Business Resources
Search Databases
- Biznar Search engine from Deep Web Technologies that searches multiple business resources with a single search
- EconPapers search for Economics working papers, a subset of the RePEc database
- European Working Papers in Business and Economics from major European business schools
- Factbrowser find statistics and facts about companies, technologies, consumers
- Ideas the largest bibliographic database dedicated to Economics and available freely on the Internet
- OpenCorporates the open database of the corporate world
- RePEc Research Papers in Economics
- SSRN Social Science Research Network consists of two parts: an Abstract Database containing abstracts on over 514,500 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an Electronic Paper Collection currently containing over 420,800 downloadable full text documents in Adobe Acrobat pdf format.
Websites
Hypergrid Business discussion about virtual reality and the many virtual worlds
Nonprofits in Second Life a vibrant community in Second Life
Working knowledge Harvard Business School faculty working papers are accessible here
Research Articles
Acquisition of Ownership Inside Virtual Worlds by Wian Erlank. Vol. 46 De Jure (2013). Available on SSRN.
Communication in virtual world: Second life and business opportunities by Gajendra Sharma et al. Vol. 15 Issue 4 Information Systems Frontiers, Sept. 2013. Abstract available.
The Gamification of Work by Miriam A. Cherry. 40 Hofstra Law Review 851 (2012); Saint Louis U. Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2013-17. Research paper can be viewed on SSRN.
Is avatar-to-avatar communication as effective as face-to-face communication? An Ultimatum Game experiment in First and Second Life. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization by Ben Greine, et al. Vol. 108 Dec. 2014.
Real Taxes on Virtual Currencies: What Does the IRS Say? by Nika Antonikova. Vol. 34 Virginia Law Review (2014). Available on SSRN.
Successful education for AEC professionals: case study of applying immersive game-like virtual reality interfaces by Farzad Pour Rahimian, Tomasz Arciszewski and Jack Steven Goulding. Visualization in Engineering Vol. 2 Issue 4, 2014. Article can be viewed here.
Virtual Currencies: Bitcoin & What Now after Liberty Reserve, Silk Road, and Mt. Gox? by Lawrence J. Trautman. Richmond Journal of Law and Technology, Vol. 20, No. 4, 2014, Article can be viewed on SSRN
Walking the Thirteenth Floor: The Taxation Of Virtual Economies by Byron M. Huang. Vol. 17 Yale Journal of Law and Technology. 2015. Available on SSRN.
What Can Human Resource Management Learn from Video Games? An Ethnographical Approach to World of Warcraft by Tobias M. Scholz. September 15, 2011. Article can be viewed on SSRN.
Open Access Business Journals
Electronic Journal of Business Research Methods an open access journal
Electronic Journal of Information Systems Evaluation an open access journal
Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management an open access journal
IBIMA Publishing browse and search a collection of open access journals
Books
Brand Avatar: translating virtual branding into real world success by Alycia de Mesa. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. View publisher information here.
Doing the Right Thing: A Value Based Economy by Arjo Klamer. Ubiquity Press, 2017. Read this book for free at Ubiquity Press.
Marketing in Virtual Worlds by Natalie T. Wood. Prentice-Hall, 2011. View publisher information here.
Regulating Markets: A BIT of Virtual Economies by By Vili Lehdonvirta and Edward Castronova. MIT Press, 2014. Original digital edition is available for a free download as a .zip file.
Synthetic Worlds. Emerging technologies in education and economics series, edited by Andreas Hebbel-Seeger, Torsten Reiners, Dennis Schäffer. Springer, 2014. View publisher information here.
Training and Collaboration with Virtual Worlds by Alex Heiphetz, Gary Woodill, McGraw-Hill, 2009.
The Unofficial Guide to Building Your Business in the Second Life Virtual World: Marketing and Selling Your Product, Services, and Brand In-World by Sue Martin Mahar, Jay Mahar. AMACOM Books, 2009.
Virtual Economies: Design and Analysis by By Vili Lehdonvirta and Edward Castronova. MIT Press, 2014. Listen to "Virtual Economies: what can they teach us about the real world;" an interview podcast with one of the authors.
Wildcat Currency: how the virtual money revolution is transforming the economy by Edward Castronova. Yale University Press, 2014.
Business magazines in Second Life
Bowler Business Review (view this publication at the Rockcliffe Library in Second Life)
Sim Street Journal Issues published in Second Life, now available on the web
SL Business (view this publication at the Rockcliffe Library in Second Life)
SL Business Observer (view this publication at the Rockcliffe Library in Second Life) and issues on the web
Venture Magazine (view this publication at the Rockcliffe Library in Second Life)
