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Research guide to business resources

Be efficient in your research and use the various databases, reference works and additional literature in the field of management and economics.

Databases

Name Content Guide
ABI/Inform
  • Subjects: Business, management, business administration, marketing
  • Coverage: International, English
  • Content: Journal articles, market studies, company information, business cases, dissertations, conference papers
  • Special feature: Comprehensive for business studies
 ProQuest Guide
Business Source Premier
  • Subjects: Business, management, business administration, accounting, marketing
  • Coverage: International, multilingual
  • Content: Journal articles, market studies, company information, business cases, conference papers
  • Special feature: Comprehensive for business studies
 Guides
EconLit
  • Subjects: Economics
  • Coverage: International, English
  • Content: Journal articles, dissertations
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WISO
  • Subjects: Business, economics, social sciences, social work, social pedagogy, politics and international relations
  • Coverage: Germany, Switzerland, Austria, German
  • Content: Journal articles, other publications, some only abstracts
  • Special feature: Focus on practice-relevant topics
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WEKA Online Products
  • Subjects: Business, management
  • Coverage: Germany, Switzerland, Austria, German
  • Content: Specialist articles, guidelines, templates, working aids
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Gartner
  • Subjects: Computer science, technology, business
  • Coverage: International, English
  • Content: Market analyses, reports, forecasts
    • The database is not licensed for continuing education students.
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Orbis
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  • Subjects: Company information
  • Coverage: International, multilingual
  • Content: Analyses, industry reports, statistics, financial reports, company profiles
    • To save your own search and filter settings, create an individual account with the following login details:
    Username: ZFH-register, Password: bvdregister
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Passport
  • Subjects: Business, market and industry analysis
  • Coverage: International: licensed reports for Europe (Western & Eastern) and Asia; multilingual
  • Content: Country data, consumer data, data on market volume and market size, forecasts, statistics
  • Special feature: Market research database from Euromonitor International
    • First enter ZHAW as the organisation and then log in with SWITCH edu-ID.
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Mintel
  • Subjects: Beauty and personal care, drink, food
  • Coverage: International, English and German
  • Content: Product database, industry reports
  • Special feature: Integrated AI tool
Accessible to ZHAW members only. 		Video tutorial: Mintel platform
Video tutorial: Mintel report
OECD
  • Subjects: Business, politics, social sciences
  • Coverage: OECD countries, multilingual
  • Content: Reports, statistics, studies
  • Special feature: Official data collection from the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) and other institutions such as the International Energy Agency (IEA) and the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)
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Open access portals

Search for scientific publications that are freely available worldwide, also known as open access publications.

Reference works

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Not sure where to start yet? Reference works are a good first step: they provide definitions, give an overview of a topic and help you find the right search terms for your research.

You can find all reference works in ZHAW swisscovery. To help you get started quickly in your specialist area, we have put together a selection of titles below. 

General reference works can be found with the monolingual and multilingual dictionaries.

Bachelor's and master's theses

Selected theses from the School of Management and Law are available in the ZHAW digitalcollection.