TMGMT 512 A: Business Ethics and Social Responsibility: Getting Started: Encyclopedias & Books

Encyclopedias are a great way to get general information, or the "lay of the land" when you are starting your research. Below are a list of recommended encylopedias available online.

Academic books are a great source for information. Often there are chapters that can be detailed about a specific event, company, or theory. There are also books that may explore a broader topic or theory in great depth.

Try a simple search: (By putting the terms in quotes, it forces the system to look for both words together.)

• "social responsibility"
• "corporate social responsibility"
• "business ethics"
• "people, profit, planet"
• "board governance"
• "social reporting"
• plus others such as sustainability, accountability, transparency, disclosure

Once you've run a search, use the "Refine My Results" options on the left side of the page.  It's a quick way to drill down to the most useful results without paging through a lot of items you're not really interested in.  Options often include limiting by:

• resource type (book article)
• library (UW Tacoma)
• creation date
• language
• topic
• peer reviews