Space management & business - Subject Guide

Key resources

Space Foundation, 2020. The space report 2020: the authoritative guide to global space activity. Space foundation

[annual publication].

NASA risk management handbook

European Cooperation for Space Standardization (ECSS) standards

Recommended books

Call number - Position of books on the shelves

HD9711.75

Brennan, L., Heracleous, L.Th. and Vecchi, A., 2018. Above and beyond: exploring the business of space. London: Routledge.

Fernholz, T., 2018. Rocket billionaires: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the new space race. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Farcourt.

Galliot, J., 2015. Commercial space exploration: ethics, policy and governance. Surrey: Ashgate.

Gurtuna, O., 2013. Fundamentals of space business and economics. New York: Springer.

Kertzner, H., 2014. Project management best practices: achieving global excellence. Hoboken: John Wiley.

Nelson, P. L. and Block, W.E., 2018. Space capitalism: how humans will colonize planets, moons and asteroids. Palgrave MacMillan.

Shalley, C.E., 2015. The Oxford handbook of creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Principles of business: entrepreneurship. Salem Press.

Selected in-depth & specialized resources

Harrington, A.J., 2021. Space insurance and the law: maximising private activities in outer space. Edward Elgar Publishing.

Malaval, P. and Benaroya, C., 2002. Aerospace marketing management. Kluwer.

McCurdy: H.E., 2019. Financing the new space industry: breaking free of gravity and government support. Palgrave Macmillan.

Peeters, W.A.R., 2005. Space marketing: a european perspective. Kluwer.

Pelton, J.N., 2019. Space 2.0: revolutionary advances in the space industry. Cham: Springer Praxis.

Spagnulo, M., 2012. Space program management: methods and tools. New York: Springer.

Tkatchova, S., 2018. Emerging space markets. New York: Springer.

Zimmermann, R., 2017. Capitalism in space: private enterprise and competition reshape the global aerospace launch industry. Washington: Center for a New

Journal Articles

Journal articles can be an excellent source for researching narrower, more specialized topics. Articles published in scholarly and specialized journals include extensive footnotes with citations to primary and secondary sources that are relevant to the topic.

Journal indexes and databases are a good tool for conducting journal article research. They include bibliographic information about an article, such as the title, the name of the author, and the name of the journal, as well as one or more subject descriptors.

Multidisciplinary databases

Base: Bielefield Academic search engine
BASE is one of the world's most voluminous search engines especially for academic web resources. BASE provides more than 240 million documents from more than 8,000 content providers. You can access the full texts of about 60% of the indexed documents for free
EBSCO Discovery Service
This database is an online research tool that "pulls together" many external space-related and multidisciplinary sources so that they can be explorer using a single search box
ScienceDirect
Publications and journals of Elsevier. Covers science, earth sciences, materials sciences, mathematics, physics and astronomy
SpringerLink
Web of Science
Web Of Science is a citation index that provides a comprehensive citation search. It gives access to multiple databases that reference cross-disciplinary research, which allows for in-depth exploration of specialized sub-fields within an academic or scientific discipline. (On-campus access)
WorldCat
WorldCat connects you to the collections of more than 10,000 libraries worldwide. You can search for books, reports, article citations, and resources from the internet

Specialized databases

AIAA ARC
Publications of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
EconBiz
Covers journals, working papers & conferences in business studies and economics
EIU Country Reports
Comprehensive political and economic analysis and forecasts
IAC Meeting papers
IAF repository of publications
NASA NTRS
Public database of NASA's current and historical technical literature
OECD iLibrary
World Development Indicators Data Bank