Research guide to business resources | ZHAW University Library

Be efficient in your research and use the various databases, reference works and additional literature in the field of management and economics.

Databases

Reference works

Bachelor's and master's theses

Databases

Name	Content	Guide
ABI/Inform	Subjects: Business, management, business administration, marketing Coverage: International, English Content: Journal articles, market studies, company information, business cases, dissertations, conference papers Special feature: Comprehensive for business studies	ProQuest Guide
Business Source Premier	Subjects: Business, management, business administration, accounting, marketing Coverage: International, multilingual Content: Journal articles, market studies, company information, business cases, conference papers Special feature: Comprehensive for business studies	Guides
EconLit	Subjects: Economics Coverage: International, English Content: Journal articles, dissertations	-
WISO	Subjects: Business, economics, social sciences, social work, social pedagogy, politics and international relations Coverage: Germany, Switzerland, Austria, German Content: Journal articles, other publications, some only abstracts Special feature: Focus on practice-relevant topics	Guide
WEKA Online Products	Subjects: Business, management Coverage: Germany, Switzerland, Austria, German Content: Specialist articles, guidelines, templates, working aids	-
Gartner	Subjects: Computer science, technology, business Coverage: International, English Content: Market analyses, reports, forecasts The database is not licensed for continuing education students.	-
Orbis without login with login	Subjects: Company information Coverage: International, multilingual Content: Analyses, industry reports, statistics, financial reports, company profiles To save your own search and filter settings, create an individual account with the following login details: Username: ZFH-register, Password: bvdregister	Guide
Passport	Subjects: Business, market and industry analysis Coverage: International: licensed reports for Europe (Western & Eastern) and Asia; multilingual Content: Country data, consumer data, data on market volume and market size, forecasts, statistics Special feature: Market research database from Euromonitor International First enter ZHAW as the organisation and then log in with SWITCH edu-ID.	-
OECD	Subjects: Business, politics, social sciences Coverage: OECD countries, multilingual Content: Reports, statistics, studies Special feature: Official data collection from the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) and other institutions such as the International Energy Agency (IEA) and the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)	-

Open access portals

Search for scientific publications that are freely available worldwide, also known as open access publications.

Reference works

Reference works are the ideal starting point for your research. In addition to defining concepts, they help you to gain an overview of a topic, narrow down a topic and find key concepts for future work.

All electronic reference works can be found and searched in the e-media portal. The selection of titles below provides you with a quick introduction to your specialist area. General reference works can also be found with the monolingual (in German) and multilingual dictionaries (in German).

Title	Additional information
A Dictionary of Business and Management	There are further reference works from Oxford on the topic of business and management.
Gabler Wirtschaftslexikon Online	-
Handbook of Human Resources Management	There are further reference works from Oxford on the topic of business and management.
Praxishandbuch BPMN	-
The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online	-
Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Consumption and Consumer Studies	-
Wiley Encyclopedia of Management	-

Bachelor's and master's theses

Selected theses from the School of Management and Law are available in the ZHAW digitalcollection.