Business Administration

Databases for literature

Databases for research literature, in particular journal articles:

• ABI/INFORM COLLECTION – international
• Business Source Premier – international
• WISO – German-speaking countries and with practical relevance
• EconBiz – international and German-speaking countries

Databases for current press releases:

• Factiva
• Nexis Uni

Statistical databases

Overview on and access to Corporate and financial databases

Publications by statistical offices and international organizations:

• Destatis
• Eurostat
• OECD
• World Bank
• International Monetary Fund

More databases

Use the database and information system (DBIS) to find more databases on Business Administration, in particular statistical databases, and databases on other subject areas.

In the Electronic Journals Library (EZB) and the Primo catalog, you will find e-journals on Business Administration.

In our Primo catalog, you will find the e-books on Business or Economics which we licensed for you.

For more information on the terms of use, please refer to the Information on using e-books and databases.

Selected e-book packages

• Springer
• Oxford University Press
• OECD
• Edward Elgar
• Emerald
• World Bank
• De Gruyter
• Nomos

Publishing research data makes research transparent and reproducible. Universities, publishers and research funding organizations increasingly expect researchers to publish their research data.

The website forschungsdaten.info and the publication “Auffinden – Zitieren – Dokumentieren” (in German) offer introductory information.

If you are looking for repositories for research data, the re3data service might help. The DataCite service might be helpful for researching individual data sets internationally.

At the University of Mannheim, you can use MADATA to publish research data. For Economics and Social Sciences, GESIS operates the SowiDataNet/datorium platform. 

Subject-specific portals for Business and Economics

• EconBiz – the research and subject-specific portal of the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics
• SSRN: Social Science Research Network
• Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering
• VHB: German Academic Association of Business Research
• German Council of Economic Experts

Internet resources for subject-specific research

• Research tips for writing assignments – Materials provided by the ZBW (Leibniz Information Centre for Economics)
• STW – Standard Thesaurus for Economics

In the Schloss Schneckenhof Library, you will find literature on Business Administration which you can use on site. The items are freely accessible and organized according to subject area. Borrowing from this collection is only possible for academic staff of the University of Mannheim.

The Central Lending Library Schloss Westflügel hosts more literature on Business Administration which you can borrow with your ecUM or your library card.

The textbook collection in the Central Lending Library Schloss Westflügel hosts multiple copies of the most important textbooks. Students of the University of Mannheim and cooperating institutions are eligible to borrow from the textbook collection.

In the Primo catalog, you can search for the literature available at the University Library.

The most important institutions for Business Administration in Mannheim are:

• Business School 
• Mannheim Business School
• Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW)

The JOURQUAL3 journal ranking is important to Business Administration researchers in Germany. It is based on a survey among more than 1,100 members of the German Academic Association of Business Research (VHB).

The rankings in the Journal Citation Reports including the “impact factors” which are recalculated every year are internationally renowned. Just open the rankings in the “Web of Science” and select the categories relevant to Business, Finance or Management.

The Handelsblatt Business Administration ranking is a comprehensive ranking of persons and departments. The evaluation is based, inter alia, on publications in journals which are weighted based on the SCImago Journal Ranking (SJR) from the Scopus database. The SCImago Journal Ranking, for example, takes the number of citations and the prestige of the journal into account.