Library: Business Case Studies: Case Study Database

Business case database

SAGE Business Cases
This proprietary and commissioned business cases from Sage is intended to elicit discussion and inspire researchers to develop their own best practices and prepare for professional success. Formats range from short vignettes to narrative long form. Cases were written based on field research and publicly available sources. Note: Faculty may access teaching notes by 1) creating a profile and 2) then requesting access from the library using the eResources form. For all other users, the teaching notes are locked.

Using the Sage Business Cases database

Sage Business Cases: Finding and Using Cases in Your Classroom
This handout covers how to access the database, browse and search for cases, how to access teaching notes (faculty only), and best practices for providing student access to Sage cases. (Dec. 2020)

The Sage LibGuide can help:

Faculty learn about teaching with cases
Students to use case studies to prepare for interviews and to analyze "real-world" business scenarios.
Anyone interested in writing a case study for publication.

Sage Business Cases LibGuide

Teaching with Sage Business Case Studies

Teaching notes available to faculty only

Only faculty may access the teaching notes for a case. Access to the teaching notes is not automatic; Follow these steps to gain access:

1) Log in (using your last name and Webster ID number) to the Sage Business Cases database.

2) Create your personal My Profile using your Webster University email address. And then,

3) Request that the library give you access to all teaching notes when you are logged in to your Sage profile. Faculty may request access by emailing Mary Anne Erwin, the Business & Management Librarian, or by completing the library's eResources form

4) Library staff will verify that you are a Webster University faculty member and enter the code that allows you to access the teaching notes into your profile. Please allow two (2) business days for the library to complete the process.

Unfortunately, sometimes the teaching notes access code gets erased from faculty profiles. If this happens, please contact us so that the library can reinstate your access. There is no need to create another profile.

Ensuring that your students can access the case

To ensure that your students can access the case you wish them to read, you may download the PDF and post it, or a link to it, in your World Classroom / Canvas course page. Distributing the PDF document carries the advantage of keeping students within your class space.

If you decide to link to the case, make sure that the link includes the library's proxy server address. To capture the link from the Sage database itself, click on the title of the case to open the record and click Get Link. Post this link in your course page. (Students may be prompted to log in to access the case.

No matter how you share the case with students, it is a best practice to also include a full citation to the case. From the case record, click the Cite button to generate the citation in one of several citation styles (e.g. APA, MLA, etc.). You may then copy and paste the citation. This practice will also help our research librarians to help students to find the case in the event that the access you planned fails.

Hobbs, A., (2020). Leadership during COVID-19: Conflict and collaboration. In SAGE Business Cases. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781529752021