Library: Management: Books & cases

Find books and book chapters

Usually it's best to use the Library Catalogue to find books, however some of our books are purchased as discrete collections, or hosted on searchable platforms. One advantage of these collections is that you can perform in-depth, text-level searches.

Business Expert Press E-books (iG Library)
Applied, concise and practical e-books for MBA and postgraduate business students.

De Gruyter Business and Economics e-book collection

Elgaronline
Business, management, finance and economics e-book collection.

Emerald e-books
Book chapters and case studies.
IGI Global Business and Management Collection

IGI Global
E-books (technology, education and social sciences).

O'Reilly Learning
O'Reilly Learning is a collection of technical books from a number of publishers including Pearson and O'Reilly Media. The titles include many computing topics and programming and software guides. It also has a range of business and management titles. In addition to books, O'Reilly includes a large range of online training courses, on-demand learning materials and video resources.

PQ Ebook Central
Searchable and browsable e-book platform for books in all subject areas.
PQ One Business books
25,000 e-books from ProQuest. Select 'books' under 'source type' and then search by title or filter by subject.

SAGE Research Methods
E-books, articles, videos, podcasts and case studies about research methods (quantitative, qualitative and mixed: including data analysis, interviews, focus groups, literature reviews and systematic reviews).
It includes sample data sets and guidance on data visualisation as well as tools such as Which Stats Test, Project Planner, and Methods Map.
Springer Link e-books (Business, Management, Economics, Finance)

Taylor and Francis Small Business & Entrepreneurship Collection

Encyclopedias, dictionaries and bibliographies

New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online
Articles written by many of the world's leading economists.
Oxford English Dictionary
Oxford Reference Online
Collection of reference works published by Oxford University Press covering the Arts, English Language Reference, Modern Languages, Politics and Social Sciences, and Science.
Oxford Bibliographies for Management (access will expire end Aug 2025)
Well organised research starting points and summaries, identifying key articles, books, journals and authors across a range of topics.

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In addition to management our subscription includes education, psychology, linguistics, childhood studies and political science.
Wiley Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science
This multi-volume encyclopedia includes over 600 articles with contributions from over 1000 authors from 45 countries. It features introductory articles, advanced articles which review key areas of research, technical articles and case studies.

New management books

Find case studies

You will find case studies in the journal literature and we buy discrete case study collections which you can browse or search.

Emerald Core Case Collection
Three case collections: Emerging Markets, The Case Journal and The Case for Women. Classroom ready content with teaching notes. Access to more than 2,000 cases from 2011 onwards.
Teaching notes are available to staff with teaching responsibilities. Please email support@emeraldinsight.com to ask for the teaching notes for the case of your choice. If you run into difficulties seeing the teaching notes once you've been given access, try clearing your cache and cookies, close your browser and start afresh.

Emerald e-cases guide

Harvard Business Cases (on Business Source Ultimate)
Academic staff can order other HBR cases from The Case Centre via the programme administrators in the School of Management.
HSTalks: Business and Management Collection
10,000 multimedia lectures, case studies, interviews, key concepts and vocational articles.
Some of the case studies have reflective questions found under the question mark icon. HSTalks offer a complimentary service to academic staff, finding cases to match teaching requirements. See the form to complete here: https://hstalks.com/send-syllabus/

IGI Global E-cases Collection
We have complimentary access to 842 cases until the 28th April 2026.
Marketline Cases
430+ searchable business cases dating from 2016 to present.
Marketline Cases Archive
371 searchable business cases from 2010 to 2016
PQ One Business Cases
3,500 cases from ProQuest. Note that this link runs a 'saved search' for cases. Choose to modify the search to add keywords.

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Cases include those from: Journal of the International Academy for Case Studies‎; The Times 100 Business Case Studies‎; International Academy for Case Studies; Thunderbird Case Studies‎; Journal of Business Case Studies and SHRM Case Studies.

SAGE Business Cases
Access to more than 7,000 business cases from SAGE Publishing. Includes short express cases and also enhanced cases with video, animation and podcasts.
Teaching notes are available for staff with teaching responsibilities. Email library@bath.ac.uk for information and the code to access the teaching notes. SAGE offer a course mapping service, finding cases to match teaching requirements. Teaching staff can Konstantinos.Drakinos@sagepub.co.uk to access this service.

Sage Research Methods Cases
More than 770 cases searchable by keyword or browsable by method, discipline or academic level.
WARC Advertising Effectiveness Cases
More than 27,000 cases from the World Advertising Research Centre.