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Administration (ADM)
Building Relationships with Business Communication 
Linda Macdonald (Dalhousie University)
2021
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Building Relationships With Business Communication combines some of the best available open access content for introductory courses in business communication and supplements this content with new material on personal and social identity; rhetorical listening; inclusive language; storytelling; and territorial Land Acknowledgements. The textbook is focused on a Canadian audience of first-year Commerce students. H5P interactive content, the infusion of real-world examples, and an engaging layout make this textbook highly readable for this audience.
Format: Pressbooks webbook
Suggested for:
ADM 2381 Business Communication Skills
Business Communication for Success∗
University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing
2015
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Business Communication for Success (BCS) provides a comprehensive, integrated approach to the study and application of written and oral business communication to serve both student and professor.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, MOBI, and more
Includes: Learning objectives, introductory exercises, key takeaways, in-chapter assignments, and post-chapter assessments
Reviews: Open Textbook Library
Suggested for:
ADM 2381 Business Communications Skills
Business Computers 365∗
Marcus Lacher (Minnesota State Community & Technical College)
2019
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Intro to Computer Applications or Business Computers for Office 365.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook and PDF
Reviews: Open Textbook Library
Suggested for:
ADM 1370 Applications of Information Technology for Business [as supplementary resource]
Business Ethics∗
Stephen M. Byars (USC Marshall School of Business) and Kurt Stanberry (University of Houston-Downtown) (OpenStax)
2018
Licence: CC BY 4.0
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.
Formats: Online and PDF; online LibreTexts version
Includes: Key terms, assessment questions, test bank, and slides
Reviews: Open Textbook Library
Suggested for:
ADM 1101 and ADM 1301 Business and Society
The Business Ethics Workshop∗
James Brusseau (Pace University) (Saylor Foundation)
2012
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
Ethics is about determining value; it’s deciding what’s worth doing and what doesn’t matter so much. Business ethics is the way we decide what kind of career to pursue, what choices we make on the job, which companies we want to work with, and what kind of economic world we want to live in and then leave behind for those coming after. There are no perfect answers to these questions, but there’s a difference between thinking them through and winging it. The Business Ethics Workshop provides a framework for identifying, analyzing, and resolving ethical dilemmas encountered through working life.
Format: PDF
Includes: Learning objectives, key takeaways, and review questions
Reviews: Open Textbook Library
Suggested for:
ADM 1101 and ADM 1301 Business and Society
Business Math: A Step-by-Step Handbook∗
Jean-Paul Olivier (Red Deer College) (Lyryx)
Latest version: 2021-revision A
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Business Mathematics was written to meet the needs of a twenty-first-century student. It takes a systematic approach to help students learn how to think and centers on a structured process termed the PUPP Model (Plan, Understand, Perform, and Present). This process is found throughout the text and in every guided example to help students develop a step-by-step problem-solving approach.
This textbook simplifies and integrates annuity types and variable calculations, utilizes relevant algebraic symbols, and is integrated with the Texas Instruments BAII+ calculator. It also contains structured exercises, annotated and detailed formulas, and relevant personal and professional applications in discussion, guided examples, case studies, and even homework questions.
Format: PDF
Includes: Excel templates, solutions to cases and exercises, online homework problems, and instructor supplements
Reviews: BCcampus
Suggested for:
ADM 1100 and ADM 1300 Introduction to Business
Business Math: A Step-by-Step Handbook Abridged
Sanja Krajisnik, Carol Leppinen, and Jelena Loncar-Vines (Conestoga College)
2022
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
This book provides an introduction to a variety of topics in business math including simple and compound interest, annuities, payment schedules, mortgages, and more. This supplemental textbook covers topics from Chapters 8 to 13 inclusive, adapted from the original Business Math: A Step-by-Step Handbook by J. Olivier and Lyryx Learning Inc. providing extra resources, examples, and storytelling activities.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook and EPUB
Comes with Business Math: A Step by Step Handbook Abridge Instructor Resources available in Pressbooks webbook, PDF, and EPUB
Suggested for:
ADM 1100 and ADM 1300 Introduction to Business
Business Plan Development Guide∗
Lee A. Swanson (University of Saskatchewan)
2017
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0
This textbook and its accompanying spreadsheet templates were designed with and for students wanting a practical and easy-to-follow guide for developing a business plan. It follows a unique format that both explains what to do and demonstrates how to do it.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, and MOBI
Includes: Checklist, project planner, and templates
Reviews: Open Textbook Library
Suggested for:
ADM 2313 The Entrepreneurial Society
ADM 3313 New Venture Creation
Business Startup and Entrepreneurship: Canada
Matthew Pauley (University of Prince Edward Island)
2021
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
This OER textbook focuses on the foundations of entrepreneurship and starting a business. The text is divided from the theoretical underpinnings of the discipline; entrepreneurship traits and characteristics and the activities that precede starting a business.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, and PDF.
Suggested for:
ADM 2313 The Entrepreneurial Society
Communication for Business Professionals – Canadian Edition∗
Ontario Business Faculty and eCampusOntario Program Managers
2018
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0
This book provides a comprehensive, integrated approach to the study and application of written and oral business communication to serve both student and professor. The text includes a number of features such as learning objectives, exercises, real-world examples, key terms, and post-chapter assessments. This text is adapted from Business Communication for Success. This 2018 adaptation has significantly reduced the size and scope of the original publication and added Canadian examples.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, MOBI, and more
Includes: Instructor slides, essay questions, and test bank (under Additional Resources)
Suggested for:
ADM 2381 Business Communications Skills
Data Analytics and Decision Making∗
Ali AbdulHussein (University of Windsor)
2022
Licence: CC BY 4.0
Data analytics is a rapidly evolving field. In today’s labour market, knowing how to acquire, process, and interpret large amounts of data to make optimal decisions is crucial for many professionals, especially those in business and engineering. This open textbook, “a new online course” if you will, focuses on three key concept areas: data acquisition, data processing, and decision-making models. In this course, students will be able to develop advanced knowledge and skills to acquire related data for operations of business or projects; apply quantitative literacy skills such as statistics and machine learning; and use predictive or prescriptive modeling to make timely, actionable, and meaningful decisions.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, and more
Suggested for:
ADM 6287 Business Intelligence Technologies and Big Data Analytics for DTI
Developing Organizational and Managerial Wisdom – 2nd Edition∗
Brad C. Anderson (Kwantlen Polytechnic University)
2020
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
This book presents the results of novel research into the dynamics of values, rationality, and power in organizations. Through this understanding, readers will gain insights and frameworks with which to understand the actions of others within their environment.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook
Includes: Learning objectives, exercises, key takeaways, and chapter summaries
Suggested for:
ADM 2336 Organizational Behaviour
Essentials of Project Management
Adam Farag (Fanshawe College)
2021
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
The Essentials of Project Management is designed specifically for college students enrolled in a business program including business accounting, administration, supply chain and human resources. It describes the project management process and the role of the project manager in implementing such a process. The book is designed to help students build understanding of the importance and applications of project management.
Formats: Pressbook webbook, EPUB and PDF
Includes: Business cases, chapter questions, PowerPoint slides
Suggested for:
ADM 4103 Project Management
Fundamentals of Business: Canadian Edition∗
Business Faculty from Ontario Colleges and eCampusOntario Program Managers
2018
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
An introductory textbook in business that covers a variety of topics: The Foundation of Business, Economics and Business, Ethics and Social Responsibility, Business in a Global Environment, Forms of Business Ownership, Entrepreneurship: Starting a Business, Management and Leadership, Structuring Organizations, Operations Management, Motivating Employees, Management Human Resources, Union/Management Issues, Marketing: Providing Value, Accounting and Financial Information, and Personal Finances.
This textbook was developed by business faculty from Ontario Colleges and from eCampusOntario program managers. It incorporates introductory business topics, from ethics to marketing to entrepreneurship, in a Canadian context. It has received positive faculty reviews.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, MOBI, and more
Includes: Embedded quizzes with solutions, test bank, slides, and essay questions
Reviews: eCampusOntario Open Library – BCcampus
Suggested for:
ADM 1100 and ADM 1300 Introduction to Business
Fundamentals of Business, Fourth Edition∗
Ron Poff and Stephen Skripak (Virginia Tech)
2023
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Fundamentals of Business, 4th edition is an open education resource intended to serve as a no-cost, instructor-customizable primary text for one-semester undergraduate introductory business courses. It covers the following topics in business: Teamwork; economics; ethics; entrepreneurship; business ownership, management, and leadership; organizational structures and operations management; human resources and motivating employees; managing in labor union contexts; marketing and pricing strategy; hospitality and tourism, accounting and finance, and personal finances. The textbook was adapted for use in Virginia Tech’s Pamplin College of Business introductory level business course, MGT1104 Foundations of Business.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, PDF, and EPUB
Includes: Learning objectives, exercises, and key takeaways
Reviews: Open Textbook Library
Suggested for:
ADM 1100 and ADM 1300 Introduction to Business
Fundamentals of Global Strategy
Cornelis A. de Kluyver (University of Oregon) and Saylor Academy
2012
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
Crafting a global strategy requires making decisions about which strategy elements can and should be globalized and to what extent, and de Kluyver’s Fundamentals of Global Strategy can help you illuminate these facts to your students. Fundamentals of Global Strategy poses the following questions for your students to analyze:
- What markets and/or regions should a company compete in and why?
- To what degree can and should products and services be standardized?
- Is it advantageous to adopt a more or less uniform market positioning worldwide?
- What value-added activities should it keep in-house, outsource, or relocate for competitive advantage?
- How can competitive responses be most effectively coordinated on a global basis?
Formats: Online and PDF
Reviews: Open Textbook Library
Suggested for:
ADM 3302 Supply Chain Management
ADM 3318 International Business
Global Business
Jacobus Boers (Georgia State University)
2020
Licence: CC BY 4.0
The material presented in this collection is intended for use in teaching a business course that places all traditional disciplinary business courses in a global context. However, this material could also be valuable to any instructor teaching a course such as global business, international business, leading a study abroad program, or a senior-level disciplinary course with international or global business elements in a business college.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, and MOBI
Suggested for:
ADM 3318 International Business
Good Corporation, Bad Corporation: Corporate Social Responsibility in the Global Economy∗
Guillermo C. Jimenez (Fashion Institute of Technology-SUNY) and Elizabeth Pulos (Worldwide Responsible Accredited Production-WRAP)
2016
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
This textbook provides an innovative, internationally-oriented approach to the teaching of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and business ethics. Drawing on case studies involving companies and countries around the world, the textbook explores the social, ethical, and business dynamics underlying CSR in such areas as global warming, genetically-modified organisms (GMO) in food production, free trade and fair trade, anti-sweatshop and living-wage movements, organic foods and textiles, ethical marketing practices and codes, corporate speech and lobbying, and social enterprise. The book is designed to encourage students and instructors to challenge their own assumptions and prejudices by stimulating a class debate based on each case study.
Formats: Online, PDF, and EPUB
Includes: Case studies, external resources, exercises, applications, and examples
Reviews: Open Textbook Library – eCampusOntario Open Library – BCcampus
Suggested for:
ADM 1101 and ADM 1301 Business and Society
Human Resources Management
University of Minnesota Libraries
2016
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Human Resource Management teaches HRM strategies and theories that any manager—not just those in HR—needs to know about recruiting, selecting, training, and compensating people.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, MOBI, and more.
Reviews: Open Textbooks Library
Suggested for:
ADM 2337 Human Resource Management
Human Resources Management – Canadian Edition
Stéphane Brutus and Nora Baronian (Concordia University)
2020
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Human Resource Management – Canadian Edition introduces students to the basic aspects of managing human resources in a Canadian context. The strategies and theories outlined in this book will be of use to any manager—not just those in HR—who needs to know about recruiting, selecting, training, and compensating people.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, and MOBI
Suggested for:
ADM 2337 Human Resource Management
Human Resources Management – 2nd Ontario Edition
Elizabeth Cameron (Loyalist College)
2021
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Human Resources Management – 2nd Ontario Edition introduces students to the basic aspects of managing human resources in a Canadian context. The strategies and theories outlined in this book will be of use to any manager—not just those in HR—who needs to know about recruiting, selecting, training, and compensating people. Adaptation of Human Resources Management – Canadian Edition.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, and PDF
Suggested for:
ADM 2337 Human Resource Management
Indigenous Lifeways in Canadian Business∗
Russell Evans (University of Windsor), Michael Mihalicz (Toronto Metropolitan University), and Maureen Sterling (University of Windsor)
2022
Licence: CC BY-NC 4.0 (Note: videos are licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
This series introduces important business topics impacting Indigenous students, entrepreneurs, and business leaders in Canada by connecting users to their stories. End-users can link to one or more of the videos, embed the material into their course websites, or download a video to use offline.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, and more
Suggested for:
ADM 1101 and ADM 1301 Business and Society
ADM 2313 The Entrepreneurial Society
Information Systems for Business and Beyond – Canadian Edition
Shauna Roch (Fanshawe College), James Fowler (Mohawk College), and Barbara Smith (Niagara College)
2020
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Information Systems for Business and Beyond – Canadian Edition introduces you to the concept of information systems, their use in business, and the larger impact they are having on our world. This book provides a Canadian context and examples.
Formats: Pressbook webbook, EPUB, and PDF
Includes: Summaries, key terms, and knowledge checks
Suggested for:
ADM 1370 Applications of Information Technology for Business
ADM 2372 Management Information Systems
Intermediate Canadian Tax
Edited by Sam Newton and Wahaj Awan (Kwantlen Polytechnic University)
2021
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
A textbook created by tax students at KPU.
Format: Pressbooks webbook
Suggested for:
ADM 4344 Taxation II
Intermediate Financial Accounting – Volume 1∗
Glenn Arnold and Suzanne Kyle (Athabasca University) (Lyryx)
Version 2020A
Licence: CC BY 4.0
This text is intended for a first course in Intermediate Financial Accounting. It presumes that students have already completed one or two Introductory Financial Accounting courses. The book reflects current International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), such as IFRS 15 – Revenue from Contracts With Customers. It focuses on more difficult intermediate accounting topics that match prerequisite requirements for students advancing to a second level Intermediate Financial Accounting course. Advanced topics that are covered in Advanced Financial Accounting courses, such as consolidations and foreign exchange, are not included here. The text is written with an approachable style that focuses on key concepts that will be relevant to students’ future careers as accountants. The book provides a review of Introductory Accounting concepts and covers all topics essential to a first level Intermediate Accounting course: the conceptual framework and current landscape of financial reporting; statements of financial position, comprehensive income, cash flows and shareholders’ equity; cash and receivables; revenue; inventory; property plant and equipment; intangible assets; and intercorporate investments.
Formats: online, PDF, and EPUB
Includes: Case studies, exercises, and solutions
Reviews: Open Textbook Library
Suggested for:
ADM 2342 Intermediate Accounting I
ADM 3340 Intermediate Accounting II
Intermediate Financial Accounting – Volume 2∗
Glenn Arnold and Suzanne Kyle (Athabasca University) (Lyryx)
Version 2020A
Licence: CC BY 4.0
This text is intended to be the second of two in Intermediate Financial Accounting courses. It presumes that students have already completed the Introductory Financial Accounting, and the first Intermediate Financing Accounting course. The text reflects both current International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and ASPE. This text covers all topics essential to a second level Intermediate Accounting course: current, long-term and complex liabilities, income taxes, pensions, leases, shareholders’ equity, earnings per share, statement of cash flows including the direct approach, effects of changes and errors, and disclosures and analysis. Topics that are covered in Advanced Financial Accounting courses, such as consolidations and foreign exchange, are not included here.
Formats: online, PDF, and EPUB
Includes: Case studies, exercises, and solutions
Reviews: Open Textbook Library
Suggested for:
ADM 2342 Intermediate Accounting I
ADM 3340 Intermediate Accounting II
Introduction to Business∗
Lawrence J. Gitman (San Diego State University), Carl McDaniel (University of Texas, Arlington), Amit Shah (Frostburg State University), Monique Reece, Linda Koffel (Houston Community College), Bethann Talsma (Davenport University and Grand Rapids Community College), and James C. Hyatt (University of the Cumberlands) (OpenStax)
2018
Licence: CC BY 4.0
This OpenStax textbook was developed by a number of business professors from various American institutions. It covers the contents of a traditional introductory business course. Introduction to Business covers the scope and sequence of most introductory business courses. The book provides detailed explanations in the context of core themes such as customer satisfaction, ethics, entrepreneurship, global business, and managing change. Introduction to Business includes hundreds of current business examples from a range of industries and geographic locations, which feature a variety of individuals. The outcome is a balanced approach to the theory and application of business concepts, with attention to the knowledge and skills necessary for student success in this course and beyond.
Formats: Online and PDF; online LibreTexts version
Includes: Key terms, learning outcomes, ethics activities, and critical thinking cases
Reviews: Open Textbook Library – BCcampus
Suggested for:
ADM 1100 and ADM 1300 Introduction to Business
Introduction to Business∗
SUNY Open Textbook Project and Lumen Learning
2017
Licence: Various Creative Commons licences listed at the end of each section and chapter
An open textbook developed by the State University of New York Open Textbook Project. It incorporates all of the concepts of a traditional introductory course.
Format: Online
Includes: Discussion questions, assignments, and instructor resources
Suggested for:
ADM 1100 and ADM 1300 Introduction to Business
Introduction to Entrepreneurship
Katherine Carpenter (Kwantlen Polytechnic University)
2021
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
This course introduces students to entrepreneurship as an approach to life and to create their own careers. Through foundational concepts and frameworks, this course examines entrepreneurship as a process including: entrepreneurial identity, opportunity creation and evaluation, mobilizing resources, and growth. The course is designed around the major stages in this process, and an overview of factors that are key to entrepreneurial success is provided. This resource is rich in multimedia content including video and H5P interactive activities.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, and more.
Suggested for:
ADM 2313 The Entrepreneurial Society
Introduction to Financial Accounting∗
David Annand and Henry Dauderis (Athabasca University) (Lyryx)
Version 2021A
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
This textbook is an adaptation by Athabasca University of the original text written by D. Annand and H. Dauderis. It is intended for use in entry-level college and university courses in financial accounting. A corporate approach is utilized consistently throughout the book. The adapted textbook includes multiple ancillary student and instructor resources. Student aids include solutions to all end-of-chapter questions and problems, and randomly-generated spreadsheet problems that cover key concepts of each chapter. These provide unlimited practice and feedback for students. Instructor aids include an exam bank, lecture slides, and a comprehensive end-of-term case assignment. This requires students to prepare 18 different year-end adjusting entries and all four types of financial statements, and to calculate and analyze 16 different financial statement ratios. Unique versions can be created for any number of individual students or groups.
Formats: online, PDF, and EPUB
Includes: Case studies, practice problems, solutions manual, and additional resources
Reviews: Open Textbook Library – eCampusOntario Open Library
Suggested for:
ADM 1340 Financial Accounting
Introduction to Innovation (Instructor Course Pack)
Kathleen Carpenter (Kwantlen Polytechnic University)
2023
Licence: CC BY-NC 4.0
In this course, students will learn to productively question the status quo, think creatively about solving challenging and complex problems, and innovate opportunities to create value.
Formats: Pressbook webbook and Word
Includes: syllabus, discussion forum prompts
Suggested for:
ADM 4316 Management of Innovation
Introduction to Logistics
Robert Adzija and Michael Kukhta (Conestoga College)
2022
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
This OER is an introduction to logistics with a focus on moving and storing products in supply chains. This resource includes interactive components, activities, and links to external resources that will inspire learners to deepen their understanding of logistics in supply chains.
Format: Pressbooks webbook
Suggested for:
ADM 3301 Operations Management
ADM 3302 Supply Chain Management
Introduction to Marketing I – 2nd Edition and Introduction to Marketing II – 2nd Edition
Nova Scotia Community College Faculty and Lumen Learning
2022
Licence: CC BY 4.0
Designed to teach students the foundational principles of marketing in the digital age, this open textbook uses current case studies and engaging, real-world scenarios to help students recognize and analyze marketing in business as well as in everyday life. Curated OER readings, videos, simulations and other learning activities introduce students to the principles of marketing.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, and more
Suggested for:
ADM 2320 Marketing
Introductory Business Statistics
Alexander Holmes (University of Oklahoma), Barbara Illowsky (De Anza College), and Susan Dean (De Anza College)
2017
Licence: CC BY 4.0
Introductory Business Statistics is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the one-semester statistics course for business, economics, and related majors. Core statistical concepts and skills have been augmented with practical business examples, scenarios, and exercises. The result is a meaningful understanding of the discipline, which will serve students in their business careers and real-world experiences.
Formats: Online and PDF
Includes: Key terms, homework, and solutions
Reviews: Open Textbook Library
Suggested for:
ADM 2303 Statistics for Management
Introductory Business Statistics with Interactive Spreadsheets – 1st Canadian Edition
Mohammad Mahbobi (Thompson Rivers University) and Thomas K. Tiemann (Elon University)
2015, updated 2021
Licence: CC BY 4.0
Introductory Business Statistics with Interactive Spreadsheets – 1st Canadian Edition is an adaptation of Thomas K. Tiemann’s book, Introductory Business Statistics. In addition to covering basics such as populations, samples, the difference between data and information, and sampling distributions, descriptive statistics and frequency distributions, normal and t-distributions, hypothesis testing, t-tests, f-tests, analysis of variance, non-parametric tests, and regression basics, the following information has been added: the chi-square test and categorical variables, null and alternative hypotheses for the test of independence, simple linear regression model, least squares method, coefficient of determination, confidence interval for the average of the dependent variable, and prediction interval for a specific value of the dependent variable. This new edition also allows readers to learn the basic and most commonly applied statistical techniques in business in an interactive way — when using the web version — through interactive Excel spreadsheets. All information has been revised to reflect Canadian content.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, and MOBI
Reviews: BCcampus – Open Textbook Library
Suggested for:
ADM 2303 Statistics for Management
Introductory Canadian Tax
Edited by Sam Newton and Wahaj Awan (Kwantlen Polytechnic University)
2021
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
A textbook created by tax students at KPU.
Format: Pressbooks webbook
Suggested for:
ADM 3345 Taxation I
Leading Innovation
Kerri Shields (Centennial College)
2022
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Innovation today considers the economic, environmental, and/or social sustainability of an innovative initiative from its inception or idea generation through to its commercialization or implementation. This concept applies to many types of innovation such as products, processes, services, technologies, and business models. Companies use innovation as a means to gain a competitive advantage and bring value to business stakeholders. This book introduces business innovation, from incremental innovation such as enhancing the performance of an existing product, service, or process, to radical or disruptive innovation such as one that has a significant impact on a market. The content examines how leaders foster a culture of innovation, how companies turn creativity into innovation, and how innovation transforms not only organizations but economies as well.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, and more
Suggested for:
ADM 4316 Management of Innovation
Liquidity, Markets and Trading in Action: An Interdisciplinary Perspective∗
Deniz Ozenbas (Montclair State University), Michael S. Pagano (Villanova University), Robert A. Schwartz (Baruch College, City University of New York), and Bruce W. Weber (University of Delaware)
2022
Licence: CC BY 4.0
This open access book addresses four standard business school subjects: microeconomics, macroeconomics, finance and information systems as they relate to trading, liquidity, and market structure. It provides a detailed examination of the impact of trading costs and other impediments of trading that the authors call “frictions”. It also presents an interactive simulation model of equity market trading, TraderEx, that enables students to implement trading decisions in different market scenarios and structures. Addressing these topics shines a bright light on how a real-world financial market operates, and the simulation provides students with an experiential learning opportunity that is informative and fun.
Each of the chapters is designed so that it can be used as a stand-alone module in an existing economics, finance, or information science course. Provides students with a deeper understanding of financial market’s influence on economic policy. Describes the range of information systems that support trading and market operations today. Examines the future of trading with artificial intelligence and machine learning. (Description from Springer)
Formats: Online, PDF, and EPUB
Includes: Hands-on computer trading (TraderEx) simulation exercises, discussion questions, and PowerPoint slides
Suggested for:
ADM 2350 Financial Management [as a supporting text]
Management Communication
Management Communications Group, Marriott School of Business (Brigham Young University)
2017 (updated 2021)
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0
Communication is the heart of business. Short emails, complex reports, private chats, impassioned pitches, formal presentations, and team meetings move information and ideas around an organization, define strategy, and drive decisions. Business communication is concise, direct, clear, and compelling.
Formats: Online and PDF
Reviews: Open Textbook Library
Suggested for:
ADM 2381 Business Communication Skills
Managerial Accounting∗
Kurt Heisinger (Sierra College) and Joe Hoyle (University of Richmond) (Saylor Foundation)
2012
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
This textbook focuses on the essential managerial accounting concepts used within organizations for decision-making purposes and covers these concepts in 13 straightforward and concise chapters.
Formats: Online and PDF
Includes: Exercises, problems, cases, spreadsheets applications, and group projects
Reviews: Open Textbook Library
Suggested for:
ADM 2341 Managerial Accounting
Mastering Strategic Management – 1st Canadian Edition
Janice Edwards (College of the Rockies)
2014 (updated 2021)
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Mastering Strategic Management is designed to enhance student engagement in three innovative ways. The first is through visual adaptations of the key content in the book. It is well documented that many of today’s students are visual learners. To meet students’ wants and needs (and thereby create a much better teaching experience for professors), Mastering Strategic Management contains multiple graphic concept pages in every section of every chapter of the book. Think of graphic concept pages as almost like infographics for key concepts in each section. This feature sets Mastering Strategic Management apart from any strategic management book on the market today. The second way the authors capture student interest through their textbook is by using a real-world company as the running example in each chapter. For example, Chapter 1 in Mastering Strategic Management utilizes Blackberry to harness the conceptual coverage of the chapter in a running, corporate, application to which students will relate. The third inventive way Mastering Strategic Management holds the attention of strategic management students is through the “strategy at the movies” feature in each chapter that links course concepts with a popular motion picture. The 1st Canadian Edition is an adaptation of Mastering Strategic Management. Adaptations include Canadian-specific content, images, and references, removal of copyright images, and inclusion of PowerPoints, which can be downloaded from the book’s appendix.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, MOBI, and more.
Reviews: BCcampus
Suggested for:
ADM 4311 Strategic Management
Organizational Behavior
2019
Licence: CC BY 4.0
This OpenStax resource aligns to introductory courses in Organizational Behavior. The text presents the theory, concepts, and applications with particular emphasis on the impact that individuals and groups can have on organizational performance and culture. An array of recurring features engages students in entrepreneurial thinking, managing change, using tools/technology, and responsible management; furthermore, the unique chapter on Social Media and Communication contextualizes the importance and implications of various platforms and communications methods.
Formats: Online and PDF
Includes: Key terms, learning outcomes, review questions, critical thinking cases, and exercises
Reviews: Open Textbook Library
Suggested for:
ADM 2336 Organizational Behaviour
Organizational Behavior
University of Minnesota Libraries
2017
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Organizational Behavior bridges the gap between theory and practice with a distinct ”experiential“ approach.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, MOBI, and more
Reviews: Open Textbook Library
Suggested for:
ADM 2336 Organizational Behaviour
Principles of Accounting – Volume 2 Managerial Accounting∗
Patty Graybeal (University of Michigan-Dearborn), Mitchell Franklin (LeMoyne College), and Dixon Cooper (Ouachita Baptist University) (OpenStax)
2019
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
This OpenStax textbook exposes students to the core concepts of accounting in familiar ways to build a strong foundation that can be applied across business fields. Volume 2 focuses on managerial accounting.
Formats: Online and PDF; online LibreTexts version
Includes: Instructor resources, student resources, PowerPoint slides, applications, exercises, and solutions.
Reviews: Open Textbook Library
Suggested for:
ADM 2341 Managerial Accounting
Principles of Management∗
Anonymous (LibreTexts)
Last updated: 2020
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Principles of Management teaches management principles to tomorrow’s business leaders by weaving three threads through every chapter: strategy, entrepreneurship, and active leadership.
Formats: Online and PDF
Suggested for:
ADM 1100 and ADM 1300 Introduction to Business
Principles of Management∗
David S. Bright (Wright State University) et al. (OpenStax)
2019
Licence: CC BY 4.0
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.
Formats: Online and PDF; online LibreTexts version
Includes: Key terms, learning outcomes, chapter review questions, managerial decision exercises, managerial skills application exercises, and critical thinking cases
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ADM 1100 and ADM 1300 Introduction to Business
Principles of Managerial Accounting∗
Christine Jonick (University of North Georgia)
2017
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0
A textbook on managerial accounting, peer-reviewed by academic professionals and tested by students.
Format: PDF
Includes: Over 100 charts and graphs, instructional exercises in-text and for Excel, and resources for student professional development
Suggested for:
ADM 2341 Managerial Accounting
Principles of Managerial Accounting
Patricia Goedl (University of Cincinnati)
2020
Licence: CC BY 4.0
Users learn fundamental managerial accounting principles by reading about the concepts in the text immediately followed by watching short videos where the concepts are applied in demonstration problems. Each chapter contains detailed written explanations of fundamental managerial accounting concepts such as cost behavior, cost classifications, job costing, cost volume profit analysis, incremental decision making, budgeting, and variance analysis.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, and PDF
Includes: videos, practice problems, glossary
Suggested for:
ADM 2341 Managerial Accounting
Principles of Marketing
University of Minnesota Libraries
2013; 2022 (H5P Edition)
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Principles of Marketing teaches the experience and process of actually doing marketing—not just the vocabulary. It carries five dominant themes throughout in order to expose students to marketing in today’s environment: Service dominant logic, sustainability, ethics and social responsibility, global coverage, and metrics. This book includes a test bank created by Michael Orwick. The more recent H5P Edition includes over 75 interactive activities.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, MOBI, and more
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ADM 2320 Marketing
Procurement in the Supply Chain World
Angela Reid-Regier and Bryan Snage (Conestoga College)
2022
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
This book guides students through the important aspects of procurement. Readers will learn what procurement is, the different strategies involved in procurement, how to find and select suppliers, how to manage suppliers, how to evaluate whether to outsource, how to manage subcontractors, how to evaluate and manage global suppliers and how to be an ethical procurement professional.
Format: Pressbooks webbook
Suggested for:
ADM 3302 Supply Chain Management
Project Management – 2nd Edition
Adrienne Watt (British Columbia Institute of Technology)
2014
Licence: CC BY 4.0
This book covers the basics of project management. This includes the process of initiation, planning, execution, control and close out that all projects share. The adaptation includes Canadian content, slides, audio files, and chapter questions, which are located in the book’s appendices.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, MOBI, and more
Reviews: Open Textbook Library – BCcampus
Suggested for :
ADM 4103 Project Management
Statistics 250 – Introduction to Statistics and Data Analysis∗
Brenda Gunderson (University of Michigan)
Revised September 2015
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
Statistics is the science that turns data into information and information into knowledge. This class covers applied statistical methodology from an analysis-of-data viewpoint. Topics covered include frequency distributions; measures of location; mean, median, mode; measures of dispersion; variance; graphic presentation; elementary probability; populations and samples; sampling distributions; one sample univariate inference problems, and two sample problems; categorical data; regression and correlation; and analysis of variance. Use of computers in data analysis is also explored.
Formats: PDF and Word
Includes: Workbooks and lecture notes
Suggested for:
ADM 2303 Statistics for Management
ADM 2304 Applications of Statistical Methods in Business
Strategic Management
Adapted by Reed Kennedy (Virginia Tech)
2020
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
Strategic Management offers an introduction to the key topics and themes of strategic management. The authors draw on examples of familiar companies and personalities to illustrate the different strategies used by today’s firms—and how they go about implementing those strategies. Students will learn how to conduct a case analysis, measure organizational performance, and conduct external and internal analyses. In short, they will understand how organizations operate at the strategic level to be successful.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, online, EPUB, MOBI, and PDF
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ADM 4311 Strategic Management
The Sustainable Business Case Book∗
Ross Gittell, Matt Magnusson, and Michael Merenda (University of New Hampshire) and Saylor Academy
2012
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
The Sustainable Business Case Book provides readers with a broad overview of the core concepts of sustainability and sustainable business practice. It is intended for use in undergraduate business courses and will also be of interest to students in environmental studies, engineering, urban planning, and government. This book is not meant to exhort all business people on the path to sustainability enlightenment but to highlight some of the benefits, opportunities, and challenges associated with sustainable business practices.
What distinguishes this book is that it provides a conceptual foundation to promote understanding of sustainability concepts and frameworks and also discusses real-world business examples of sustainability in action. It is believed that this is the best way to teach sustainability as it applies to the business world—a conceptual foundation with practical application.
Sustainable business involves businesses operating with interest and concern for their long-term economic, environmental, and social impact. For-profit businesses focus first and foremost on their own economic bottom line, oftentimes, with a short-term perspective. However, with a sustainability perspective, businesses also consider a longer-term and broader triple bottom line that takes into account not only company profits but also environmental and social impacts. The economic, environmental, and social perspectives are increasingly interrelated and relevant for businesses.
Formats: Online and PDF
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ADM 1101 and ADM 1301 Business and Society
ADM 4317 Leadership, Strategy and Sustainability
MBA Program (MBA) and Executive MBA Program (ADX)
Accounting in the Finance World∗
Anonymous (LibreTexts)
Last updated: December 2020
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
This book is intended for an undergraduate or MBA level Financial Accounting course. It covers the standard topics in a standard sequence, utilizing the Socratic method of asking and answering questions. Note: Supplement with information about differences between IFRS and US GAAP.
Formats: Online and PDF
Includes: End of chapter exercises, examples, embedded videos, and summaries
Suggested for:
MBA 5140 Financial Accounting Information and Decisions I
MBA 5141 Financial Accounting Information and Decisions II
MBA 5340 Financial Accounting
ADX 5240 Financial Accounting Information and Decisions
Statistics 250 – Introduction to Statistics and Data Analysis∗
Brenda Gunderson (University of Michigan)
Revised September 2015
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
Statistics is the science that turns data into information and information into knowledge. This class covers applied statistical methodology from an analysis-of-data viewpoint. Topics covered include frequency distributions; measures of location; mean, median, mode; measures of dispersion; variance; graphic presentation; elementary probability; populations and samples; sampling distributions; one sample univariate inference problems, and two sample problems; categorical data; regression and correlation; and analysis of variance. Use of computers in data analysis is also explored.
Formats: PDF and Word
Includes: Workbooks and lecture notes
Suggested for:
MBA 5300 Data Analysis
ADX 5101 Decision Making with Data: Inferential Analysis
