MBA561 - Becker

Research guide for Project and Presentation.
Apply course-related theories and concepts to research on an approved topic, write a research paper, and present your findings in class.

• Determine your topic, then follow a process which makes sense to you for gathering relevant information.
• Using primary academic literature via the library databases, develop the background for your topic.
• Use 5 articles on a single topic from the approved journals below to inform your paper.

• Search within the approved journals (bitly shortened link, works on campus only)
• Search within the approved journals (direct (really long) link, works on campus only)
• Off campus users - see the bottom of this page for workaround

If you want to search a specific approved journal title, you can search the following databases individually for each title:
Database abbreviations:

• ABI = ABI Trade & Industry
• ASC = Academic Search Complete
• BSP = Business Source Premier
• ERC = Education Research Complete
• JSTOR
• MGC = Military & Government Collection
• PBSC = Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection
• PsycARTICLES
• PsycINFO
• SC = Sociological Collection
• SocINDEX
• VCC = Vocational & Career Collection

Definitions and background information on HR-related concepts.

Off campus Ship users, please test both of the Approved Journals search link options above – if they do not work, then please try this really basic workaround:

• From the library homepage: https://library.ship.edu
  • Click the “Ship Discovery Search” link under the center search box
  • If the library homepage does not open, this is the human-readable link to Ship Discovery Search
    https://library.ship.edu/eds
    or the full direct link:
    https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=sso&custid=s3915936&groupid=main&profile=eds
• Then: Click the Advanced Search link
  • In the top search box, paste the large ugly block of search text below, and click Search
    (this should limit the results to the approved journals, then you can add your topic terms to the second and third search boxes)

((JN "Academy of Management Journal") OR (JN "Academy of Management Learning & Education") OR (JN "Academy of Management Perspectives") OR (JN "Academy of Management Review") OR (JN "Administrative Science Quarterly") OR (JN "Business Horizons") OR (JN "California Management Review") OR (JN "Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice & Research") OR (JN "HRMagazine") OR (JN "Harvard Business Review") OR (JN "Human Relations") OR (JN "Human Resource Development Quarterly") OR (JN "Human Resource Management") OR (JN "Human Resource Management Review") OR (JN "Human Resource Planning") OR (JN "Industrial & Labor Relations Review") OR (JN "International Journal of Human Resource Management") OR (JN "Journal of Applied Psychology") OR (JN "Journal of Business Ethics") OR (JN "Journal of Business & Psychology") OR (JN "Journal of High Technology Management Research") OR (JN "Journal of Small Business Management") OR (JN "Journal of Management") OR (JN "Journal of Organizational Behavior") OR (JN "Organizational Behavior & Human Decision Processes") OR (JN "Organizational Dynamics") OR (JN "Personnel Psychology") OR (JN "Sloan Management Review") OR (JN "Training & Development Journal"))