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Sage provides online Encyclopedias, Handbooks and Dictionaries that cover topics in the Business & Leadership.

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Encyclopedias & Handbooks

Encyclopedia of business information sources by Paul Wasserman
Call Number: ebook

This is a comprehensive listing of business related finding aids including abstracting and indexing services, almanacs and yearbooks, bibliographies, biographical sources, directories, encyclopedias and dictionaries, financial ratios, handbooks and manuals, online databases, periodicals and newsletters, price sources, research centers and institutes, statistical sources trade associations and professional societies, and other related sources of information on each topic.
Encyclopedia of leadership by George R Goethals; Georgia Jones Sorenson; James MacGregor Burns
Call Number: ebook
Publication Date: 2004

Interdisciplinary coverage of the field of leadership studies.
Encyclopedia of Business and Finance by Burton S Kaliski
Call Number: ebook
Publication Date: 2006

Designed for the non-specialist, this is a complete reference covering finance and banking, accounting, marketing, management, and information systems. Contributors include academics and business scholars from leading business programs. The new completely revised second edition includes 320 signed essays.

What's a tertiary source?

Tertiary sources are excellent starting points! They consist of information synthesized from primary and secondary sources. Examples include:

Almanacs
Chronologies
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Directories
Fact books
Guidebooks
Indexes, abstracts, bibliographies used to locate primary and secondary sources
Manuals
Textbooks

These resources give you succinct overviews of your topic, explain scholarly arguments, point out interesting questions, and refer you to especially key sources.

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