

*Search CUB Cat by title for library holdings.

Internet / World Wide Web

National Government:

  • FirstGov (U.S. Gov’t official web portal)
  • The Official Business Link to the U.S. Government
  • U.S. Small Business Administration
  • SBA Library
  • SBA Office of Advocacy, Statistics and Research
  • FedStats
  • Internal Revenue Service
  • Detailed statistics derived from tax returns
  • Minority Business Development Agency
  • U.S. Department of Commerce
  • Bureau of Economic Analysis
  • Economics and Statistics Administration
  • Economic Indicators
  • U.S. Census Bureau
  • American FactFinder
  • QuickFacts
  • County Business Patterns
  • The Economic Census
  • American Community Survey
  • Statistical Abstract of the U.S.
  • State Data Centers(Links to state level)
  • U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
  • Industry at a Glance
  • Occupational Outlook Handbook
  • Career Guide to Industries (CGI)
  • Economy at a Glance
  • U.S. Department of Labor
  • U.S. General Services Administration
  • U.S. Patent & Trademark Office
  • U.S. Copyright Office
  • U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission
  • EDGAR Database
  • U.S. Treasury

State & Local Government:

  • U.S. Census State Data Centers
  • Library of Congress Directory of State Governments
  • State & Local Government on the Net
  • Sterling’s Best Places
  • Tennessee Small Business Development Center
  • Tennessee Statistical Abstract

National Organizations

  • National Bureau of Economic Research
  • American Franchise Association
  • American Small Business Association
  • Association for Enterprise Opportunity
  • Association for Small Business Development Centers
  • Better Business Bureau
  • Coleman Foundation
  • Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization
  • eWeb @ St. Louis University
  • Family Firm Institute
  • Future Business Leaders of America
  • Idea Café
  • International Franchise Association
  • International Small Business Consortium
  • Junior Achievement
  • Kauffman Foundation
  • National Association for the Self-Employed
  • National Association of Home Based Businesses
  • National Business Incubation Association
  • National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance
  • National Minority Business Council
  • National Small Business Association
  • SCORE (Service Core of Retired Executives)
  • SIFE (Students in Free Enterprise)
  • Small Business Benefit Association
  • U.S. Assoc. for Sm. Business & Entrepreneurship
  • U.S. Chamber of Commerce
  • Young Entrepreneurs Organization

Industry Studies, Surveys, Reports, and Statistics

Free through BU . . .

  • ABI/Inform (Search “Topic Guide”; then see “Trade Publications”)
  • Bloomberg (Free access via BU trading room in CoBA)
  • Hoovers (A Dun Bradstreet Company)
  • LexisNexis Statistical Universe
  • ReferenceUSA (Find detailed info on any U.S. Business)
  • ValueLine

Fee based in general, but may be available “free” through the Public Library, Vandbilt, or libraries at other Universities . . .

  • Business Information Provider
  • Mintel
  • Industry Reports
  • Industry Reports
  • Plunkett Research Online
  • Standard & Poor’s Net Advantage (Key Industry Ratios)Available at Vanderbilt

Academic / Textbooks*

  • Drucker, Peter Ferdinand, 1992. Managing for the future: The 1990s and beyond. New York, New York: Dutton.
  • Fry, F. & Stoner, C., & Weinzimmer, L., 1999. Strategic planning for the new and emerging businesses: A consulting approach. Chicago, IL: Dearborn Publishing.
  • Greenfield, W., 1989. Developing new ventures. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers.
  • Hamel, G. & Prahalad, C.K., 1994. Competing for the future. Boston, MA: Harvard
  • Kuratko, D. & Hodgetts, R., 2001. Entrepreneurship: A contemporary approach, 5th Ed. Fort Worth: Harcourt College Publishers
  • Longenecker, J., Moore, C., & Petty, J.W., 2000. Small business management: Anentrepreneurial emphasis 11th edition, Cincinnati: South-Western Publishing Co.
  • Longworth, E. K., 1991. Anatomy of a start-up: Why some new businesses succeed and others fail. Boston, MA: Inc. Publishing.
  • Quinn, James Brian, 1992. Intelligent enterprise. New York: The Free Press.
  • Timmons, J., & Spinelli, S., 2007. New venture creation: Entrepreneurship for the 21stcentury, 7th ed. Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill/Irwin.
  • Tsoukas, Haridimos & Shepherd, Jill, 2004. Managing the future: Foresight in the knowledge economy. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
  • Turban, Efraim, Lee, J., King, D., & Chung, H.M., 2000. Electronic Commerce: A Managerial Perspective. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, Inc.
  • Yip, George S., 1992. Total Global Strategy: Managing for worldwide competitive advantage. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall.

Practitioner / Handbooks / Subject Specific*

  • Brinckerhoft, Peter C. (2000).Social entrepreneurship: The art of mission-based benture development. New York, NY: Wiley.
  • Desmond, G. & Marcello, J., 1987. Handbook of small business valuation formulas. Los Angeles, CA: Valuation Press.
  • Bagley, Constance & Dauchy, Craig E. (1998).The entrepreneur’s guide to business law. West Educational Publishing Co.
  • Foley, James F., 2000. The global entrepreneur: Taking your business international. Chicago, IL: Dearborn.
  • Gorton, K., 1989. Low Cost Marketing Research: A Guide for Small Businesses, 2nd ed. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
  • Kalakota, Ravi & Robinson, Marcia, 1999. E-Business: Roadmap for success, Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
  • Keup, Erwin J. (2004). Franchise bible, Madison, WI: CWL Publishing Enterprises, Inc.
  • Levinson, Jay C. (1998).Guerilla marketing: Secrets for making big profits from your small business. New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin Company.
  • Magus, Alice H. & Crow, Steve. (2004).Business plans that work. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
  • Timmons, J., Spinelli, S. & Zacharakis, A., (2005).How to raise capital: Techniques and strategies for financing and valuing your small business, New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
  • Urlacher, Lavern S. (2004).Small business entrepreneurship: An ethics and human relations perspective. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

General Books of interest*

  • Bankable Business Plans (2004) by Edward G. Rogoff with foreword by Jeff Bezos.
  • Being Digital (1996) by Nicholas Negroponte.
  • Blown to Bits: How the New Economics of Information Transforms Strategy (2000) by Philip Evans and Thomas S. Wurster
  • Bold Women, Big Ideas: Learning to Play the High Risk Entrepreneurial Game (2003) by Kay Koplovitz with Peter Israel.
  • Built to Last : Successful Habits of Visionary Companies(1994)by Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras.
  • Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Practices & Principles (1986) by Peter F. Drucker.
  • The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Companies to Fail (1997)by Clayton M. Christensen.
  • Lessons from the Edge (2003) by Jana Matthews and Jeff Dennis with Peter Economy.
  • Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money --That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! (2000) by Robert T. Kiyosaki and Sharon L. Lechter (Contributor).

*Search for book titles in CUB Cat to see if they are available in Bunch Library.

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Created by Dr. Mark T. Schenkel: Last updated January 26, 2007