Daniel Webster College :: Library

Scope: This pathfinder is a selective sampling of resources available in the library on the topic of entrepreneurship. Subject covered including starting your own business, business plans, and small business. This pathfinder will serve as a guideline for students in locating library materials on this topic.

SUBJECT HEADINGS

Books dealing with the subject of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship are listed in the Baddour Library's online catalog under the following subject headings:

Entrepreneurship
Businessmen
Business plan
New Business Enterprises

There are sources located in the Reference Section of the Baddour Library that give a general overview or summary of the topic you are researching. The following is a list of some of the sources available in the library.

OVERVIEW SOURCES

REF HD 62.7.H553 1998 Encyclopedia of Small Business

REF HD 2344.5.U6W35 1998 The History of Black Business in America

BIOGRAPHICAL SOURCES (sources that give biographical information on famous men and women in the fields of business, economics)

REF HD6054.5.U6S53 1995 Enterprising Women

REF HD 38.25.U6S53 1995 The New Career Makers

REF HD 6095.S34 1993 Women in the Workplace

Some representative books from the Circulating Collection that is located upstairs in the library are:

CIRCULATING BOOKS

Arkebauer, James B. The Entrepreneur's Guide to Going Public. Dover, NH Upstart, 1994.

Harvard Business Review on Entrepreneurship. Boston, a: Harvard Business School Press, 1999.

Koehn, Nancy F. Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers Trust from Wedgwood to Dell. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2001.

Krauss, Peter. The Book of Entrepreneur's Wisdom: Classic Writings by Legendary Entrepreneurs. New York: Wiley, 1999.

Landrum, Gene N. Profiles of Genius: Thirteen Creative Men Who Changed the World. Buffalo, N.Y: Prometheus Books, 1993.

Moore, Dorothy P. Women Entrepreneurs: Moving Beyond the Glass Ceiling. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 1997.

Shefsky, Lloyd E. Entrepreneurs are Made Not Born. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1994.

BUSINESS PLANS

King, Jan B. Business Plans to Game Plans: A Practical System for Turning Strategies into Action. Santa Monica,Calif: Merritt, 1994.

Craft, Donna, ed. Business Plans Handbook: A Compilation of Actual Business Plans Developed by Small Businesses Throughout North America

Some of the specific periodicals that the library subscribes to that focus on the topic of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship are:

PERIODICALS, JOURNALS & TRADE PUBLICATIONS

Black Enterprise
Business Horizons
Business Week
Forbes
Fortune
Harvard Business Review
Inc
Journal of Business Strategy
Journal of Small Business Management
Leader to Leader
Management Science

Open Access Journals in Business & Management

VIDEOS

HD 62.7 .F3 1985 Famous Amos: The Business Behind the Cookie

HF 5386 .M3 1997 Mark McCormack, Portrait of an Entrepreneur

TX 910.5 .K76 Ray Kroc: Fast-Food McMillionaire

HC 102.5 .W35 1997 Sam Walton: Bargain Billionaire

Updated 08/22/2007