BU Libraries Business Blog
October 25, 2005
EBSCO Business Source Premier Trial
EBSCO is offering a free trial of their databases, including Business Source Premier. Go here to start the trial. The database is only available on campus. For a list of titles available in Business Source Premier, click here. Business Source Premier has extensive full-text coverage of business journals and industry reports. The trial lasts until December 23. Please let us know what you think.
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October 12, 2005
Welcome to the BU Libraries' Business Blog
I am pleased to announce that I am now maintaining and updating a BU Libraries business blog for Binghamton University’s Management and Economics faculty and students. This blog will provide information on library announcements as well as news related to business and scholarly communication.
Please visit the site regularly for updates or subscribe to our RSS feed.
---Colleen Hailey
Management and Economics Bibliographer
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October 11, 2005
New Management and Economics Books
Looking for something interesting to read? Here are just a few examples of some Management/Economics materials recently purchased. If you would like to see more of our new books, check out the Bartle Library's New Book shelf, which is located to the left of the Circulation Desk.
Fat-Tailed and Skewed Asset Return Distributions : Implications for Risk Management, Portfolio Selection, and Option Pricing
Svetlozar T. Rachev, Frank J. Fabozzi, and Christian Menn
Wiley
Main Library Stacks HG4529.5 .R335 2005 -- REGULAR LOAN
From publisher: While mainstream financial theories and applications assume that asset returns are normally distributed, overwhelming empirical evidence shows otherwise. Yet many professionals don’t appreciate the highly statistical models that take this empirical evidence into consideration.
Non-Business Actors in a Business Network : A Comparative Case on Firms' actions in Developing and Developed Countries
Amjad Hadjikhani, Peter Thilenius
Elsevier Science
Main Library Stacks HD69.S8 H33 2005
From publisher: The book is an outcome of several years of research on MNCs market activities in developing and industrialized countries. Different from the earlier studies this book addresses how interactions not only with business partners, but also with the vast variety of governmental and legislative organizations, affect local firms and MNCs businesses.
Capitalism, Democracy, and Welfare
Torben Iversen, et al
Cambridge University Press
Main Library Stacks HB99.3 .I94 2005
From publisher: Offers a comprehensive political economy approach to the study of the welfare state and inequality.
Engaged Knowledge Management : Engagement with New Realities
Kevin C. Desouza, Yukika Awazu
Palgrave Macmillan
Main Library Stacks HD30.2 .D468 2005
From publisher: The authors contend that current knowledge management efforts in organizations need to be refocused so that they can be better poised for success. Topics discussed include: missing capabilities of knowledge management, knowledge management in strategic alliances, customer knowledge management, knowledge markets, and knowledge management systems, among others.
Technology and Offshore Outsourcing Strategies
Peter Brudenall
Palgrave Macmillan
Main Library Stacks HD30.2 .T427 2005
From publisher: Bringing together leaders in strategic thinking within the outsourcing community, the book addresses the issues and strategies underpinning outsourcing as a business model, and the elements that lead to a successful outsourcing arrangement.
The Corporation (DVD)
Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott
Zeitgeist Video
Main Library Circulation Desk (DVD) -- HD2731 .C67 2005
From publisher:In this acclaimed documentary from the co-director of MANUFACTURING CONSENT: Noam Chomksy and the Media, 40 corporate insiders and critics—including Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, NO LOGO author Naomi Klein and Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman—explore the nature and spectacular rise of the most pervasive institution of our time. Combining analysis with footage from advertising, television news and industrial films, THE CORPORATION is an entertaining and provocative look at the inner workings, curious history, controversial impacts and possible futures of the modern global conglomerate.
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October 05, 2005
Online and Data Services Staffing
Michael Shi, a graduate student in the Economics department, has been hired to assist students and faculty with their data inquiries for library data products. The Online and Data Services Office is now located in the Government Documents Room. Michael's hours are as follows: Monday & Wednesdays, 9:30-12;30 & 1:00-5:30, Tuesdays & Thursdays, 2:00-4:00.
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Course Web Pages
Did you know that some business courses have library web pages? These pages are designed to highlight useful library databases and internet sites. Pages are available for ACCT 520, CQS 112, ECON 498/594, IBUS 211 and MGMT 411. They can be found here.
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Publications by BU Researchers
January through September 2005--Economics Department (selected)
Henderson, Daniel J. and Daniel L. Millimet. "Environmental Regulation and U.S. State Level Production." Economics Letters 87.1 (2005):47-53.
Jones, Barry E., Dutkowsky, Donald H. and Thomas Elger. "Sweep Programs and Optimal Monetary Aggregation." Journal of Banking and Finance 29 (2005):483-508.
Panayides, Alexandros and Clifford R. Kern. "Information technology and the future of cities: an alternative analysis." Urban Studies 42.1 (2005):263-267.
Kumbhakar, Subal C. and Efthymios G. Tsionas. "Measuring technical and allocative inefficiency in the translog cost system: a Bayesian approach." Journal of Econometrics 126 (2005):355-384.
Kumbhakar, Subal C. and Ana Lozano-Vivas. "Deregulation and Productivity: The Case of Spanish Banks." Journal of Regulatory Economics 27 (2005):331-351.
Lai, Yu-Cheng and Stanley Masters. "The Effects of Mandatory Maternity and Pregnancy Benefits on Women's Wages and Employment in Taiwan, 1984-1996." Industrial and Labor Relations Review
58 (2005):274-281.
Yoon, Bong Joon. "Labor Militancy in South Korea." Asian Economic Journal 19 (2005):205-230.
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Publications by BU Researchers
January through September 2005--School of Management (selected)
Agnihothri, S. and S. Chakravarthy. “Optimal Workforce Mix in Service Systems with Two Types of Customers.”, Production and Operations Management14.2(2005):218-231.
Braiotta, Louis Jr. "An Overview of the EU 8th Directive." The Internal Auditor 62.2(2005):62-65.
Chatterji, Manas and Partha Gangopadhyay, eds. Economic Globalization in Asia. Burlington: Ashgate, 2005.
Dionne, Shelley D., Yammarino, Francis J., Howell, Jon P., and Jennifer Villa. "Substitutes for Leadership, or not." Leadership Quarterly. 16.1 (2005):169-193.
Sosik, John J., et al. "Making All the Right Connections: The Strategic Leadership of Top Executives in High-Tech Organizations." Organizational Dynamics.34.1 (2005):47-61.
Ryu, C., Kim, Yong Jin, Chaudhury, A. and Rao, H.R. "Knowledge Acquisition via Three Learning Processes in the Enterprise Information Portals: Leaning-by-Investment, Learning-by-Doing, and Learning-from-Others." MIS Quarterly 29.2 (2005):245-278.
Kim, Yong Jin, Kishore, R., and Sanders, G.L., "From DQ to EQ: Understanding Data Quality in the Context of E-Business Systems.", Communications of the ACM. (2005).
Garrity, E.J., Glassberg, B., Kim, Yong Jin, Sanders, G.L., and Shin, S.K. "An Experimental Investigation of Electronic Commerce Success Factors for Web-based Information Systems." Decision Support Systems 39 (2005):485-503.
Nikias, Anthony D, Schwartz, Steven T. and Richard A Young. "A Note on the Roles of Aggregation and Delay in Management Control."
Issues in Accounting Education. 20.3 (2005): 273-294.
Keloharju, Matti, Nyborg, Kjell G. and Kristian Rydqvist. "Strategic Behavior and Underpricing in Uniform Price Auctions: Evidence from Finnish Treasury Auctions." The Journal of Finance. 60 (2005):1865-1902.
Busch, Joseph R., O'Brien, Thomas P. and William D. Spangler. "Increasing the Quantity and Quality of School Leadership Candidates Through Formation Experiences." Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies. 11.3 (2005): 95-108.
Zhu, Weichun, Chew, Irene K.H. and William D. Spangler. "CEO transformational leadership and organizational outcomes: The mediating role of human-capital-enhancing human resource management."
Leadership Quarterly 16.1 (2005):39-52.
Lobo, Gerald J. and Jian Zhou. "To swear early or not to swear early? An empirical investigation of factors affecting CEOs' decisions."
Journal of Accounting and Public Policy. 24.2 (2005):153-160.
Chen, Ken Y., Lin, Kuen-Lin and Jian Zhou. "Audit quality and earnings management for Taiwan IPO firms."Managerial Auditing Journal.20.1 (2005):86-105.
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