Open DOAR http://www.opendoar.org/ is the Directory of Open Access Repositories. As well as a list of open access respositories it provides access to the contents of these repositories. These consist of the research outputs of universities and other research institutes from all over the world, including theses (doctoral, postgraduate and undergraduate), journal articles, discussion papers and book chapters. It covers all academic areas including business and economics. So, if you are looking to see what research has been done in your area or you just want to see what a thesis looks like, this is a good site to search. It is free and the contents are available in full text.
The searching is done using Google custom search and is a bit limited. Unless your search is very specific you do get a large number of hits, which can be a bit tricky to narrow down. There are no abstracts and the results are shown in relevance, rather than date order. You can't change them to date order either.
However, it is worth a look because of the academic content, it's global coverage and being freely available. It will also continue to grow and hopefully the search functions will be improved.
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