Business Annotated Bibliographies Samples For Students

Annotated Bibliography

Anderson, M. & Ramos-Reid, R. (2011) Core competence-definition and dynamics in the not-for-profit sector. School of Management Blekinge Institute of Technology Sweden.

The study is among the few that treats the subject of core-competences (core capabilities) within the nonprofit sector, explaining how it applies to the not-for-profit operations. The core competences concept is related to the added value notion, and the authors of this study aim to identify how nonprofit organizations can generate added value by optimizing their internal resources. Developing a multi-case study analysis, the book identifies that nonprofit operations follow the same patterns as for profit organizations for ...

Abstract

In an attempt to discuss the aspects of how marketing and advertisements have shaped people’s psychology, mood and attitude, a number of the preexisting literatures have been reviewed as a way of attempting out the severity and the gravity of the matter. There are quite a lot about the issues, with some touching on the currents trends, some digging into the issue of IMC and impact of social media. However, the topic still calls for a number of researches from the scholars and other practitioners.

Anghelcev, George, and Sela Sar. "In the Mood for the Right Kind of Social Marketing Communication." Journal of Social Marketing 4.1 (2014): 38-57. ProQuest. 10 Oct. 2014

In the above journal, George Anghelcev and Sela Sar argue that how effective a social marketing communication is ...

Annotated referencing

Hollis, N. (2013). The meaningful brand: how strong brands make more money. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.
The book tries to identify how the brand of the product has been used by the marketers to unlock the financial development and growth in value. The meaningful and differentiated strategy has been the order of the current market hence making it a hypercompetitive. The book tries to point out the best strategies employed to cater and in fetching high prices. Brands of the products are differentiated in a manner of finding the appropriate large market share. This is in the objective of getting ...

Blackburn, M., Busser, R. & Nauman A. (2001). Removing Requirement Defects and Automating Test. Software Productivity Consortium NFP

This article underscores the problems that impede operations and growth. In this regard, the article discusses model based approaches to reducing defects in the production process. The article discusses the use of model-based approaches in order to reduce defects, reworks and rejects in order to increase scheduled savings and reduce costs. Automation of development and tests is important in the production process. According to the authors of the article, automation in this way helps reduce resources and time in an attempt to develop high quality production systems. This article is important for this topic as it gives a different perspective ...

Annotated Bibliography

Introduction
Ethics is important in any professional body. This paper focuses on some of the ethical studies done on urban development in regional and town planning. Through the paper, one will examine some of the sources that will be used while dealing with the mentioned topic. Most of the sources that have been used in this annotated bibliography are American. This is because one believes America has a more ethical background in ethical issues dealing with urban development. In addition, the chosen articles are more relevant and deeply researched making them more appropriate for the study. By using American ...

Smoking has already been identified by numerous publications and journals as one of the top risk factors for the development of heart and cardiopulmonary diseases. This rationale has been used by policy makers to make policies and ordinances that prohibit the act of smoking tobacco products in public places. Unfortunately, some countries are yet to follow suit. Their ordinances and legislations’ laxity against the spread of second hand smoke are evidenced by the fact that smoking in public places are not yet fully enforced. In an academic journal published in the Journal of American Association in 2006, the authors ...

Coghlan, A., & Pearce, P. (2010). Tracking affective components of satisfaction. Tourism and

One doctoral study research student and a professor at James Cook University in Queensland, Australia undertook to answer questions about links between what motivates tourists in their activities, by tracking affective components of satisfaction. The study selects a number of tourists on dynamic volunteer tourism expeditions. The methodology used was participant long form entry in a diary written communication and analyzed in the group and individual settings. The researchers tried to look for patterns in general levels of satisfactions and how this changed over time, and linked to personality characteristics and daily activity. The study concluded that satisfaction levels do not always ...

Annotated Bibliography on Employee Training in Small Buisness

Panagiotakopoulos, A. (2012). Staff “poaching” in the small business context: overcoming this key barrier to training. Industrial and Commercial Training, 44(6), 326-333. DOI 10.1108/00197851211254752

The researcher has used a case study approach to achieve the objectives of the research, and used both secondary data such as company reports, records, etc. and in depth interview to gather firsthand information from the employees of two organizations. Other than salary, the factors such as job autonomy, involvement in decision making, intense work environment and cordial working atmosphere motivate the employees and gain their loyalty to the organization. There is limited scope ...

Introduction

This paper demonstrates in detail on the outcome of divorce on a child. It entails that as a result of divorce, it brings about insecurity on the child, and it can also cause a child to become vulnerable when dealing with relationships of their own. A child tends to have a desire to be wanted, and hence this shows that children go through negative implications as a result of divorce (Das, 2011). Furthermore, divorce contributes to unhappiness among children as they are exposed to a high level of discrepancy from their co-parents before and after separation. This is so as a child has a tendency to have ...