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Entrepreneurship
- Entrepreneurial Edge Magazine
- Locate news and trends, pointers from the pros, business builders, and resource
collection.
- Franchise Handbook Online
- Articles about franchising, a list of worldwide franchise associations, latest news
about the franchise industry, and links to other Web sources.
- Franchise Opportunities Guide(R) Online
- Search for franchise and supplier information. Basic information provided is the name, location, and phone number. When a link is provided, access the description, training, qualifications,
contact information, company details, startup cash required, and investment required. You will need
to register to access thsi site.
- Small Business Administration Online
- Access documents about starting, expanding, and financing a small business plus local SBA resources. Also access the Small Business, documents concerning regulatory fairness, and the year 2000 issues.
- Small Business Resource Center
- Find information on how to get started, marketing, management, financing, and other
information.
- Small Business School
- Locate information about entrepreneurship and small business owners.
- State of Small Business Profiles
- The Small Business State Profiles provide an excellent overview of the important role small businesses play
in each state. They include baseline statistics on each state's small business economy - number of firms,
small business income, industrial composition, job growth and detailed data on minority and women-owned.
1995-1997 documents are available for most states.
- Statistics on Small Business
- Locate general reports, documents dealing with financing and firm size data.
- U.S. Business Advisor
- Locate a wealth of small business data divided into five sections:
- Common Questions: answers to questions that business people frequently ask government;
- How-To: contains expert tools, step-by-step guides, and transactions;
- Search: helps you find on-line resources and regulations for topics of interest;
- Browse: locate data arranged under these topics: Doing Business with the Government, Finance, General Business, International Trade, Labor and Employment, plus Laws and Regulations;
- News: current news items including press releases.
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Journals and Scholarly Publications
- Harvard Business School Press
- Search for case studies (abstracts), course outlines, abstracts from the Harvard
Business review, and current offerings from HBR Press.
- Inter-University Consortium on Policy and Social Research (ICPSR)
- Access archival statistical data, recent developments, and information regarding governance and the ICPSR.
- Magazines and Journals Online
- Alphabetical list of links to online journals and magazines.
- MISQ Central
- Access the MISQ Quarterly for forthcoming paper titles, plus abstracts and tables of contents. Service provided in part by the Management Information Systems Research Center.
- Perspectives on Business Innovation
- "Perspectives on Business Innovation is a periodic journal of management theory and practice. Each issue focuses on a major business theme, explored in case studies, interviews, and new solution frameworks." Articles are available in both HTML and .PDF formats.
- Richard Ivey School of Business Cases and Publications
- Access case studies and abstracts. Registration is required.
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Labor - Management
- Dunlop Commission Final Report
- Officially referred to as the Commission of the Future of Worker Management Relations. Information made available through the web site at Cornell University's School of Industrial & Labor Relations.
- elaws--Employment Laws Assistance for Workers and Small Businesses
- Brought to you by the United States Department of Labor, the elaws Advisors are interactive tools that provide information about Federal employment laws. Each Advisor simulates an interaction between you and an employment law expert. It asks questions and
provides answers based on your responses. You may also browse by keyword and by topic.
- Foundation for Enterprise Development Net
- Locate the magazine Leading Companies and the Resource Library. The Resource Library contains company profiles and case studies, compensation stategies, employee motivation and empowerment, leadership, speeches and opinion articles, U.S. employee ownership
research and policy, international developments, and the Foundation for Enterprise Development Publications.
- Institute of Industrial Relations
- Locate data from the IIR's units including the Center for Labor Research and Education's Labor Center Reporter, abstracts from the journal Industrial relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, the Labor Project for Working
Families newsletter, the National Center for Working Families newsletter, and IIR working papers.
- U.S. Department of Labor
- Access information from various departments including the Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration.
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Organizations
- Institute of Management and Administration
- Management news, newsletters, and industry resources (e.g corporation finance, exports/imports, and human resources).
- Society for Human Resource Management
- Locate press releases, information about conferences and seminars, plus information about the Institute for International Human Relations.
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Production Operations
- International Organization for Standardization
- Access the catalog of all 150 ISO International Standards including drafts, complete lists of ISO members and technical committees, and the series of International Standards for quality management.
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