Foster Business Library Databases:

The Foster Business Library offers an extensive collection of business databases on its homepage; see under Business Databases; see also the five folders at the top of that list for lists of Foster databases by topic:  Books; Articles—-Full Text; Articles--Citations and Abstracts; Company and Industry; and International/Country Information.   For more information on the three dozen Foster business databases, click here.   For more information about which of the three dozen Foster business databases to use, click here.   For more information on accessing Foster databases from off campus, click here. For answers to some frequently-asked questions about connecting to UW library databases from off-campus, click here. And, finally, see the UW Libraries' Database Usage Guidelines.
• 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 the interview with Henry Mintzberg in their periodical Across the Board, entitled Managerial Correctness in the July—August 2004 issue.

  Dissertation Abstracts:   Available under Business Databases on the Foster Business Library homepage. This database provides indexing and abstracts for doctoral dissertations and masters theses from over 1,000 Universities and Colleges in the U.S. from 1861 to the present. The citations to dissertations are long and 24-page previews of the dissertations are available online for free.

  A search in this database for the author Mintzberg produced a Citation for Henry Mintzberg's 1968 MIT PhD dissertation. A keyword search for Mintzberg produced 20 citations, mostly about management or strategic planning.

• 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."

  An author search in this database for Mintzberg H* produced over 75 references; a cited author search Mintzberg H*, over 50 pages of references; a topic search for Mintzberg, over 100 references.

• 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 72 journals.

  An author search, in Business journals, for Mintzberg, produced a list of 16 articles; a search in abstracts for Mintzberg, 11 articles.

Web Resources:

Unlike library databases, these online resources are available wherever you have web access; they do not require that you access them via the UW Connectivity Kit or the UW Libraries Proxy Server for authentication. For links to business websites by topic, see Business Resources on the Web on the Foster Business Library homepage. Good sources for business topics include trade associations (which often provide industry data unavailable elsewhere) and government regulatory and oversight agencies (which are also a good source for industry data). When using web resources, be sure to evaluate the credibility of these resources.
• Henry Mintzberg:   Like many faculty, Mintzberg has a website with links to recent papers, interviews, talks, programs with which he is associated, etc.

• International Master's in Practicing Management:   This program was founded by Mintzberg, to carry out management education as he feels it should be done. See their Innovations and Research Papers.

• Henry Mintzberg:   The Business Library at the University of Western Ontario offers this excellent guide to fellow Canadian, Henry Mintzberg, with books by Mintzberg, selected articles by him, and articles about him. Access to the full text articles is limited to the University of Western Ontario community but most should be available, via separate searches, to UW faculty and students.

• Google:   A Google search for "Henry Mintzberg" produced about 20,000 websites.

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 the center of the library's first floor. The reference works listed below are arranged according to call number and, since none of these books circulate, they should always be available--except when in use by a library user.
• The Blackwell encyclopedic dictionary of organizational behavior.
  This one-volume offers 500 essays (500 to 1,000 words in length) from 180 authorities on current knowledge and thinking about the key concepts of organizational behavior.
  Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD30.15 .B455 1995 v. 6

  See Henry Mintzberg, in Structuring Organizations, on pages 257 to 259.

• The encyclopedia of management.
  This one-volume covers 348 management topics, arranged alphabetically from Activity-Based Costing to Zero-Sum Game.
  Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD30.15 .E49 2000.

  See Henry Mintzberg on pages 334 and 580.

• The manager's book of quotations.
  This American Management Association volume is arranged in 47 topical chapters, from Accounting & Budgeting to Training, offering 5,000 notable quotations on these topics.
  Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD38 .M31875 1989.

  See Henry Mintzberg on pages 2, 10, 18, 22, 31, 37, 43, and 47.

• 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.
  Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD38.15 .B878 2002.

  See Henry Mintzberg on pages 241 to 242 (Viewpoint: Taking Management on a Strategy Safari), page 932 (on his book, the Nature of Managerial Work), page 949 (on his book, the Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning), and pages 1024 to 1025 (a profile of Mintzberg, among Business Thinkers, as the Great Generalist).

• The IEBM handbook of management thinking.
  This handbook, part of the International Encyclopedia of Business and Management series, provides five to six-page profiles, in an A to Z arrangement, of more than 130 major thinkers in management, from Sun Tzu to fairly modern times, with recommendations for further reading.
  Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD38.15 .I33 1998.

  See Henry Mintzberg on pages 466 to 469.

• The encyclopedia of leadership.
  This four-volume encyclopedia is not restricted to business leadership; it covers leadership in a wide range of endeavors, including history, psychology, anthropology and law, with four hundred entries by experts from seventeen countries, on leadership theories, practice, and effects.
  Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD57.7 .E53 2004.

  See Henry Mintzberg on pages 1497 to 1498, in volume four, on the topic of Strategic Leadership.

• The encyclopedia of leadership.
  The subtitle of this one-volume encyclopedia is "a practical guide to popular leadership theories and techniques." It is aimed at "leaders, consultants, and trainers in all industries and organizations, at all levels of experience." On pages xxvi and xxvii, they provide a leadership tool finder, matching leadership resources to specific needs. This encyclopedia covers leadership concepts and tools in over 450 pages of detail, with worksheets, exercises, suggestions for further reading, and an index.
  Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD57.7 .H525 2001.

  See Henry Mintzberg on pages 69 and 70, and on page 291.

• The IEBM handbook of organizational behavior.
  This one-volume work covers a large variety of topics in organizational behavior, arranged alphabetically by topic, with essays ten to twelve pages long.
  Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD58.7 .I35 1997.

  See Henry Mintzberg on pages 661 to 664, with many more references to him on index page 736.

• The international encyclopedia of business and management.
  This seven-volume set (plus an index volume) consists of 750 essays on a wide variety of topics, arranged alphabetically, from Accounting to Zimbabwe, Management In.
  Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HF1001 .I53 2002.

  See Henry Mintzberg on pages 4500 to 4503, in volume five, with many more references to him on index page 7078.

• The big book of business quotations.
  This paperback provides over 5,000 "indispensable observations on commerce, work finance and management" on 150 subjects from over 1,500 authors.
  Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: PN6084 .B87 .B54 2003.

  See Henry Mintzberg on pages 19, 23, 36 and 37, 38 to 41, 46, 48 to 50, 89 and 90, 98 and 99.

• Money talks.
  Subtitled as "the 2500 greatest business quotes from Aristotle to DeLorean."
  Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: PN6084 .B87 .M58 1985.

  See Henry Mintzberg on page 218.

• The Wiley book of Business quotations.
  This compilation is arranged alphabetically, in 44 sections, on topics from Advertising and Marketing to Work, and divided into subsections. There are also extensive indexes.
  Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: PN6084 .B87 .W55 1998.

  See Henry Mintzberg on page 315.

This collection is located on the south side of the library, through the two pass-throughs to the Balmer basement. The arrangement is by call number, from A (at the east end, near the Copy Center) to Z (at the far west end).

The Foster Business Library General Stacks collection contains 70,000 business-related books. These books may be found by searching the UW Libraries Catalog. The UW Libraries Catalog may be found on the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under Business Databases or at the top of the left menu under FIND IT).

Look under Keywords for the company of your choice; limit by library Location to the Foster Business Library when doing a B>Keyword search for business topics. For help in searching the UW Libraries Catalog, click HELP.

Circulation status is indicated in the box in the middle of each online catalog record, on the right. Check Shelf indicates that the book should be on the shelves under that call number and available for you to check out. Due and a date indicates that the book is already checked out to someone and is due back on the date indicated. Books that are already checked out to someone else, or books at the Bothell or Tacoma campus libraries (or elsewhere on the Seattle campus) may be reserved for your use and sent here to Foster by using the Request button on the upper menu. Books unavailable in any of the University of Washington Libraries may be available in the collections of Central Washington University, Eastern Washington University, The Evergreen State College, Washington State University, or Western Washington University (among 27 colleges and universities in Washington and Oregon) through the Cascade online catalog. To search Cascade's online catalog, called Summit, use the menu button for Repeat Search in Summit. It can take from a few days to a week or more to obtain books from other libraries and to have them sent to Foster for you to pick up so use this option only if you can afford to wait.

An author search for Mintzberg, Henry produced a list of 13 records, including ten records in the Foster Business Library. Titles in the Foster Business Library include:

• Managers, not MBAs: a hard look at the soft practice of managing and management development   (2004)  
• Strategy safari: a guided tour through the wilds of strategic management   (1998)  
• The rise and fall of strategic planning: reconceiving roles for planning, plans, planners   (1994)  
• Mintzberg on management: inside our strange world of organizations   (1989)  
• Organizations: a quantum view   (1984)  
• Power in and around organizations   (1983)  
• Structure in fives: designing effective organizations   (1983)
• The nature of managerial work   (1973)

There are also books with chapters by or about Henry Mintzberg, including:

• Key management ideas: thinkers that changed the management world   (1998)   (See Henry Mintzberg: Strategy as craft, starting on page 94)
• Harvard business review on leadership   (1998)   (See Mintzberg's The Manager's Job: Folkiore and Fact, starting on page one)
• The ultimate book of business gurus: 110 thinkers who really made a difference   (1998)   (See Henry Mintzberg, starting on page 151)
• Writers on organizations   (1997)   (See Henry Mintzberg, starting on page 27)
• The Financial times handbook of management   (1995)   (See Thinkers: Henry Mintzberg, starting on page 513)

Foster Business Library Articles:

In addition to the 800 journals in the Foster Business Library Periodicals Collection, the Foster Business Library offers access to 11,000 full text periodical articles through its full text article databases such as: ABI/Inform Global, Factiva, and Lexis-Nexis Academic. These article databases may be found on the Foster Business Library homepage, listed alphabetically under Business Databases or in the Articles: Full Text folder.

Of these three main sources, all but Factiva are available from any computer on the campus network (as well as from home) via the UW Connectivity Kit or via the Libraries' proxy server. The easiest of these databases to use is ABI/Inform Global. For more information about accessing Foster Business Library databases from off campus, click here. For more information about business databases, click here.

• ABI/Inform Global:

  This database offers full text articles for over 800 journals. To find articles on specific topics, search by word or phrase by keying your search phrase into the search box. ABI/Inform Global includes journals but not national or Washington state newspapers (though the Wall Street Journal is included). It also does not include valuable trade and industry and other periodicals. Your searches will span the widest possible array of publications by expanding your search to all databases in ABI/Inform. To expand your search to include all collections in this database, click on Select multiple databases, to the right of the search box. Click then on Select all databases.

  Your search terms will be highlighted in red in each article. For tips on searching this database, click here.

  An author search, in all databases, for AU(Mintzberg, Henry), produced over 100 articles, including over sixty articles in scholarly journals, three articles in magazines, over twenty articles in trade and industry periodicals, and just four articles in newspapers.

  A personal name search, in all databases, for NA(Mintzberg, Henry), produced over forty articles.

The Foster Business Library Reference Desk is staffed nearly all the hours that the library is open. The staff at the desk will be happy to help you find research tools on any business subject. For e-mail questions, direct your query to balib@u.washington.edu. For assistance by telephone, dial (206) 543-8012 during library hours.

For research guides on a wide variety of industries, products, companies, issues and topics, see the Team Librarian Consultation archives.

• Team Consultation Archives (arranged by class or program)
• Team Consultation Archives (arranged by industry)
• Team Consultation Archives (arranged by title of assignment)
• Team Consultation Archives (arranged by academic quarter)
• Index to all Team Consultations and Research Guides