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Business: Case Studies

This guide was designed to help you find relevant and authoritative materials during the research process.

Free Business Case Studies

This is not intended to be an exhaustive guide. Only the free resources that are relatively user friendly and provide current case studies for teaching and learning have been selected for inclusion.

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 A note on search terms when searching for Indigenous business topics

Researching Indigenous business topics unfortunately involves using holdover terms from racist, colonial periods, alongside current vocabulary that aims to develop a respectful relationship with Indigenous communities.  

As a result, finding resources about Indigenous Peoples in Canada can be difficult and frustrating. Students may encounter subject terms such as Aboriginal, Indigenous, Native, and even Indian, as well as terms for specific Indigenous communities and nations. Aside from any discussion of the appropriateness or accuracy of some of these terms, their sheer inconsistency is a barrier to effective searching. Librarians are working on cleaning this mess up, but since these are standard terms used across thousands of libraries, substantial changes will take some time.

Teaching Cases in Academic Journals

Publishes case studies designed for use in business and economics courses. Many cases feature real companies operating in various countries. The journal content is not indexed in Business Source Complete.

Published by Academic and Business Research Institute to share cases (factual and fictionalized) and exercises developed for classroom use in any area of business education. Teaching notes, if included, are published with the case manuscript. The journal content is not indexed in Business Source Complete.

Facilitating the exchange of ideas leading to the improvement of case research, writing, and teaching, the Society for Case Research (SCR) publishes three scholarly journals below to provide up-to-date cases. All case studies are peer reviewed. No fictionalized cases; only field-researched cases and cases based on substantial research from secondary sources are accepted for publication.

Includes “decision-based cases,” which place students in the role of a decision-maker and ask them to make recommendations appropriate to the context of the situation, and descriptive case studies, which provide descriptions of real situations.

Publishes both decision-based and descriptive cases, as Business Case Journal does.

No long cases – the maximum length is three single-spaced pages. JCI's focus is on brief incidents that tell about real situations. Each incident tells a story about an event, an experience, a blunder, or a success. Unlike long cases, incidents provide only essential historical details and limited situation development, with a focal point that stimulates students to arrive at a course of action or analysis. Most incidents are decision oriented.

Open Access Cases

Indigenous Business Case Studies