Humber College ESOL200 Annotated Bibliography: Business Management

This annotated bibliography presents two articles focusing on business management. The first article examines financial management challenges in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Turkey, emphasizing the importance of strategic financial management for their survival and performance. The second article investigates the significance of corporate brand identity in business management, specifically within the UK banking sector, highlighting its impact on employee behavior, attitudes, and satisfaction. The bibliography also includes an article on teacher mental health, school climate, inclusive education and student learning. The author's expertise and the use of peer-reviewed sources within a relevant timeframe are evaluated, along with reflections on the articles' implications for business management practices. The author emphasizes the importance of SMEs to the economies of various nations and strategic financial management on the SMEs.

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Karadag, H. (2015). Financial management challenges in small and medium-sized
enterprises: A strategic management approach. EMAJ: Emerging Markets
Journal, 5(1), 26-40.
Summary: The article examines the financial management challenges that affect small and
media sized enterprises (SMEs) while focusing on a given strategic management approach.
The author has analyzed business management while identifying the financial challenges as
well as practices, which influence organizational performance in Turkish SMEs. SMEs are
considered the driving force of socio-economic growth in most economies. The author
focused the study on Turkey, which has 99 percent of all business enterprises fall in SME
category. In the first section of the research paper, the focus was on Turkey since the
importance of SMEs for this economy as well as society is higher as compared to other
developed and emerging economies. The most notable challenge for SMEs is poor financial
management. Since 2010, Strategic financial management has attracted the attention of
researchers as a main managerial area of SMEs because of the role it played on the survival
and performance of SMEs. The author has done a literature review in the second section,
while the third analyzes the recent strategic financial management practices in Turkey. From
the analysis and finding, the research contributes to existing literature through an analysis of
financial management and the effect that strategic financial management practices has on
SMEs.
Evaluation: The author is an expert in the field of business management. Hande Karadag is
affiliated with Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. In this institution, Karadag is
attached to the Sol C. Snider Entrepreneurial research center. The journals cover a wider
range of disciplines in business management, which makes them compressive in term of
information used to confirm the study. The author has sought the aid of peer-reviewed

sources that are academic and within ten years of publication, which makes the information
good.
Reflection: The article highlights the complexity as well as the significance of SMEs to the economy
of Turkey. In addition, the significance of strategic financial management activities and their effect on
SMEs. It has been noted that most of the SMEs fail due to poor management of funds and resources
hence the outlining the importance of strategic financial management on the SMEs. I was made more
aware of the importance of SMEs to the economies of various nations. In fact, anyone who wants to
venture into SMEs should ensure that they have implemented all the necessary strategic factors of
management to ensure that the business is not mismanaged. Therefore, using different strategies of
financial management could effectively enable the success of SMEs. I will use this article in
developing my argument in determining how different strategies influences business management.
Buil, I., Catalán, S., & Martínez, E. (2016). The importance of corporate brand identity in
business management: An application to the UK banking sector. BRQ Business
Research Quarterly, 19(1), 3-12.
Summary: In this research article, Buil, Catalan, and Martinez examined the significance of
corporate brand identity in business management. The authors based their research on the
application to the United Kingdom’s banking sector. It can be described that corporate brand
identity management is the primary issue for any given firm. The study of corporate
developed a great interest in the research field in business management. Therefore, in the
research paper, the authors wanted to ensure that they seek to widen the insight of all the
strategic activities as well as their basic effects. To be specific, the research study examines
all the concepts of corporate brands identity while focusing on the worker's point of view in
the United Kingdom financial banking sector. The analysis was focused on the relationship
between brand identity management and the behavior along with the attitudes of the
employees. After doing the research, the results indicated that the firms have the responsivity
to pay special attention to all the corporate brand identity management. Based on the

influence on the commitment of the workers with their organizations along with the brand
performance as well as the satisfaction of the employees. The study is a step toward gaining
insight into the significance of the corporate brand as well as its effect on the commitment of
employees. With corporate brands, they have an effect on the commitment of worker, the
performance of brands as well as the satisfaction of the employees. The finding, in this case,
presents a guide to the decisions of the managers in relation to the significant intangible
assets.
Evaluation: The authors are expert in business management. In this context, the three
authors are affiliated with the University of Zaragoza in the department of the economy.
Isabel is the director at the department of marketing investigations. On the other hand, both
Sara Catalan and Eva Martinez are directors of marketing of investigation in the faculty of
economics. It is clear that the three authors have the necessary experts in the fields of
economics and business. Besides the authors have used academic and peer-reviewed sources,
which are necessary within the set period of 10 years. This information is comprehensive in
helping shade a clear idea of the corporate brand in business management.
Reflection: As already indicated in the research study summary, the importance of the
corporate brand in the management of the business. It is clear that corporate brands have a
clear effect on business management. Even though the authors focus on the financial sector
in the UK. In this case, the employee’s attitude, as well as behaviors, play a major role in
attaining the level of customer satisfaction. Therefore, banks, as well as organization, pay
attention to all the facets, which are part of the identity of the corporate brand. I do
understand now that corporate brands are affected by the corporate visual identity as well as
brand personality. With the information obtained from this research, I will use it to do my
research essay since I now understand that corporate brands foster the bonds between all the