LibGuides: Open Educational Resources (OER): Business

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Monopoly Gas Station is a simulation activity by Mark Maier, Professor of Economics at Glendale Community College. In the simulation, "students predict the profit-maximizing price for gas at the one and only gas station in desert community. Then using data on demand and cost, they find the profit maximizing price and graph the result."

Textbook Collections

MERLOT
This subset of the MERLOT collection features openly licensed textbooks for use by students and faculty.
Open Textbook Library
The Open Textbook Library is a collection of open textbooks that features reviews written by professors.
College Open Textbooks
The College Open Textbooks Collaborative is focused on driving awareness and adoptions of open textbooks to more than 2000 community and other two-year colleges.
B.C. Open Collection
The B.C. Open Textbook Project is funded by the BC Ministry of Advanced Education to provide flexible and affordable access to higher education resources.

Business Textbooks

Business Plan Development Guide
This textbook and its accompanying spreadsheet templates were designed with and for students wanting a practical and easy-to-follow guide for developing a business plan.
eMarketing: The Essential Guide to Marketing in a Digital World
The newly updated edition - based on Quirk's unique Think, Create, Engage, Optimise structure and processes - includes chapters on the latest marketing trends as well as updated facts and figures and all new real-world case studies showing the application of digital best practice.
Create or Perish: The Case for Inventions and Patents
This textbook is the primary book used in the MIT course Inventions and Patents. It explores the history of private and public rights in scientific discoveries and applied engineering, leading to the development of worldwide patent systems.
Business Law and the Legal Environment
This textbook provides context and essential concepts across the entire range of legal issues with which managers and business executives must grapple.

OpenStax Textbooks

Accounting and Finance
Accounting and finance textbooks that are free, customizable, and can be accessed anytime, anywhere.
Business Law and Ethics
Free business ethics, business law, and intellectual property textbooks that can be viewed online, downloaded as a PDF, and come with additional free educational resources.
Business Statistics
Free business statistics and principle of data science textbooks that teach core statistical concepts and skills through the use of practical business examples, scenarios, and exercises.
Introduction to Business
Free online introduction to business textbook that covers the core content featured in most introductory business courses, diving into themes like customer satisfaction, ethics, entrepreneurship, global business, and change management.
Management and Marketing
Entrepreneurship, organizational behavior, management, and marketing textbooks that are free, flexible, and can be viewed online and downloaded as a PDF.

OpenStax is the world’s largest publisher of open education resources (OER) and a provider of interactive learning technologies and education research for high school and college.