Open Educational Resources: Business

• Accounting Principles: A Business Perspective

Accounting Principles: A Business Perspective uses annual reports of real companies to illustrate many of the accounting concepts in use in business today. Gaining an understanding of accounting terminology and concepts, however, is not enough to ensure your success.

• Business Ethics by Stephen M. Byars; Kurt Stanberry

ISBN: 9781947172562

Publication Date: 2018-09-24

Business Ethics is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the single-semester business ethics course. This title includes innovative features designed to enhance student learning, including case studies, application scenarios, and links to video interviews with executives, all of which help instill in students a sense of ethical awareness and responsibility.

• Business Law Essentials

ISBN: 9781947172784

Publication Date: 2019

Business Law I Essentials is a brief introductory textbook designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of courses on Business Law or the Legal Environment of Business. The concepts are presented in a streamlined manner, and cover the key concepts necessary to establish a strong foundation in the subject. The textbook follows a traditional approach to the study of business law. Each chapter contains learning objectives, explanatory narrative and concepts, references for further reading, and end-of-chapter questions.

• Business Plan Development Guide

This textbook and its accompanying spreadsheet templates were designed with and for students wanting a practical and easy-to-follow guide for developing a business plan. It follows a unique format that both explains what to do and demonstrates how to do it.

• Create or Perish: The Case for Inventions and Patents -Robert H. Rines

This textbook is the primary book used in the MIT course Inventions and Patents. It explores the history of private and public rights in scientific discoveries and applied engineering, leading to the development of worldwide patent systems. The classes of invention protectable under the patent laws of the U.S., including the procedures in protecting inventions in the Patent Office and the courts will be examined. Additionally, several case studies are outlined in the text.

•  Entrepreneurship by Michael Laverty; Chris Littel

ISBN: 9781947172692

Publication Date: 2019-06-01

This textbook is intended for use in introductory Entrepreneurship classes at the undergraduate level. Due to the wide range of audiences and course approaches, the book is designed to be as flexible as possible. Theoretical and practical aspects are presented in a balanced manner, and specific components such as the business plan are provided in multiple formats. Entrepreneurship aims to drive students toward active participation in entrepreneurial roles, and exposes them to a wide range of companies and scenarios.

•  Financial Accounting by University of Minnesota Libraries (Adapted by)

ISBN: 9781946135100

Publication Date: 2016-03-22

This book is suitable for an undergraduate or MBA level Financial Accounting course. The authors bring their collective teaching wisdom to bear in this book not by changing "the message"(financial accounting content), but by changing "the messenger" (the way the content is presented). The approach centers around utilizing the Socratic method, or simply put, asking and answering questions. The reason that this approach continues to be glorified after thousands of years is simple - it engages students and stresses understanding over memorization. So this text covers standard topics in a standard sequence, but does so through asking a carefully constructed series of questions along with their individual answers.

• Fundamentals of Business, Third Edition by Stephen Skripak (Adapted by); Ron Poff (Contribution by)

ISBN: 9781949373356

Publication Date: 2020-12-21

Fundamentals of Business, third edition (2020) is an 370-page open education resource intended to serve as a no-cost, faculty customizable primary text for one-semester undergraduate introductory business courses. It covers the following topics in business: Teamwork; economics; ethics; entrepreneurship; business ownership, management, and leadership; organizational structures and operations management; human resources and motivating employees; managing in labor union contexts; marketing and pricing strategy; hospitality and tourism, accounting and finance, and personal finances.

• Industrial Organization -Nicolas Boccard

Our aim in this book is best understood by looking at the historical development of the field. According to the standard definition, economic science studies the allocation of scarce resources among alternative uses to achieve desired objectives; Industrial Organization, in turn, focuses on the firms that are involved in this process taking especially into account the fact that competition is "among the few".

• Management Communication

Communication is the heart of business. Short emails, complex reports, private chats, impassioned pitches, formal presentations, and team meetings move information and ideas around an organization, define strategy, and drive decisions. Business communication is concise, direct, clear, and compelling.

•  Organizational Behavior by Stewart Black; Donald G. Gardner; Jon L. Pierce; Richard Steers

ISBN: 9781947172715

Publication Date: 2019-05-31

This OpenStax resource aligns to introductory courses in Organizational Behavior. The text presents the theory, concepts, and applications with particular emphasis on the impact that individuals and groups can have on organizational performance and culture. An array of recurring features engages students in entrepreneurial thinking, managing change, using tools/technology, and responsible management.

• Principles of Management by University of Minnesota Libraries (Adapted by)

ISBN: 9781946135186

Publication Date: 2015-10-27

This textbook teaches management principles to tomorrow’s business leaders by weaving three threads through every chapter: strategy, entrepreneurship and active leadership.
This book's modular format easily maps to a POLC course organization (Planning, Organizing, Leading, and Controlling, attributed to Henri Fayol (1949, General and industrial management. London. Pitman Publishing company), and suits the needs of most undergraduate or graduate course in Principles of Management.

• Principles of Management

ISBN: 9780998625775

Publication Date: 2019

Principles of Management is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the introductory course on management. This is a traditional approach to management using the leading, planning, organizing, and controlling approach. Management is a broad business discipline, and the Principles of Management course covers many management areas such as human resource management and strategic management, as well as behavioral areas such as motivation. No one individual can be an expert in all areas of management, so an additional benefit of this text is that specialists in a variety of areas have authored individual chapters.

• Principles of Microeconomics 2e by Steven A. Greenlaw; David Shapiro

ISBN: 9781947172340

Publication Date: 2017-09-15

Principles of Microeconomics 2e covers the scope and sequence of most introductory microeconomics courses. The text includes many current examples, which are handled in a politically equitable way. The outcome is a balanced approach to the theory and application of economics concepts. The second edition has been thoroughly revised to increase clarity, update data and current event impacts, and incorporate the feedback from many reviewers and adopters.

• Strategic Management

The open textbook is intended for a senior capstone course in an undergraduate business program and suitable for a wide range of undergraduate business students including those majoring in marketing, management, business administration, accounting, finance, real estate, business information technology, and hospitality and tourism.

·  Business Communication for Success

·  Business Fundamentals

·  eMarketing: The Essential Guide to Marketing in a Digital World

·  Entrepreneurship and Innovation Toolkit

·  Exploring Business

·  Foundations of Business Law and Legal Environment

·  Fundamentals of Business

·  Human Resource Management

·  Introduction to Business

·  Lumen Learning Macroeconomics

·  Management Principles

·  Microeconomics: Theory Through Applications

·  OpenStax Principles of Economics

·  Personal Finance

·  Principles of Economics

·  Principles of Marketing

·  Principles of Microeconomics: Scarcity and Social Provisioning

Business Fundamentals  by Don McCubbrey, Business, University of Denver 

Fundamentals of Business  by Stephen Skripak, Virginia Tech 

Publication Date: 2016

Exploring Business  by Dr. Karen Collins, Lehigh University 

Publication Date: 2016

Business Communication for Success  by Scott McLean, Arizona Western College 

Publication Date: 2015

Introductory Business Statistics  by Thomas Tiemann, Elon University 

Publication Date: 2010

Beginning Excel  by Noreen Brown, Barbara Lave, Julie Romey, Mary Schatze & Diana Shingledecker 

Publication Date: 2017

Accounting

Accounting Principles: A Business Perspective  by James Don Edwards, University of Georgia ; Roger H. Hermanson, Georgia State University ; Susan D. Ivancevich, University of North Carolina Wilmington 

Managerial Accounting  by Kurt Heisinger, Sierra College & Joe Hoyle, University of Richmond 

Introduction to Financial Accounting  by David Annand, EdD, MBA, CPA, CA, Professor of Accounting in the Faculty of Business at Athabasca University 

Publication Date: 2017

Financial Accounting  by (Pub) University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing 

Publication Date: 2016

Intermediate Financial Accounting Volume 1  by Glenn Arnold & Suzanne Kyle 

Publication Date: 2016

Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship and Innovation Toolkit  by Lee Swanson 

Publication Date: 2017

Small Business Management in the 21st Century  by David Cadden, Quinnipiac University & Sandra Lueder, Southern Connecticut State University 

Publication Date: 2012

Sustainability, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship  by Andrea Larson, University of Virginia 

Publication Date: 2011

The Business Plan Development Guide  by Lee Swanson 

Publication Date: 2017

Create or Perish: The Case for Inventions and Patents  by Dr. Robert H. Rines 

Publication Date: 2008

Law for Entrepreneurs  by Don Mayer, University of Denver ; Daniel Warner, Western Washington University ; George Siedel, University of Michigan ; Jethro Lieberman, New York Law School 

Publication Date: 2012

Ethics (for Business)

Business Ethics  by OpenStax 

Publication Date: 2018

The Business Ethics Workshop  by James Brusseau, Pace University 

Publication Date: 2012

The Legal and Ethical Environment of Business  by Lisa Johnson, University of Puget Sound & Terence Lau, University of Dayton 

Publication Date: 2011

Good Corporation, Bad Corporation: Corporate Social Responsibility in the Global Economy  by Guillermo C. Jimenez & Elizabeth Pulos, SUNY Fashion Institute of Technology 

Publication Date: 2011

Public Debt, Inequality, and Power: The Making of a Modern Debt State  by Sandy Brian Hager 

Publication Date: 2016

The Sustainable Business Case Book  by Ross Gittell, University of New Hampshire ; Matt Magnusson, University of New Hampshire ; Michael Merenda, Whittemore School of Business 

Publication Date: 2012

Finance

Financial Strategy for Public Managers  by Sharon Kioko & Justin Marlowe 

Publication Date: 2016

Money and Banking  by Robert Wright, NYU 

Publication Date: 2012

Personal Finance  by Rachel Siegel, Lyndon State University & Carol Yacht, University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee 

Publication Date: 2009

Global / International Business

International Business  by Mason Carpenter, University of Wisconsin at Madison & Sanjyot Dunung, Atma Global 

Publication Date: 2011

Fundamentals of Global Strategy  by Cornelis de Kluyver, University of Oregon 

Publication Date: 2012

Business English for Success  by Scott McLean, Arizona Western College 

Publication Date: 2011

Human Resources

Human Resource Management  by Laura Dias, Shoreline Community College 

Trouble at Work  by Ralph Fevre, Duncan Lewis, Amanda Robinson & Trevor Jones 

Publication Date: 2012

Law (for Business)

The Legal and Ethical Environment of Business  by Lisa Johnson, University of Puget Sound & Terence Lau, University of Dayton 

Publication Date: 2011

Business Law and the Legal Environment  by Don Mayer, University of Miami ; Daniel Warner, Western Washington University ; George Siedel, University of Michigan Business School 

Publication Date: 2012

Foundations of Business Law and Legal Environment  by Don Mayer, University of Denver 

Publication Date: 2012

Advanced Business Law and the Legal Environment  by Don Mayer, University of Denver ; Daniel Warner, Western Washington University ; George Siedel, University of Michigan ; Jethro Lieberman, New York Law School ; Alyssa Martina, Metro Parent Publishing Group 

Publication Date: 2012

Government Regulation and the Legal Environment of Business  by Don Mayer, University of Denver ; Daniel Warner, Western Washington University ; George Siedel, University of Michigan; Jethro Lieberman, New York Law School 

Publication Date: 2012

Introduction to Contracts, Sales and Product Liability  by Don Mayer, University of Denver ; Daniel Warner, Western Washington University ; George Siedel, University of Michigan ; Jethro Lieberman, New York Law School 

Publication Date: 2012

Introduction to the Law of Property, Estate Planning and Insurance  by Don Mayer, University of Denver ; Daniel Warner, Western Washington University ; George Siedel, University of Michigan ; Jethro Lieberman, New York Law School 

Publication Date: 2012

Law for Entrepreneurs  by Don Mayer, University of Denver ; Daniel Warner, Western Washington University ; George Siedel, University of Michigan ; Jethro Lieberman, New York Law School 

Publication Date: 2012

Law of Commercial Transactions  by Don Mayer, University of Denver ; Daniel Warner, Western Washington University ; George Siedel, University of Michigan ; Jethro Lieberman, New York Law School 

Publication Date: 2012

Legal Aspects of Corporate Management and Finance  by Don Mayer, University of Denver ; Daniel Warner, Western Washington University ; George Siedel, University of Michigan; Jethro Lieberman, New York Law School 

Publication Date: 2012

Legal Aspects of Marketing and Sales  by Don Mayer, University of Denver ; Daniel Warner, Western Washington University ; George Siedel, University of Michigan; Jethro Lieberman, New York Law School 

Publication Date: 2012

Management & Leadership

Mastering Strategic Management  by Dave Ketchen, Auburn University & Jeremy Short, University of Oklahoma 

Publication Date: 2016

Focusing on Organizational Change  by William Judge, Old Dominion University 

Publication Date: 2012

Leading with Cultural Intelligence  by Mai Moua, Leadership Paradigms, Inc 

Publication Date: 2012

Communication in the Real World: An Introduction to Communication Studies  by University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing 

Publication Date: 2016

Beyond Lean: Simulation in Practice, Second Edition  by Charles Standridge, Grand Valley State University 

Publication Date: 2013

Building Strategy and Performance  by Kim Warren, London Business School 

Publication Date: 2012

Growth and Competitive Strategy in 3 Circles  by Joe Urbany, University of Notre Dame ; James Davis 

Publication Date: 2012

Marketing & Sales

Principles of Marketing  by Jeff Tanner, Baylor University & Mary Anne Raymond, Clemson University 

Publication Date: 2015

Introducing Marketing  by John Burnett 

Publication Date: 2011

Electronic Commerce: The Strategic Perspective  by Richard Watson, University of Georgia Pierre Berthon, Bentley College Leyland Pitt, Simon Fraser University George Zinkhan, University of Georgia ; 

eMarketing: The Essential Guide to Marketing in a Digital World  by Rob Stokes, Quirk eMarketing 

Publication Date: 2008

The Power of Selling  by Kimberly Richmond, Richmond Marketing + Communications 

Publication Date: 2010

Legal Aspects of Marketing and Sales  by Don Mayer, University of Denver ; Daniel Warner, Western Washington University ; George Siedel, University of Michigan; Jethro Lieberman, New York Law School 

Publication Date: 2012

Organization (of Business)

Organizational Behavior  by University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing, through the eLearning Support Initiative. 

Publication Date: 2017

Corporate Governance  by Cornelis de Kluyver, University of Oregon 

Publication Date: 2012

Guidelines for Improving the Effectiveness of Boards of Directors of Nonprofit Organizations  by Yvonne Harrison, University at Albany ; Vic Murray, University of Victoria 

Publication Date: 2014

Industrial Organization  by Dr. Niccolas Boccard, Economics, University of Girona 

Publication Date: 2010

Project Management

Project Management  by Adrienne Watt 

Project Management from Simple to Complex  by University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing, through the eLearning Support Initiative 

Publication Date: 2016

Developing New Products and Services  by G. Lawrence Sanders, State University of New York at Buffalo 

Publication Date: 2012