Leadership Resources

The online and printed resources listed below follow a three tier scholarly communications model: knowledge, new research information, and reference tools.  Knowledge and New Information are partitioned into Content (reports, articles, books) and Finding Aids to content.  -- More on how to use this subject guide

Content

Finding Aids to Content

(1) Summarizing Knowledge
(Encyclopedic Articles, Textbooks, Handbooks, Research Reviews)
(2) Selective Bibliography
(Research & Subject Guides, Selective & Didactic Bibliography, Subject Directories) 
(3) New Information
(Scholarly Journals, Electronic Texts, Government Information, Books & Monographs, News & Newspapers,
Article Databases) 
(4) Comprehensive Bibliography
(Abstracts & Indexes, Comprehensive Bibliographies, Library & Book Catalogs, Archives, Search Engines, Metasearch Engines)

(5) Reference Tools, Data, Facts
(Almanacs, Biographical Sources, Dictionaries, Directories, Grants & Scholarships, Job Resources, Statistical Resources)


Title link                                       

On the World Wide Web

Title link                                       

OU Libraries online resource

Call number link (i.e., H 41.S63)  

OU Libraries physical collection

 Special note   

Special note

(1) Summarizing Knowledge
(Encyclopedic Articles, Textbooks & Histories, Handbooks, Research Reviews)

Encyclopedias
Encyclopedia of Management 0787630659
Encyclopedia of Leadership: Practical Guide to Popular Leadership Theories and Techniques


 

Textbooks & Histories
American Business Leaders: From Colonial Times to the Present 1576070026
Field Guide To Academic Leadership 0787960594



Handbooks
AMA Management Handbook 0814401058
New handbook of organizational communication : advances in theory, research, and methods 0803955030
Leader's change handbook: an essential guide to setting direction and taking action 0787943517


Research Reviews
Women in corporate leadership :reviewing a decade's research  (no ISBN)
 

(2) Selective Bibliography
(Research & Subject Guides, Selective & Didactic Bibliographies, Subject Directories)

Research & Subject Guides
Doing Research in Business and Management : an Introduction to Process and Method
Univerity of Alberta: Research Guides: Business: Management and Organizational Theory
Case Western Reserve Library
Harvard Libraries: Business and Management Resources
LSU Libraries: Management
Ohio State Library: Business

 

Selective & Didactic Bibliographies
 

European Leaders : a bibliography with Indexes 1560728388

Bibliography of African American leadership : an annotated guide 0313313148

Leaders' digest : a review of the best books on leadership 1570731454


Subject Directories

Librarians Index to the Internet: Business
Academic Info:  Business Administration
Open Directory: Management: Leadership
Business Publications: Management Science: Leadership
Humanityquest: Leadership

 

(3) New Information
(Most frequently cited journals, electronic texts, government information, books & monographs, news & newspapers, article databases)

Journals (most frequently cited)
Leadership Quarterly
Journal of Leadership Studies
Academy of Management Journal
Harvard Business Review
Organizational Behavior & Human Decision Processes
Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies
Strategy & Leadership
Journal of Organizational Behavior
Leadership


Electronic Texts
American City Business Journals 

 

Government Information
US Army Research Institute for Behavioral and Social Sciences

Business Statistics of the United States

US Office of Personnel Management: Salaries & Wages


Monographs & Books
Crisis Leadership: Planning for the Unthinkable 0471229180

Innovation through learning : what leaders need to know in the 21st century 0878755381

On the Nature of Leadership 0761824529

Shared leadership : reframing the hows and whys of leadership 0761926232

 

News & Newspapers
 

Article Databases
Business Source Elite

ABI/Inform

 

(4) Comprehensive Bibliography
(Abstracts & Indexes, Comprehensive Bibliographies, Library & Book, Catalogs, Archives, Search Engines, Metasearch Engines)

Abstracts & Indexes
Personnel Research Abstracts 087546050X

Comprehensive, Recurrent Bibliographies

Library & Book Catalogs, Archives

Search Engines
The BizTech Network
CEOExpress
Business.com:Management
Argus Clearinghouse
 

(5) Reference Resources, Facts & Data
(Almanacs, Biographical Sources, Dictionaries , Directories, Grants & Scholarships, Job Resources, Statistical Resources)

 

Almanacs
Information Please Almanac

Biographical Sources
Biographical Dictionary of Management 1855068710
Lives the Biography Resource

Data Collections

Dictionaries

Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Organizational Behavior
0631187812
Concise Dictionary of Business Management 0415188660
African-American Business Leaders: a biographical dictionary
Dictionary of Professional Management


Directories --  Associations, Organizations & Societies
Directory of Business Information Resources 92038430
Business Organizations, Agencies, and Publications Directory

Directories --  Companies, Vendors, etc.

Directories --  Discussion Groups

Directories --  Research Centers & Institutes
Center For Leadership Studies
Leadership Directories

Grants & Scholarships

Job Resources

Statistical Resources
 


This subject guide was last updated in Sept, 2003.  Contact Dr. Bob Swisher with comments and recommendations:  bswisher@ou.edu