Business case studies outline fictitious or real-life scenarios faced by sectors and industries, managers and companies. Cases are frequently used within Business subject disciplines for teaching, research and problem solving. As a student, you may be asked to analyse a case study or produce one for an assignment.
Aston University Library provide access to business cases, with the ability to browse or search by theme, keyword and industry. Case studies can also be found in books, journals and freely online.
Access Business Source Complete and enter your topic within the search box.
To ensure you are only accessing case studies then add another search line with "case studies" and change the drop down option to search within Subject Terms. e.g.
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Quick Start Help Guide
You can embed a talk in to Blackboard, a PowerPoint presentation, Word document, or an email. Once you choose to embed you have the following options:
You can embed a link/thumbnail to your application by highlighting the thumbnail (either manually or by clicking ‘select preview’) and then use the keyboard to copy & paste it into your application. Alternatively, you can drag and drop the thumbnail directly into your application.
You can embed a video of the talk by copying and pasting the HTML code in to your application.
For more information please view the guides below:
To find case studies in ProQuest, click the Advanced Search link under the search box on the main page. Once you're in Advanced Search
The SAGE Business Cases database is a platform that provides access to over 2,500 business case studies, which cover a variety of topics and industries focusing on global brands and companies.
Subjects covered includes:
Information for Lecturers
SAGE Business Cases provides teaching notes for academics. These suggest teaching strategies, target audience and possible responses to discussion questions that can help facilitate classroom discussion.
For academics to access the teaching notes, we will require an access code. Please email n.dennis@aston.ac.uk to obtain this.
You will then need to have a personal profile set up on the Sage Knowledge platform. You can set this up by clicking on “My Profile” which is located in top right hand corner of Sage platform screen. In the “My Profile” tab, you need to enter your details and then tick the box next to “SAGE Business Cases Instructor Access” and enter the access code. This should then mean when you try and view any teaching notes associated to a case study, you will now have access.
Please note not all case studies have teaching notes attached to them.
Case studies on companies and industries are sometimes used with academic textbooks. The names of the case studies are usually highlighted in the contents page of the textbook.
Option 1: Use Library Search to find a print textbook on your main topic. Look through the contents page of the book to see if the Author used case studies as examples.
Option 2: Go to the books tab of the LibGuide and search within the e-book databases. You can search within the full text of the books on the database.
Case studies
WARC publishes cases studies of marketing excellence from all over the world, covering every marketing discipline. WARC’s Knowledge content includes our popular Best Practice series of ‘How to’ and ‘What we know about’ papers, a monthly Admap report on specific themes and topics, as well as a growing collection of Trend Snapshots. Together, these offer guidance, advice and insight on a vast array of marketing, advertising, technology and media topics.