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.
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
Looking for a full open online course or Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs), try the following links:
Academic Earth - Find open online courses and video electives
Canvas Network - Find open online courses
Class Central - MOOC list generator
Coursera - Find MOOCs
EdX - Find open online courses
MOOC-list - Find many MOOCs from multiple sources
OEDB - Find open online courses
Open Learning Initiative - Find open online courses, studying hints, and teach open courses
Open Yale Courses - Open online courses available at Yale University
OpenCourseWare - Find open online courses, lectures, and supplemental resources
Saylor University - Find open online courses
Open Access Business Cases
Acadia Institute of Case Studies (Acadia University)
The Institute’s focus is on entrepreneurship and small business operations.”
Business Roundtable: Institute for Corporate Ethics: Case Studies
Institute Case Studies ground business ethics education in real-world examples. Case materials are available free-of-charge for educational use by faculty, ethics officers, students and individuals. Teaching notes and other teaching documents will be made available upon request to faculty or corporate trainers only upon verification. Please include your your name, title, organization, email and phone information in your request (organizational Web pages where you are listed are recommended, but not required).
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.
Export Development Canada EDC Case Studies:
We also collaborate with Canadian universities to develop international business case studies that focus on Canadian exporters. These cases may be used for material for teaching in business faculties, to build recognition for university program specializations, or for entry into business-case competitions.
Access is limited to professors, so students are asked to discuss with their professor. Professors are asked to email to community@edc.ca indicating which of the cases below you are requesting, as well as a brief description of the course and level in which you intend on using these teaching materials.
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.
Ryerson University Business Case Studies
Looks at the impact of various economic policies on three different groups: People, Business and Government.
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. eechhas categorized these by topic here.
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. Please see teaching note policy here and the process to get the notes sent to you: http://jise.org/Notes.htm