The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups
Subject Guide
Why use this guide?
This Critical Writing Program guide will help you to:
- Read a citation
- Find books and articles using citations and keywords
- Choose the best scholarly resources for your topic
- Get personalized assistance!
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Background Resources
- International Encyclopedia of Behavioral & Social SciencesIncludes summaries of a wide range of research areas in the social sciences.
How to Read a Citation
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Book citations generally show a publisher, city of publication, and year. Book chapters will include the title of the chapter as well as the name of the book. • Kotter, John P., and James L. Heskett, Corporate Culture and Performance. New York : Free Press, 1992. • Mair, Johanna. "Entrepreneurial Behavior in a Large Traditional Firm: Exploring Key Drivers" In Corporate Entrepreneurship and Venturing, edited by.Tom Elfring, 49-72. : New York: Springer, 2005. |
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Article citations have a journal/periodical title in addition to the article title. They will usually also show a volume and issue number, page numbers, and may show a date, or month or season (e.g., Winter), plus year. • Gordon, G, G., DiTomaso, N. 1992. "Predicting corporate performance from organizational culture." Journal of Management Studies, 29, 783-799
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Using Citations to Find Articles
If you have a complete article citation, you can search Articles+ to find the full text of your article.
No luck? That doesn't mean we don't have access to the article - it could be in print! Try using the PennText Article Finder as a next step. If the print is not available at Penn, there will be an option to request a scan of the article through Interlibrary Loan.
To find the full-text of an article, enter the journal name into the PennText article finder. A pop-up box will give you options to access the article online, in print, or the option to request through Interlibrary Loan.
Using Citations to Find Books
If your citation is a book, use Franklin, the Library catalog. Franklin will help you find the library in which the book is located, and the call number.
You can search for a specific book by title, author, or ISBN. You can also do a keyword or subject keyword search to find books on a particular topic. To find books at other libraries in the US and around the world, there is WorldCat. To get a copy of a book that Penn does not own, or is charged out to another reader, you can request books from EZBorrow (mainly Pennsylvania academic libraries) or BorrowDirect (the Ivies+ group).
Other important resources for finding books at Penn:
Keyword Searching
This document suggests a good method of crafting effective keyword searches:
Scholarly Databases
These databases will help you find scholarly articles about your topic.
- Articles+Articles+ searches through many of our Penn-subscribed journals, and brings you results all in one place.
- Google ScholarAccess to Google Scholar with Penn-only links to full-text articles. Once authenticated through Penn's proxy, full-text articles to which Penn Libraries subscribe will become available within the Google Scholar search results.
- EBSCO MegaFILEGeneral, multidisciplinary periodical database, covering all scholarly disciplines, with many general and popular magazines, and news sources. Includes bibliographic citations with indexing and abstracts for more than 16,000 periodicals.
- ABI/INFORM GlobalContent from more than 3,600 business and management publications worldwide with full text articles for over 2,000 titles. Coverage starts from 1971.
- Business Source CompleteBibliographic and full text content, including indexing and abstracts for scholarly business journals back as far as 1886. Full text content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles,
- APA PsycInfoThe American Psychological Association's comprehensive indexing and abstracting service for the professional and scholarly literature in psychology and related fields. Coverage is worldwide. Sources are in English and over thirty languages.
- Sociological AbstractsCovers sociology, case work, demographics, policy studies, political science, family studies, feminist studies, and social security programs.