LibGuides: Business, Management and Economics: Resources by Research Topic

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Find Company Information

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Name of company
Location and contact information
Corporate tree: parent company, headquarters, subsidiaries, branches
Ownership – Location and status: public or private
Company size: Number of employees, size of executive board
Key financials - Turnover (operating revenue), total assets, profit margins
Peer groups

Orbis This link opens in a new window
Orbis provides up to 10 years of comparable financial data for over 400 million public and private companies worldwide. Includes company profiles, key financials, peer groups, company size, corporate ownership, stock and earnings estimates, debt and credit swaps, information on directors, managers and advisors, and news and deals. Features include: Custom reports, data analysis tools, data export, search alerts.
Fame This link opens in a new window
Fame provides up to 20 years of financial data for over 15 million public and private companies in the UK and Ireland. Includes, company profiles, key financials, peer groups, company size, corporate ownership, stock data, directors and contacts, and news and. Features: Custom reports, data analysis tools, data export, search alerts.
Bloomberg terminals This link opens in a new window
Access available via the Business School in the Bloomberg Financial Markets Laboratory. Bloomberg terminals can be booked for up to two hours at a time.

Research company activities

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Industry profiles
Business size (revenue and number of employees)
Products and services
Media presence: advertising, social media, public relations
Competitors
SWOT Analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats)

Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window
A business database containing scholarly journals, trade publications, and industry reports. With 4000 active indexed and abstracted journals and full text access for more than 1000 journal titles, it covers a wide range of subjects including business, management, economics, finance, accounting, and marketing. Users can explore case studies, company profiles, and market research reports.
Fame This link opens in a new window
Fame provides up to 20 years of financial data for over 15 million public and private companies in the UK and Ireland. Includes, company profiles, key financials, peer groups, company size, corporate ownership, stock data, directors and contacts, and news and. Features: Custom reports, data analysis tools, data export, search alerts.
Nexis This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive newspaper database, updated daily, providing full text access to all UK national newspapers, plus regional newspapers, international news providers and a number of trade journals and magazines.

Orbis This link opens in a new window
Orbis provides up to 10 years of comparable financial data for over 400 million public and private companies worldwide. Includes company profiles, key financials, peer groups, company size, corporate ownership, stock and earnings estimates, debt and credit swaps, information on directors, managers and advisors, and news and deals. Features include: Custom reports, data analysis tools, data export, search alerts.
ProQuest One Business This link opens in a new window
Combines multiple ProQuest business information databases - including the ABI/INFORM Global Collection and J.P. Morgan Research

Find Industry Reports

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Industry structure
Industry performance
Products and markets
Key trends & outlook
Market Research reports

Mintel This link opens in a new window
Produces hundreds of reports into European, UK-specific and Chinese consumer markets every year. You will need to login to access Mintel.
Passport (Euromonitor) This link opens in a new window
Provides international market intelligence on industries, countries and consumers.
Statista This link opens in a new window
Access to statistical data from market and opinion research institutions and from business organisations and government institutions in English and German.

Research Financial Performance of Companies

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Company financials (e.g. income, balance sheet, cash flow)
Equity pricing
Dividend information
Analysts’ reports
Investments
Financial strength

Fame This link opens in a new window
Fame provides up to 20 years of financial data for over 15 million public and private companies in the UK and Ireland. Includes, company profiles, key financials, peer groups, company size, corporate ownership, stock data, directors and contacts, and news and. Features: Custom reports, data analysis tools, data export, search alerts.
Orbis This link opens in a new window
Orbis provides up to 10 years of comparable financial data for over 400 million public and private companies worldwide. Includes company profiles, key financials, peer groups, company size, corporate ownership, stock and earnings estimates, debt and credit swaps, information on directors, managers and advisors, and news and deals. Features include: Custom reports, data analysis tools, data export, search alerts.
Orbis M&A This link opens in a new window
Provides searching and analyzing intelligence on global mergers and acquisitions. Contains M&A, IPO, private equity, and venture capital deals and rumors.
Bloomberg terminals This link opens in a new window
Access available via the Business School in the Bloomberg Financial Markets Laboratory. Bloomberg terminals can be booked for up to two hours at a time.

Find Case Studies

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Real-life scenarios faced by sectors and industries, managers and companies

Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window
A business database containing scholarly journals, trade publications, and industry reports. With 4000 active indexed and abstracted journals and full text access for more than 1000 journal titles, it covers a wide range of subjects including business, management, economics, finance, accounting, and marketing. Users can explore case studies, company profiles, and market research reports.
Case Centre This link opens in a new window
Case studies by organisations on a range of subject areas. Some free cases available to all. Select business cases for specific modules are available via the Business School.
MIT Sloan Teaching Innovation Resources (MSTIR) This link opens in a new window
Case studies on a range of topics including Accounting and Finance; Entrepreneurship; Leadership and Ethics; Operations Management; Strategy; Sustainability.
Sage Business Cases This link opens in a new window
A discipline-wide digital collection of cases from 2016 to 2018 to support teaching and independent research. TUTORS: Please contact your library for an 'instructor verification code', in order to access the Teaching Notes..

Research National Economic Data

CIA World Factbook This link opens in a new window
Information and statistics on the countries of the world.
OECD iLibrary This link opens in a new window
Publications and datasets, from 1998 to present, released by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), OECD Development Centre, PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment), and International Transport Forum (ITF).
Passport (Euromonitor) This link opens in a new window
Provides international market intelligence on industries, countries and consumers.
UN Comtrade This link opens in a new window
Access to commodity trade data for all available countries and areas since 1962.
Requires registration to access the full content

Newspapers and Trade Publications

Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window
Provides access to numerous news and magazine sources. Includes, Newsweek and Time Magazine.
The Economist This link opens in a new window
Full text access from Jan 4, 1992 - present.
Financial Times This link opens in a new window
Provides essential news, comments, data and analysis for the global business community. Registration is required. Click on "sign in, then register an account. App also available from iOS and Android app stores.
Nexis This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive newspaper database, updated daily, providing full text access to all UK national newspapers, plus regional newspapers, international news providers and a number of trade journals and magazines.
ProQuest One Business This link opens in a new window
Combines multiple ProQuest business information databases includes the Wall Street Journal.

Newspaper Guide
To see the full collection of newspaper resources available through the library visit our newspaper guide

Reference, Dictionaries and Encyclopaedias

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Key terms and concepts
Introductory materials

Oxford Handbooks Online This link opens in a new window
A collection handbooks covering different subject areas. Provides introductions to key topics and a critical survey of the current state of scholarship.
Oxford Reference Online This link opens in a new window
A wealth of facts, figures, definitions, and translations found in dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press.
Oxford Scholarship Online Economics and Finance ebooks Collection This link opens in a new window
Ebooks on Behavioural Economics; Development, Growth and Environmental Econometrics; Economic History; Economic Systems; Financial Economics; History of Economic Thought; International Macro and Monetary Economics; Microeconomics; Public and Welfare and South and East Asia.

Research Methods

Sage Research Methods Online This link opens in a new window
A research methods tool created to help researchers, faculty and students with their research projects.