Retail Management

Starting your Research

Starting your Research

Encyclopedias, handbooks and subject specific dictionaries will help provide useful background information, as well as terms to use when searching the databases. For example:

Ayers, J. B., & Odegaard, M. A. (2008). Retail supply chain management. Boca Raton: Auerbach Publications.	Jacobsen, M. L. (2009). The art of retail buying: An insider's guide to best practices from the industry. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons (Asia).
Alexander, N. & Doherty, A. M. (2009). International retailing. Oxford: Oxford University Press.	Stern, N. Z. & Ander, W. N. (2008). Greentailing and other revolusions in retail: Hot ideas that are grabbing customers' attention and raising profits. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley.

A GOOGLE search can also help find background information and suggestions for more keywords.

Keywords & OPAC

Keywords & OPAC

Use OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue) to find books, journal titles and audio-visual materials in the Library. When searching for information, you need to use keywords. See below for some suggestions.

Business logistics	Franchises	Greentailing
Industrial procurement	International trade	Merchandising
Purchasing	Retail trade	Retail trade accounting
Retail trade management	Retail trade periodicals	Small business management

Search OPAC now

Finding Articles Online

Finding Articles Online

The articles inside magazines, journals & periodicals are very useful sources of information. Articles are different from books because:

• they are much more up-to-date
• they are shorter (less to read!)
• they concentrate on topics or specific aspects of topics
• there are many articles being published all the time so you have more choice.

The library catalogue, OPAC, does NOT tell you what articles the Library has, only which journals or periodicals, so the easiest way to find articles is to use the online databases.

• Academic Search Premier

• Business Source Premier

• MAS Ultra: School Edition

• Regional Business News

• Global Market Information Database (GMID)

Speciality Searches from Business Source Premier

• Country Reports - for reviews of countries, including economic studies and political risk.
• Company Profiles - for Datamonitor reports.
• Industry Profiles - for identifying the competitive landscape, market size, and more.
• Market Research Reports - for news and analyses on major events in specified markets.
• SWOT Analyses - looking at strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats within specified companies.

Newspaper Articles

Newspaper articles are also very useful sources of information, and can be found in the LexisNexis Academic and the Factiva databases.

• Factiva (Dow Jones)

• LexisNexis Academic

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Click here for a list of all the databases subscribed to by TP Library.

Recommended Websites

Recommended Websites

Action Community for Entrepreneurship - Good website for budding entrepreneurs.

Singapore Retailers Association - Get the latest updates from SRA through this potal.

SPRING Singapore - SPRING Singapore is a governmental agency dedicated to the promotion of Singapore's economic growth and productivity. The site includes statistics and information on services as well as information for entrepreneurs.

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