Answered By: Colleen Mullally
Last Updated: Jul 18, 2023     Views: 311

Finding Business Case Studies 

You can find lots of case studies to use in your projects and papers using several of our library databases and an open source journal. 

Please note, if you are looking for Harvard Business School (HBS)Cases, they are separately published from Harvard Business School Publishing and HBS cases are not available via the library. See our FAQ on HBS cases for more details. 

From the library's home page (http://library.pepperdine.edu), click on the magnifying glass icon Databases & E-Journals

On the Databases & E-Journals page, you'll be looking at Business Source Complete  This database can be found alphabetically and also listed under the subject Business/Economics. Select the database and log in with your Wavenet credentials.


Using Business Source Premier to Search for Case Studies

There are two ways of searching for case studies using Business Source Premier. Many students are familiar with Harvard Business Review. While Business Source Premier does not provide access to cases from Harvard Business School, Business Source Premier does provide case studies from Harvard Business Review! Please note, if you are looking for Harvard Business School Cases, these are separately published from Harvard Business School Publishing. HBS cases are not available via the library. See our FAQ on HBS cases for more details. The image below shows how to search by doing a publication name search for "Harvard Business Review" with "case studies" as a subject term.

More case studies are available beyond Harvard Business Review and there's a way to quickly access these. When using Business Source Premier, choose "case study" from Document Type and then enter a keyword or phrase in the search box. See the below screenshot.


 

Using the Open Access Journal from the Society for Case Research

One final option for locating case studies is to use the open access journal from the Society for Case Research called Journal of Case Studies. This is an open source journal which provides direct access to the full-text of the articles. Users may browse by issue or search by keyword. Journal of Case Studies (as described by Cabell's Journalytics) publishes "peer-reviewed case studies of real world business problems designed for faculty and students to adopt for usage in the classroom." 

You will have to sign up for a free account to use this resource.