School of Management and Innovation
2019 Training: exercises
Each group has some bibliographic references that need to find using the search tools presented.
Let’s free to explore the following tools:
- the library catalog
- One Search
- Google Scholar
- Online journals
- electronic resources: Business Source Complete, Europresse, Financial Times, Orbis, Oxford bibliographies, Proquest Business Collection, Statista, The New York Times, Wiley, World Bank-Data Catalog, Xerfi
Exercise 1: Identify the documentary resources according to the theme and type of document
Which is the most relevant search tool for each reference?
Group 1
1 - Find this reference by at least 2 ways :
Martin Wolf, “The Case for Capitalism”. Financial Times, 28 mars 2019.
2 - Find this reference :
“Global Database of Shared Prosperity (GDSP) | Data Catalog”. World Bank, time series, Release Date: October 23, 2017 ; Last Updated: May 1, 2019.
3 - Search all articles in the June 2019 issue of Growth & Change journal.
4 - Find the location of this reference :
Eloi Laurent, Measuring tomorrow : accounting for well-being, resilience, and sustainability in the twenty-first century. Princeton University Press, 2018.
5 - Find this reference :
Tuur Ghys, “Analysing social innovation through the lens of poverty reduction: five key factors”. European Public & Social Innovation Review, 2017, Vol 2, n°2.
Group 2
1 - Find this reference by at least 2 ways :
Kevin Roose, “A Machine May Not Take Your Job, but One Could Become Your Boss”. The New York Times. 23 juin 2019.
2 - Identify the resource in which this reference is available in ppt or xls format :
“Global wealth distribution in 2018, by net worth of individuals (in millions)”. Credit Suisse.
3 - Find this reference :
John Timpson, “How helping the community can be good for business”. The Telegraph, 19 June 2019.
4 - Find the location of this reference :
Steven Hail, Economics for sustainable prosperity. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
5 - Find this reference :
Sam Bliss, The Incipient Degrowth Movement in the United States. 21 August 2018.
Group 3
1 - Find this bibliography :
Leslie Irvine, Jenny R. Vermilya, “Gender and professions”. Oxford bibliographies, last modified 29 may 2019.
2 - Search the accounts of Uber Technologies, Inc. located in San Francisco for the last 5 years in xls format.
3 - Find this reference :
“The second half of the internet: A global timepass economy”. The Economist, June 8 2019.
4 - Find the location of this reference :
Yascha Mounk, The age of responsibility: luck, choice, and the welfare state. Harvard University Press, 2017.
5 - Find this reference :
Dhruv Sharma, Fostering social innovation for active ageing: tackling later life loneliness. 2018.
Group 4
1 - Find this reference :
“The Global E-commerce Industry: the market”. Xerfi. 24/06/2019.
2 - Search all the articles in issue 5-6 of 2019 of the journal Entrepreneurship & Regional Development.
3 - Find this reference :
John Konrad, “The next global tech disruption will happen where few expect it”. The Boston Globe, 30 June 2019.
4 - Find the location of this reference :
Mark Duffield. “Post-humanitarianism : governing precarity in the digital world” in: Polity, 2019.
5 - Find this reference :
Tommaso Venturini, Anders Munk, Axel Meunier. “Data-Sprinting: a Public Approach to Digital Research” in: Interdisciplinary Research Methods, In press.
Exercice 2: Evaluate search results
Source 1 : page to analyze
Source 2 : page to analyze
Source 3 : page to analyze
Source 4 : page to analyze
