Management

Introduction
Selection criteria
Collection development policy review for Management

Introduction

The Department of Management was established at LSE in 2006, comprising the following departments – Industrial Relations, Operational Research, Information Systems and the Interdisciplinary Institute of Management.  These now constitute the following groups within the new federally organised department. They are –

Employment Relations and Organisational Behaviour Group

Information Systems and Innovation Group

Managerial Economics and Strategy Group

Operational Research Group

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Selection criteria

The Library has collected extensively print books and journals in management from a social science perspective, and related subjects in English published in the UK and USA and will continue to do so, both for teaching and research. This includes:

• Organisational behaviour and change management
• Managerial economics
• Corporate strategy
• Business and public policy
• Global and cross cultural management
• Innovation
• Human resources management
• Information systems

In areas such as information systems and operational research collection policy for has been selective, with an emphasis on economic and political aspects.

Requests are welcomed from academic staff and students via the online book request form. http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/borefo.htm  In the case of journals priority is given to titles required for teaching, as resources permit.

The range of information available for management is extended by providing access to electronic resources including bibliographical databases (e.g.Econlit), full text journals (e.g.EBSCO Busines Source Premier) and financial and market datasets (e.g. FAME, AMADEUS, and GMID). The Library aims to expand its coverage of databases for management as funds are made available.

For more information see the Collection Development policies for three of the groups within the department –

Employment Relations and Organisational Behaviour Group

Information Systems and Innovation Group

Operational Research Group

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Collection development policy review for Management

This collection development policy will be reviewed on a regular basis in the light of the following: developments in teaching, the interests of the Department and other departments in the School, and relationships with other libraries with whom collaborative arrangements exist. Such reviews will be conducted in co-operation with each constituent group within the Department of Management.

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Revised 07/07