Athenea Digital
http://antalya.uab.es/athenea/indice/
Athenea Digital is an "academic, peer reviewed, electronic and free access journal on social sciences", promoting interdisciplinary reflection and covering politics, sociology, business, psychology and economics. It also encourages debate on the environment, postmodernism, social conflict and organisational change. Abstracts can be freely viewed and articles are in Spanish, Portuguese or Catalan. The journal is hosted by the Department of Social Psychology at the Free University of Barcelona.
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Benchmarking: an International Journal
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/info/journals/bij/bij.jsp
Benchmarking is an electronic journal published by Emerald. The journal "regularly reviews different approaches to benchmarking to help develop and refine the best possible approach for any organization". It is aimed at all managers involved in quality assurance. Articles are offered online from 1994 to the present day. The full-text version is only available for subscribers, but contents and abstracts lists are available to anyone.
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Businessballs 
http://www.businessballs.com
Businessballs - established and run by the Alan Chapman Consultancy of Leicester, England - is a free online training resource containing a wealth of information and training tools on " ... sales, management, motivation training and free team building games for business, organisational development, personal development and executive coaching". Materials here cover a wide range of topics (not a comprehensive list) from; Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, Mcgregor's XY Theory, Frederick Herzberg, Ruiz's The Four Agreements, Eric Berne Transactional Analysis - to project management training, performance appraisals and 360 degree appraisals tips, Just in Time (JIT), team building games, sample CV's and job description samples and templates.
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Centre for Business Research
http://www.cbr.cam.ac.uk/
The Centre for Business Research (CBR) was established by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) in 1994 within the Department of Applied Economics, University of Cambridge. The Centre's work falls broadly into two areas: Enterprise and innovation, especially in SMEs; Corporate Governance. The site provides links to the Centre's reports (PDF), a list of current research programmes, information about the Centre's staff, and news.
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Centre for Employment Studies Research
http://www.uwe.ac.uk/bbs/research/cesr/index.shtml
Website of the Centre for Employment Studies Researcht (CESR) a research centre within the Bristol Business School, University of the West of England. There are five strands of activity: work organisation; employment restructuring; trade unions; cross-national comparative employment systems; employment relations theory. Working papers can be viewed (in PDF). A journal is published and seminars are held.
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Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition (CRIC)
http://www.cric.ac.uk/
This is an archive of the ESRC Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition (CRIC) website of a research centre which focused on three main areas: 1) the study of innovation as a social, economic and managerial process 2) competing concepts of innovation 3) consumption and innovation. In September 2007 it combined with the Centre for Science and Technology Policy and Management Research of Manchester Business School (PREST) to combine their expertise to form the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research.
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Charles Handy - Biography
http://www.lib.uwo.ca/programs/generalbusiness/HANDY.html
A useful resource for business studies students and researchers of Handy's work on management. This biography is produced by library services at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. There is a book list, articles by Handy and articles about him. There are some links to the electronic journals which published them.
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Complexity and Management Centre (CMC), University of Hertfordshire
http://perseus.herts.ac.uk/prospectus/faculty_bs/uhbs/research/complexity-a
The Complexity and Management Centre was set up in 1995 and is situated in the Business School, University of Hertfordshire. CMC has an interdisciplinary focus, drawing on work in the natural sciences (evolutionary theory), social sciences (social constructionism)and psychology, and management. CMC members research complexity in organizations, bringing together theory and practice. The centre runs postgraduate courses and publishes working papers - these are listed on the site. They can be ordered online. Examples of research undertaken are: chaos in organizations, creativity, complexity science and virtual teamworking.
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Corporate Social Responsibility
http://www.mallenbaker.net/csr/index.html
The Corporate Social Responsibility site is the brainchild of Mallen Baker, the Development Director for the UK organisation Business in the Community. He explains "It is an expression of my own interest and concern in how companies respond to the growing need to manage issues that affect their business reputation". The site looks at current issues and news items, with an international focus. Some reports and case studies are available in PDF. There are links to other good business ethics websites. Users can subscribe to the CSR site and receive free online newsletters or a newsfeed.
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critical-management mailing list archive
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/critical-management.html
This JISCmail list supports critical discussion, reflection and research in the fields of business, management and organization studies. It aims to encourage and promote debate from a range of disciplines and perspectives in challenging orthodox approaches to management research and education. The list is heavily used.
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DIUS: Investing in our future
http://www.dius.gov.uk/innovation/
This website is part of the UK government's Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) website. DIUS aims to boost investment in innovation, to help the UK's economic growth. Various activities are covered in the site, such as research and development, what the Office for Life Sciences does, innovation procurement policy and benchmarking. Speeches by government ministers and staff are accessible. Reports and analysis can be read.
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Drucker Institute
http://www.druckerinstitute.com/
"The Institute is a campus-wide resource of Claremont Graduate University and is closely aligned with the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management, where Peter Drucker taught for 35 years and which continues to produce effective managers and ethical leaders for business, government and civil society." It is connected with the Drucker Archives but looks to the future and keeps alive the ideas and spirit of Drucker's work. eg. on non-profits and innovation. There is a biography of Drucker's career.
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Emergence: A Journal of Complexity Issues in Organizations and Management
http://emergence.org/
This journal is concerned with the emerging theory of complex systems in management. It is read by managers, academics and consultants. Some free sample copies can be viewed online. Details of the editorial board are given; this is composed mainly of academics. Individual articles or the complete journal can be subscribed to. It is published by ISCE publishing, USA.
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ESRC Centre for Organization and Innovation
http://esrccoi.group.shef.ac.uk/
This is the home page of the Centre for Organization and Innovation which was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) from 1996 to 2006. The Centre was hosted at the Institute of Work Psychology at the University of Sheffield in the UK. The Centre aimed to "advance understanding of how work organisation affects the successful use of new technologies, techniques and management practices, and job, team and organisational practices affect employee innovation." The home page has information about the Centre's research and contact details.
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Evolution of Business Knowledge Programme (EBK)
http://www.ebkresearch.org/
This major research project was funded by the ESRC and ran from 2002-2007. It encompassed various projects, all co-ordinated by Prof. Harry Scarbrough of Warwick Business School, University of Warwick. The executive summary reads "This programme takes as its starting point the critical role which knowledge and learning play in economic competitiveness and organisational performance." Full details of programme aims and the separate projects are given, with contact details of key people.
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Futurefocus
http://www.berr.gov.uk/aboutus/corporate/futurefocus/about-us/index.html
Futurefocus is a purpose-built resource provided by the UK government for staff in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), and also across government and business. It offers a neutral and confidential facilitation and mentoring process, supported by a team of professional business consultants and facilitators. Non-government groups can use it for a fee.
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Geert Hofstede's Homepage
http://stuwww.uvt.nl/~csmeets/
The home page of the influential management guru, Geert Hofstede. Read about his major project on national culture differences at IBM and subsequent studies. He also writes about organisation cultures. A very useful site for management students, which also updates on the very newest thinking of Hofstede.
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Imaginization
http://www.imaginiz.com/
Devotees of Gareth Morgan (the change management expert) and his work will find this site particularly illuminating. It contains language and diagrams from his speeches and work (particularly his book Imaginization) in fields, such as creativity in action, achieving quantum change, re-energising the change process and designing and managing network organizations.
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In Business
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/inbusiness/inbusiness.shtml
Website for the Radio 4 programme by Peter Day. Information about the programme is given on this website and podcasts of each week's recording are available here. They say "In Business is all about change. New ways of work and new technologies are challenging most of the assumptions by which organisations have been run for the last 100 years. We try to report on ideas coming over the horizon, just before they start being talked about. We hope it is an exhilarating ride."
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Industrial and Corporate Change
http://icc.oxfordjournals.org/
The journal is committed to presenting and interpreting the evidence on corporate and industrial change, drawing from an interdisciplinary set of approaches and theories from economics, sociology of organization, organization theory, political science, and social psychology. It is a forum where industrial historians explicitly relate their analyses to the state of the art in the relevant social sciences and propose conjectures and theories. Conversely, economists and practitioners of other social disciplines are encouraged to apply their models to the historical evidence. The site contains information on abstracting and indexing services, advertising rates, aims and scope, subscription information, and instructions to authors. Tables of contents are available.
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Information and Organization
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/621423/descrip
Formerly known as Accounting, Management and Information Technologies, this journal is peer reviewed and now focuses on the relationships between information technologies and social organization. Some of the areas emphasised by the editors are: social construction of information technologies; the implications of information technologies for organizational change; alternative organizational designs such as virtual and networked organizations; information system development; organizational governance and control; accounting systems; globalization; organizational communication and organizational culture. Tables of contents with abstracts are accessible from this site, as are the table of contents (no abstracts) for the predecessor journal.
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Information Systems Research Centre
http://www.som.cranfield.ac.uk/som/research/centres/isrc/
Based at Cranfield School of Management, this research centre examines a range of IT activities within the business world, including benefits from IT investments in business, IT innovation and IT management. Contact details are given the for the centre. It is possible to link to all the other Cranfield research centres from this Website.
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International Centre for Women Leaders
http://www.som.cranfield.ac.uk/som/p1087/Research/Research-Centres/Centre-f
This centre is based at Cranfield School of Management. "The Centre aims first to understand the issues facing senior women managers, and second the impact of organizational and personal factors on women's managerial careers." The findings will be applied to Cranfield's own management curriculum, as well as being available to the wider academic community. Research themes cover such areas as leadership, mentoring and work-life balance. As well as research papers, the site offers details of short courses and news for women managers. The Centre also publishes a report called The Female FTSE Report, about women in financial services management.
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International Journal of Business Environment (IJBE)
http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijbe
"The IJBE fosters research on how firms behave under different types of environment and aims to examine the external influences on business organisations. This journal examines a wide variety of business decisions, processes and activities within the business environment." This journal is published by Inderscience and appears four times a year. Contents pages and abstracts can be freely viewed, but for full-text access, a subscription is needed.
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International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management (IJEIM)
https://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=7
Published by Inderscience in Switzerland, this journal has been in existence since January 2003. Contents pages can be viewed; subjects covered include the role of entrepreneurship in economic development, licensing and franchising, cross-cultural management, and government policies towards entrepreneurship, in developed and developing countries, plus many other issues. The intended audience are policy makers, experts and professionals working in universities, government departments, research institutions, as well as industry and related businesses. The full-text version can be ordered on subscription or separate articles can be purchased online.
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