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This guide is designed to help you get started with your Business research. Find books, journal articles, and additional resources such as marketing information and company financial data available to you at SFU Library.
Contact info
Mark Bodnar
Business Librarian
SFU Burnaby & Surrey Campuses
mbodnar@sfu.ca
778-782-3044
Moninder Lalli
Business Librarian
SFU Vancouver Campus
moninder_lalli@sfu.ca
778-782-4264
New business books
- Dynamic decisions : energy PIVOT, Adaptive Moves, Winning BOUnCE /
- Virtual EI /
- A primer on critical thinking and business ethics : recent conceptualizations of critical thinking.
- The most common entrepreneurial mistakes and how to avoid them /
- The equality machine : harnessing digital technology for a brighter, more inclusive future /
- Negotiating with agility : a manager's guide to better labor agreements /
- Experiential activities for intercultural learning /
- Think bigger : how to innovate /
- The new megatrends : seeing clearly in the age of disruption /
- How finance works : the HBR guide to thinking smart about the numbers /
- Good habits /
- Unsustainable : Amazon, warehousing, and the politics of exploitation /
- Lecture notes in risk management /
- HBR guide to critical thinking /
- Doing well and doing good : human-centered digital transformation leadership /
- Honest answers : interview and negotiation skills to get to the truth /
- Disruptive technologies in international business : challenges and opportunities for emerging markets /
- Introduction to Research in Leadership /
- Women's empowerment within the tourism industry /
- The business models handbook : the tools, techniques and frameworks every business professional needs to succeed /
- The China Business Casebook /
- Socio-economic approach to management treatise theory and practices /
- Power at work : a global perspective on control and resistance /
- Blockchain Babel : the crypto craze and the challenge to business /
- Financial statement analysis workbook : a practitioner's guide /
- AI enabled business : a smart decision kit /
Research guides by topic/format
View additional resources for specialized Business research guides by format/ topic, including how to find: annual reports, case studies, financial data, market research, and much more!
Help with course assignments
For help with course assignments and business research, start with these course-specific guides, as well as our topic/format research guides.
200 level
- Business 200 & 201: Assignment Tips (updated October 2021)
- BUS 216: Essentials of Business Writing (updated December 2021)
- BUS 217W: Critical Thinking in Business (updated June 2022)
- BUS 272: Behaviour in Organizations (updated Fall 2023)
300 level
- BUS 320: Financial Accounting: Assets (updated August 2023)
- BUS 322: Intermediate Managerial Accounting (updated January 2023)
- BUS 338: Foundations of Innovation (updated February 2023)
- BUS 341: Fundamentals of Marketing
- BUS 343: Introduction to Marketing (updated Fall 2023)
- General guide to secondary market research resources
- Video: Secondary Research for Business Decisions: Foundations for Estimates
- Video: Actions vs Words: Understanding a Company's Strategies Using News Sources
- Handout - Spring 2023
- Company information research guide
- Industry surveys research guide
- Resources to help with:
- BUS 345: Marketing Research (updated Fall 2023)
- D100: Blog post: Ingredients for successful taste tests + other primary market research
- D200: Blog post: On meal kits and primary market research
- BUS 347: Consumer Behaviour (updated May 2023)
- BUS 360W: Business Communication (updated Fall 2023)
- BUS 381: Intro. to Human Resource Management (updated Summer 2020)
- BUS 393: Commercial Law: Use the Commercial Law guide
400 level
- BUS 421: Accounting Theory (updated November 2022)
- BUS 430: Cross-Cultural Management (updated March 2022)
- BUS 431: Business with East Asian Countries (updated May 2022)
- BUS 432: International Human Resource Management (updated December 2021)
- BUS 447: Global Marketing Management (updated January 2020)
- General resources: International Market Research web guide.
- PowerPoint
- BUS 478: Strategy (December 2022)
500 level
- BUS 510: Financial Accounting / Managerial Accounting (formerly BUS 550/551) (updated Aug 2019)
- BUS 561: Business Communication (updated Aug 2019)
600 level
- BUS 615 Marketing (Sept 2021)
700-800 level
- BUS 708: Financial Management: Handout - Word & Fillable PDF
- BUS 741: Business and BC's Indigenous Communities
- BUS 754: Marketing Tech-based Products and Services (Vancouver)
- BUS 764: Financing the Organization: Handout - Word & Fillable PDF
- BUS 784: Industry Consulting Project (Vancouver)
- BUS 791: Opportunity Identification & Assessment (Vancouver)
- BUS 825 Financial Statement Analysis (Vancouver)
- Handout (Summer 2019)
- Ratio Analysis
Master's programs
- Library Guide for Graduate Business Programs (updated 2022 Feb)
- Library guide for Executive MBA Americas (NEW, 2022 Aug)
- Library Guide for Executive MBA in Indigenous Business Leadership (IBL Library Guide - updated 2022 Oct)
- IBL-EMBA Library Orientation (Fall 2022)
- Library Workshop IBL-EMBA (Spring 2022)
- Library Workshop IBL-EMBA (Fall 2022)
- Belzberg Library Information for Graduate Business Programs
PhD program
- PhD Orientation (link to Prezi) September 2017
Other
- Radius - Slingshot
- Presentation (Spring 2019)
- Presentation (Spring 2019)
- Student Marketing Association Workshop (Spring 2018)
- Venture Connection Workshop (Fall 2021)