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Collection Policy Outline

General Purpose:

To serve undergraduates enrolled in the B.Comm. program or otherwise studying commerce, and graduates enrolled in the MBA and the Ph.D. programs; to serve faculty and students for research in depth in business administration, management and related fields.

Languages:

English is the preferred language. Other languages are collected to fulfill special needs.

Geographical Areas:

Emphasis is on North America, but materials are collected pertaining to international and national business throughout the world.

Chronological Limits:

The present is emphasized, but materials pertaining specifically to business at any point in history are collected.

Type of Material Collected:

• Books: monographs; bibliographies; conference proceedings; etc.
• Serial Publications: series; periodicals
• R & D reports
• pamphlets
• government documents
• corporate reports
• indexing and abstracting services Note: any of the above may be in print, microform, or electronic format

Subjects and Collecting Levels:

(Explanation of Collection Policy Levels)

Areas to be collected at level B:

• Social and behavioural aspects of accounting, including institutional, organizational and individual level studies of the development and use of accounting expertise and accounting information.
• The historical development of accounting standards, regulations, practice and institutions in Canada. Operations research including applications of operations research modelling to decision-making, mathematical programming, transportation and logistics models, sequencing and scheduling, and decision theory.
• Computing-related operations research, including design of algorithms for NP complete problems, parallel processing algorithms, and global optimization.
• Artificial intelligence and expert systems.
• Management information systems, management decision support systems, and data resource management systems.
• Mathematical models of organizations and organizational processes; multi-level, hierarchical, adaptive, learning, and pattern-recognizing models for organizations.
• Economic analysis of investment decisions under multi-period uncertainty.
• Studies of the functioning of Canada's capital markets and those of the United States.
• Ethics related to business decisions, both Canadian and foreign, including cultural imperatives and historical context.

Areas to be collected at level C:

• Accounting: fundamentals of financial and cost accounting, capital budgeting, pricing, accounting models.
• Business and commercial law.
• Business economics: competitive situations and markets, microeconomics and macroeconomics. Business policy, including government policies toward business and their impact on private policy formation, in Canada and in the major nations trading with Canada; global development and environmental issues in business policy.
• Economic geography.
• Finance and investment: financing and investment decisions of the firm, budgeting, financial management; fiscal and monetary policies, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, buyouts and takeovers; banking and financial institutions in Canada and major trading nations ; investment strategies and portfolio management; organization of investment activities and investment management firms.
• Industrial psychology: human behaviour in business, individuals and groups acting in the context of business, basic theory of behavioural sciences, the art of decision-making.
• Information systems: their planning, implementation and control.
• International business: environments, trading relationships, multinational firms, investment, control systems, marketing.
• Management science related to decision-making.
• Marketing: marketing management, strategy, environment within Canadian economy, effective programs, industrial marketing, procurement, purchasing, advertising, sales management, public relations, data gathering, sampling, experimental design, retailing advertising, sales promotion, market research, marketing statistics.
• Multivariate statistics.
• Organization: organizational and administrative behaviour.
• Production: decisions, management operations, product development and design, plant location and layout, project planning and control, production control, quality control, personnel and materials management.
• Taxation: the Canadian tax system, emphasizing income tax.
• Transportation management: shipment of goods, travel behaviour, forecasting of demand, traffic control, economics of transportation, influence on urban and regional growth.

Policy last revised: 1997/1998