Business Research Guide:Open Business Resources

Business Law, Ethics, and Sustainability is a textbook for undergraduate law courses. It covers business law topics such as contracts, business organizations, employment law, and torts, as well as a general survey of American law. Additional topics include Constitutional law, civil rights, environmental law, criminal law, and litigation.

This open textbook is a comprehensive guide covering the three fundamental topics in Corporate Finance, including Capital Budgeting under Certainty, Capital Structure Theory, and Short-term Financial Management and Operating Leverage. In-depth explanations of topics and terms are provided as well as key illustration in the manner of problem sets and solutions, tables, and diagrams. Review problems are also included so that students can conduct self-assessments. This text will be continually updated in order to provide novel information and enhance students’ experiences.

This book presents novel research results in the dynamics of values, rationality, and power in organizations. Through this understanding, readers will gain insights and frameworks to understand others' actions within their environment. Armed with the knowledge of how values, rationality, and power influence people's actions, readers will gain tools they can use to navigate the complexity of organizations to foster wise action.

Electronic commerce (e-commerce) and electronic business (e-business) are vital to business. E-commerce is one of the core courses in the management information systems (MIS) curriculum. It explains the business practices in the information technology era. The course also introduces the tools that can be applied to e-commerce project development. Information technology has become a commodity, and the e-commerce course has become a widely accepted business elective course forall business majors.The objective of this textbook is to help business students understand the concept of e-commerce and e-business and develop practical skills of e-commerce project development. Upon completion of the course, students will understand e-commerce and e-business, and be able to develop an e-commerce project. This resource was supported by funding from the OER Creator Program at UMass Dartmouth.

Fundamentals of Business, fourth edition (2023) is an 434-page open education resource intended to serve as a no-cost, faculty-customizable primary text for one-semester undergraduate introductory business courses. It covers the following topics in business: Teamwork; economics; ethics; entrepreneurship; business ownership, management, and leadership; organizational structures and operations management; human resources and motivating employees; managing in labor union contexts; marketing and pricing strategy; hospitality and tourism, accounting and finance, personal finances, and technology in business. The textbook was designed for use in Virginia Tech’s Pamplin College of Business introductory level business course, MGT1104 Foundations of Business and is shared under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial ShareAlike 4.0 license.

Introduction to Marketing teaches the experience and process of actually doing marketing - not just the vocabulary. It carries five dominant themes throughout in order to expose students to marketing in today's environment: Service dominant logic, sustainability, ethics and social responsibility, global coverage, and metrics.

Strategic Management (2020) is a 343-page open educational resource designed as an introduction to the key topics and themes of strategic management. The open textbook is intended for a senior capstone course in an undergraduate business program and suitable for a wide range of undergraduate business students including those majoring in marketing, management, business administration, accounting, finance, real estate, business information technology, and hospitality and tourism. The text presents examples of familiar companies and personalities to illustrate the different strategies used by today’s firms and how they go about implementing those strategies. It includes case studies, end of section key takeaways, exercises, and links to external videos, and an end-of-book glossary. The text is ideal for courses which focus on how organizations operate at the strategic level to be successful. Students will learn how to conduct case analyses, measure organizational performance, and conduct external and internal analyses.

The Strategic Management test bank includes 782 peer-reviewed, multiple-choice questions which correspond to topics taught in undergraduate, capstone-level business open textbook, Strategic Management (2020), freely available (CC BY-NC-SA) at http://hdl.handle.net/10919/99282. Between 48-98 multiple-choice items are available for each chapter and cover: mastering strategy, assessing organizational performance, evaluating the external environment, evaluating the internal environment, synthesis of strategic issues and analysis, selecting business-level strategies, innovation strategies, selecting corporate-level strategies, completing in international markets, executing strategy through organizational design, and leading an ethical organization. Question items are also identified by subsection (e.g. 1.1, 1.2, etc.) of Strategic Management.

The test bank includes 377 peer-reviewed, multiple-choice questions which correspond to topics taught in introductory-level business open textbook, Fundamentals of Business (2018) and (2020) which are freely available. Between 11-29 multiple-choice items are available for each of the following topics: Teamwork in Business, Foundations of Business, Economics and Business, Ethics and Social Responsibility, Business in a Global Environment, Forms of Business Ownership, Entrepreneurship: Starting a Business, Management and Leadership, Structuring Organizations, Operations Management, Motivating Employees, Managing Human Resources, Union/Management Issues, Marketing: Providing Value to Customers, Pricing Strategy, Hospitality and Tourism, Accounting and Financial Information, and Personal Finances.