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Foster Business Library Databases:

    The Foster Business Library offers an extensive collection of over fifty databases on its homepage; see under Databases. For a complete list of Foster databases, see the List of All Business Databases. Access to these databases from off campus requires that you first go to the Off-Campus Access button, in the upper right of all library webpages. These resources may not be accessed from off campus except by those with a valid UW Net ID and password. For more information on Foster business databases, click Databases, A-Z. For information on which Foster business databases to use, see the Database Index. For information on accessing Foster databases from off campus, see Database Access. For guidelines on responsible database usage, see Database Usage.

  • Conference Board Business Knowledge Research:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, under List of All Business Databases, at the bottom of the list of Business Databases. This searchable database of full-text research reports, published by the Conference Board, is focused on major issues in business and economics. For a 37-page PDF cumulative index to this database, click here.

    See their 21 reports on the topic Ethics & Compliance.

  • Gale Virtual Reference Library:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under List of All Business Databases.   The Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research; go to Business for three major business sources:   the Encyclopedia of American Industries (4th ed., 2005), the Encyclopedia of Business and Finance (2001), and the Encyclopedia of Small Business (2nd ed., 2002).

    See Business Ethics, in the Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics.

  • Social Sciences Citation Index:   Included in the folder Articles--Citations & Abstracts Under Business Databases on the Foster Business Library homepage. This database "is a multidisciplinary index, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the social sciences. It indexes more than 1,725 journals spanning 50 disciplines, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals. It "provides access to current information and retrospective data from 1956 forward."

    A search in this database for Business Ethics produced over 1,100 references, from a wide variety of sources.

  • JSTOR:   This database may be found under Electronic Journals, which may be found by going to Reference Tools in the left menu, under Find It. JSTOR is a subject searchable index of 360 journals, with full-text backfiles of scholarly journals, some of which date back to the 1800's. Among the collections of scholarly journals on this site are ones for Business and for Economics, encompassing over seventy journals.

    A search for Business Ethics produced over 38,000 articles.

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Foster Business Library Reference Collection:

    The Foster Business Library Reference Collection consists of business handbooks, encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other quick reference tools. It is located behind the Reference Desk in Foster, arranged by call number. Reference materials cannot be checked out; they may only be used in the library.

  • The Blackwell encyclopedic dictionary of business ethics.
    Arranged alphabetically by topic from Accounting Ethics to Worker Safety, with an extensive index at the back of this 700-page book. Each of about 300 topics in business ethics is explained in a page or two, with a bibliography at the end of every topic. Interestingly, this volume in the twelve-volume Blackwell encyclopedia of management is the thickest.
    Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD30.15 .B455 1995, v. 11.

  • The encyclopedia of management.
    This one-volume covers 348 management topics, arranged alphabetically from Activity-Based Costing to Zero-Sum Game. See the five-page essay on Ethics in business, starting on page 281.
    Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD30.15 .E49 2000.

  • The AMA management handbook.
    This thick one-volume handbook comprises 16 sections on important areas of management, written by expert practitioners. See Managing ethics in the corporation, section one, pages 1-32 to 1-35.
    Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD31 .A418 1994.

  • Business: the ultimate resource.
    This 2,200-page single volume is "designed to offer a wide range of insights, information, and practical guidance on every aspect of management" via 2.5 million words of text from 200 contributors, with 700 illustrations and 150 maps, in seven major sections including best practice, a management library, business thinkers and management giants, a business dictionary, a world business almanac, and a guide to business sources. See Business ethics, starting on page 231.
    Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD38.15 .B878 2002.

  • Business ethics: a reference handbook.
    Over 400 pages of information about business ethics and their application to consumers, advertising, corporations, employees, the environment; also includes information about codes of ethics, a business ethics glossary, and relevant cases, statutes and agencies.
    Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HF5387 .D54 1998
    (also in Foster Business General Stacks, CALL NUMBER: HF5387 .D54 1998)

  • Encyclopedia of business ethics and society.
    This five-volume reference work includes 900 essays by scholars, arranged alphabetically by topic, on all aspects of business ethics.
    Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HF5387 .E53 2008.

  • Eighty exemplary ethics statements.
    This small paperback provides ethics statements for 80 corporations including such companies as Boeing, Hewlett Packard, Starbucks and Tom's of Maine. Appendices at the end of the volume provide indexes to values statements, codes of ethics, a values index, and an index by industry.
    Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HF5387 .M876 1998.

  • Human resources management and development handbook.
    This oversized 1,400-page handbook covers all aspects of human resources and is aimed at human resources managers and practitioners, with long essays on each topic and references for further reading. See Ethics training, pages 977 to 985.
    Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HF5549.5 .M3 .H85 1994.

  • A financial history of modern U.S. corporate scandals: from Enron to reform.
    This major reference work covers the stock market bubble and Enron, full disclosure and accountants, corporate governance, and recovery and reform.
    Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HV6769 .M37 2006.

  • Global corruption report.
    This annual publication, published by Transparency International, usually focuses, each year, on a theme, such as corruption and health in the 2006 issue, with reports on this issue in many countries in part one. Part two consists of country reports from nations with corruption problems, with over forty countries included in the 2006 issue (including the U.S.).
    Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: JF1081 .G56 2006.

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Foster Business Library Periodical Articles:

    In addition to the 800 journals in the Foster Business Library Periodicals Collection, the Foster Business Library offers access to over 100 million full text articles in over 10,000 periodicals through its full text article databases such as EBSCO Business Source Premier, Factiva, LexisNexis Academic, and ProQuest Databases. These article databases may be found on the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under Databases.

    All four of these databases are available from any computer on the campus network as well as from home (via the UW Connectivity Kit or the Libraries' Off-Campus Access link, using your UW Net ID and password). The easiest of these databases to use is ProQuest Databases. For more information about accessing Foster Business Library databases from off campus, see Database Access. For more information about business databases, see the research guide entitled Databases, A to Z.

  • ProQuest Databases:

    This database--actually, a family of over two dozen databases--offers full text articles for over 10,000 publications, including scholarly journals, magazines, trade and industry periodicals, newspapers, and reports on a very wide range of topics. To find articles on specific topics, search by word or phrase by keying your search phrase into the search box--or search for your topic in the Topic Guide. Article full text is often available in several formats, including text, text plus graphics, and PDF. This database also offers a very useful subject structure, to narrow search results, as well as article citation information.

    Your search terms will be highlighted in red in each article. For tips on searching this database, see About ProQuest Databases.

    This database includes among its publications Business and Professional Ethics Journal (citations and abstracts only), Business Ethics Quarterly (citations and abstracts only) and the Journal of Business Ethics (full text and page image), along with a number of other ethics journals in criminal justice, law, medicine and religion. This database includes a total of 167 publications with Business Ethics in the title. Many other journals, of course, offer articles about business ethics.

    As an example, a search in this database for Ford and Firestone produced a list of 3,300 articles, searching in all databases.

    Using Topic Guide, it's also possible to search in this database by such subjects as Business Ethics (over 12,000 articles), Professional Ethics (also over 12,000 articles), and Conflicts of Interest (over 16,000 articles). These subject terms are also associated with narrowing terms; for instance, for Business Ethics, there are over 100 narrowing terms, from Accounting Procedures to White Collar Crime.

    Examples of pertinent articles:

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26 September 2000; updated 30 April 2008.   Peter Stevens, Business Librarian, stevens@u.washington.edu