The Library provides access to databases that contain e-books, e-journals, images, videos, etc. that can be used to supplement textbooks and other course materials. Please let your liaison librarian know if you will be using OER's in your classes.
You can use this link to search across repositories.
The links on this guide may change, if you discover a dead link, please let me know: dramsingh1@valenciacollege.edu
Introduction to Business covers the scope and sequence of most introductory business courses. The book provides detailed explanations in the context of core themes such as customer satisfaction, ethics, entrepreneurship, global business, and managing change. Introduction to Business includes hundreds of current business examples from a range of industries and geographic locations, which feature a variety of individuals. The outcome is a balanced approach to the theory and application of business concepts, with attention to the knowledge and skills necessary for student success in this course and beyond.
Business Ethics is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the single-semester business ethics course. This title includes innovative features designed to enhance student learning, including case studies, application scenarios, and links to video interviews with executives, all of which help instill in students a sense of ethical awareness and responsibility.
This book is designed for upper year undergraduate students and graduate students studying fundamental entrepreneurship concepts, awareness and responsibility.
Open Access Business Cases
BusinessEthics.ca: Case Studies dealing with Business Ethics in Canada
Workplace Health Case Studies: Canadian Government
A free, online service of The Aspen Institute’s Business and Society Program, which provides abstracts and publisher information for case studies that “pose social and environmental challenges within traditional business problems.” However, many of the cases listed are from the Harvard Business School and the European Case Clearing House, so are not free or open access beyond an abstract.
MIT Sloan Teaching Innovation Resources (MSTIR) is a collection of teaching materials, including case studies, industry notes, and management simulations, that MIT Sloan provides as a free teaching resource open and available to the world. Similar to the course syllabi and materials found on MIT’s OpenCourseWare site, these materials carry a creative commons license allowing them to be downloaded, copied, and distributed.
Some of the cases from the oikos online case collection are also available as free cases protected under the Creative Commons license. If you are a faculty member and you are interested in teaching these cases, you can request a free teaching note by sending us an email to freecase@oikosinternational.org.
Company-Specific Case Studies
Free Case Studies from Case Study Publishers
Free Cases from ecch: European Case Clearing house makes available a few cases for free.
Free Cases from the Stanford Graduate School of Business: Seventy-seven free electronically available cases from the Stanford Graduate School of Business from 1998-2012.
Open Access Case Study Journals
Journal of case research in business and economics Available from 2008
Journal of case studies in accreditation and assessment Available from 2008
Journal of Business Cases and Applications These articles can be handed out, posted to blackboard, linked to or course packed without copyright fees. Teaching Notes are available for most cases and are not password protected, except for Volume I (2007-2008). Since 2010 Teaching notes are included with cases
Journal of Information Systems Education Available 1989-present with a few missing issues. This can be handed out, posted to blackboard, linked to or course packed without copyright fees. Teaching Notes are available, but password protected.
Monopoly gas station is a simulation activity by Mark Maier from the Department of Economics at Glendale Community College. "Students predict the profit-maximizing price for gas at the one and only gas station in desert community. Then using data on demand and cost, they find the profit maximizing price and graph the result."
More simulations can be found here.