BUAD 346 Sustainable Management

When searching for topics using Octopus and the Library databases, developing a variety of search terms and synonyms will help you find the best sources.  Below are some search terms to help you get started, but the more synonyms/searches you do, the more things you will find!

• green business
• "business sustainability"
• "business ethics"
• "sustainable enterprise"
• human resources AND sustainability
• marketing AND sustainability
• accounting AND sustainability
• business AND "environmental sustainability"
• management AND "environmental sustainability"

• Use quotations around phrases to group ideas together

• Example: “marijuana policy”

• AND, OR, NOT

• Example: marijuana AND policy

             marijuana OR cannabis

             Canada NOT America

Adding keywords using AND = less results

Adding keywords using OR = more results

           Adding keywords using NOT = less results

•  * at the end of a root / to replace a letter

• Example: industr* = industry, industries, industrial, etc...

    wom*n = woman, women

•  Use Advanced Search limiters (resource type, geography, date, etc.)