Biographical sources provide framing details and indications about the activities done by the most relevant people in a specific field. They are therefore particularly useful if you need information about famous people’s lives. The so – called “Who’s who”, which provide news mainly related to contemporaries, belong to this field.

  • Who's who : an annual biographical dictionary (London, Black, 1998)
  • Who's who in Italy, edited by Giancarlo Colombo (Bresso, MI, Who's who, c1998)
  • Who's who in economics : a biographical dictionary of major economists : 1700-1986, edited by Mark Blaug (2nd ed., Cambridge, MIT Press, 1986)
  • Who's who in small business & entrepreneurship worldwide : the official membership registry of the International Council for Small Business : spring 1993, editor James J. Carroll (S.l., ICSB,1993)
  • Who's who in European business (London, Bowker-Saur, 1993)