business research resources
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Business Research Resources. Constance Adamson Business Liaison Librarian [email protected] September 2010. Business Information. Who uses it? Who produces it? What’s not available – secret/proprietary. Sources of Company Info. ▪ Web site ▪ Annual reports - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Business Information
Who uses it?
Who produces it?
What’s not available – secret/proprietary
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Sources of Company Info
▪ Web site▪ Annual reports
▪ Filings with regulators – OSC or SECSEDAR and EDGAR
(10K reports provide most detail)RIM Potash Apple
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▪ Company directories/databasesD&B-Million Dollar Database Standard & Poor’s NetAdvantage FP Advisor Hoover’s Factiva (see companies/markets at top)
Canadian Social Investment Database ▪ Financial databases
Compustat, FP Advisor, Factiva
▪ Securities pricesTSX database, CRSP, Factiva
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library.queensu.ca
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Companies & Industries
Often your research starts with a company or an industry sector
Industries are made up of companies
Companies can operate in more than one sector
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Find out who is in the industry
Learn more about these companies and a picture of the industry will emerge
We use many of the same sources for both Industry and Company research – they build on each other
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▪ Business newspapers and industry magazines
ABI/Inform GlobalAsian BusinessEuropean Business
Business Source CompleteCBCA (Cdn Business and Current Affairs)Canadian NewsstandFactiva
and see the Newspapers Guide
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Sources of Industry InfoIndustry StudiesStandard & Poor’s NetAdvantagesee ‘Industry Surveys’ under ‘Quick Links’
EIU Industry Briefingkey global industries by country
Gartner ResearchIT, communications and technology research
And see Industries in the Business Guide
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Industry Associations
are organizations of companies and people in the industry
find them by web searching or see the directories at Stauffer’s Research Help Desk
useful for membership lists, statistics, press releases, industry trends
indicate how the industry is organizing itself
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Data & StatisticsMaps, Data & Government Information
Centre (MADGIC) library.queensu.ca/webdoc/
geospatial, statistical and government information
includes Statistics Canada, Census, Industry Canada, the OECD, European Union, IMF,
World Bank, UN . . .
Never pay for stats – check with the library first!
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Strategy for Effective Searching Start your search with the obvious ‘keywords’ or
search terms including personal and company names.
Look at the search results for other possible keywords and phrases. Also think of synonyms, alternate spellings, other terms or phrases to express the same concepts.
Keep a list of the search terms and combinations you’ve tried in the various databases.
aviation or airlines or airline industry or air transportation
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forecast or trends or projection or growth or performance
mobile or wireless or cellular or handheld
and
merger or acquisition or takeover or divest*
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Most research databases have direct links to full-text if we subscribe to the journal. Use to follow links to the text of an article or to QCAT (the library catalogue). In QCAT use the ‘Journal Title Exact’ option to check if Queen’s Libraries subscribes to the publication. You can save, print or email your search results and articles.
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Questions?
