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Bianchi, C., Reyes, V., & Devenin, V. (2020). Consumer motivations to purchase from benefit corporations (B Corps). Corporate Social Responsibility & Environmental Management, 27(3), 1445–1453.
Article discusses some of the benefits of B corporations.

Etter, V. (2021). Entrepreneurship: Business structure. In SAGE Skills: Business. SAGE Publications, Inc. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781071861875
Read the overviews and watch the videos so you can access information on the various business structures that are presented.

Internal Revenue Service. (2025, October 15). Business: Small business, self-employed, business structures. U.S. Department of the Treasury. https://www.irs.gov/businesses
Review information about business structures and entities. This site will give you some understanding of legal environments that apply to businesses. Review the information about different business types and how the IRS reviews the filing status.

United States Small Business Administration. (2023, May 19). Business guide, launch your business, choose business structure. U.S. Small Business Administration. https://www.sba.gov/business-guide/launch-your-business/choose-business-structure
Review the many resources provided for business owners about business structures to help you develop your pamphlet in the Week 1 Assignment.

Hull, K., Perla, D., Findley, P., Moore, D., Ruiz, F., Goltz, J., Klaiman, M., Kruse, A., Richman, R., Vincent, S., Banks, K., Huth, B., Dittmar, G. J., Weiss, N., Michael, B., Brown, W., & Blake, S. P. (Practitioners). (2015). Start-up part iii [Video]. Sage Knowledge. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781473980723
This video has brief discussions of business owners in their beginning stages.

Smith, G. S. (2022). Lasting business impacts and resource sourcing after a global pandemic. In The new normal in IT: How the global pandemic changed information technology forever. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/the-new-normal/9781119839767/cover.xhtml
This whole e-book has a lot of great information about how the IT industry has changed because of the pandemic. The key chapters you should focus on for this class are chapters 1, 2, 4, 5, and 7.

DeLoach, J. (2020, February 5). Strategic resilience: Are you among the 30 percent? NACD Boardtalk. https://blog.nacdonline.org/posts/strategic-resilience-30-percent
In this article corporate CEOs and directors discuss organizational risks, resiliency, and the impact of the pandemic.

Kumar, N. (2022, November 20). Top 10 business assessment templates to analyze your organization position! Slide Team. https://www.slideteam.net/blog/business-assessment-templates
This website offers a variety of templates that can be used to assess organizations.

Nicholas, D., Herman, E., Boukacem-Zeghmouri, C., Watkinson, A., Sims, D., Rodríguez-Bravo, B., Świgoń, M., Abrizah, A., Jie Xu, Serbina, G., Jamali, H. R., Tenopir, C., & Allard, S. (2022). Early career researchers in the pandemic-fashioned ‘new scholarly normality’: A first look into the big changes and long-lasting impacts (international analysis). El Profesional de La Información, 31(4), 1–21.
This article shares data highlights from the Harbingers project, where early career researchers discussed the main and lasting impacts of the pandemic.

The top 7 tried and tested strategy frameworks for businesses. (2023, January 5). Creately.
This website offers some strategy frameworks commonly used in business as well as links to other tools and frameworks.

Wongsnuopparat, S., & Chunyang, W. (2021). Corporate sustainability: Study of factors that affect corporate towards organizational sustainability in today fast-changing world. Journal of Management and Sustainability, 11, 56.
The authors examined twelve variables and their relationship to organizational sustainability, including leadership, culture, workforce diversity, and technology.

Zichen, W., & Tanapol, K. (2021). High-performance work systems in small and micro business: Impact on employee organizational citizenship behavior. E3S Web of Conferences, 253, 03002.
This article explores the relationship between high-performance work systems, employee well-being, and organizational citizenship behavior.