Library Guides: Open Educational Resources (OER): Business

Open Resources in Business

This page provides access to textbook repositories along with other selected open resources.

The purpose of these discipline specific pages is to showcase content that might be of interest to faculty who are considering adopting open educational resources for use in their classes. This list of content is by no means exhaustive, and more resources will be continually added.

The nature of open educational resources is very collaborative and it is in that spirit that we encourage any comments about the content featured on this page or recommendations of content that are not already listed here.

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Open Textbooks

Principles of Management by David Bright et al.
ISBN: 9780998625768
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 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.
Business Ethics by Stephen M. Byars; Kurt Stanberry
ISBN: 9781947172562
Publication Date: 2018
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.
Fundamentals of Business by Stephen J. Skripak; Richard Parsons (Contribution by); Anastasia Cortes (Contribution by, Designed by); Anita Walz (Contribution by, Managing editor); Brian Craig (Illustrator); Trevor Finney (Cover Design by)
ISBN: 9780997920116
Publication Date: 2016
Fundamentals of Business was created for Virginia Tech's MGT 1104 Foundations of Business through a collaboration between the Pamplin College of Business and Virginia Tech Libraries. This book is freely available at: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/70961 It is licensed with a Creative Commons-NonCommercial ShareAlike 3.0 license.

Openstax -OpenStax College at Rice University is a non-profit organization that has been funded through a number of foundations, including the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, to produce free, open, high quality textbooks in a number of disciplines. OpenStax books are peer-reviewed, customizable, and licensed under a Creative Commons License 4.0 International.
Open Textbook Library - Business, Management, and Marketing - A project of the University of Minnesota, The Open Textbook Library provides a review rubric for faculty to use when evaluating textbooks and displays them for the benefit of potential adopters.

BC Campus Open Ed - Openly licensed textbooks in subjects such as accounting, economics, marketing, and management created or revised by faculty from British Columbia's post-secondary institutions. Choose Business from the menu
InTech - Business, Management, and Economics - Open access books in business topics.
OER Commons - Business & Communication - Open textbooks at the undergraduate and graduate level, some with reviews.

Other Resources

MIT Open Courseware
Business and related materials, including video and audio lectures, lecture notes, student work, assessments and interactive simulations. Advanced search feature available.
TED Ed Business & Economics channel