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Articles
& Journals |
Websites |
Books
& Reports |
- ABI-Inform
Access Hoovers here, and also search for articles
on company aspects.
- ReferenceUSA
(library only)
Contains
info on almost every company
- Business
Source Premier
Find your datamonitor Company report here.
- Business
& Company Resource Center
Database to research all business and management topics.
Includes directory listings for over 300,000 companies
as well as company profiles, industry rating, product
brands, company performance ratings, investment reports
and ratings, industry statistics, financial overviews,
financial ratios, etc.
- Business
& Management Practices
Delivers real-world know-how about business planning,
decision making and management issues, allowing searches
by a specific department or function within an organization
to present highly relevant results every time.
See
David for access.
- Business
& Industry
Has a strong global focus on company, product and
industry information. Provides valuable facts, figures
and trends. See
David for access.
- TableBase
Offers thousands of tables indispensable to daily
research on more than 90 international industries,
featuring precise indexing, unambiguous table titles
and links to full text. See David for access..
- InvestText
Plus
The premier investment and financial analysis database
on global companies and industries delivers instant
full-text reports in their original published formats,
complete with charts, photographs and graphics.
See
David for access.
- ProQuest
Newsstand
Access articles from newspapers aross
the country. Great resource
for finding artilces on company culture. See example
search for General
Electric.
- Standard
& Poor's netAdvantage
- Mergent
Online
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Some
Management Journals:
Some
Business Magazines:
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for more e-journals |
- Bureau
of Labor Statistics
A great
place to start for general information on starting
a small business, finance, planning, marketing, etc.
- U.S.
Economy at a Glance
Data includes unemployment rate, hourly earnings,
consumer price index, and productivity
- CasePlace.org
find hundreds of business case studies and supporting
materials.
- Vault.com
& Webfeet.com
have company profiles containing information from
an employee's perspective that also covers aspects
of corporate culture.
- OpenSecrets
An exec's political affiliation can often be telling.
Here you can search for contributions by personal
name and employer.
- Google
Groups
newsgroup postings can provide anecdotal information
about/by employees and corporate culture.
- Finding
Company Specific Polices and Practices
This can be challenging!...
Labor
Market Conditions:
- County
Business Patterns
provides data on the total number of establishments,
mid-March employment, first quarter and annual payroll,
and number of establishments by nine employment-size
classes
- America’s
Career InfoNet
Has a “Labor Market Information Center.” Explore Current
Wages and Occupational Trends, Search for Detailed
Wages, Research Detailed Occupational Trends
- EPI
Datazone
Current labor market, family income, price, wage,
GDP, foreign trade, and federal deficit data
- Labor
& Emp. Statistical Resources
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Company
Reports
- Get the Datamonitor Report for your
company. Go to Business
Source Premier and click on the "Company
Profiles" button. (PDF)
- Get the Hoover's report from ABI-Inform.
- Get the Standard
& Poor's report. (PDF)
- Get the Valueline
Report. Must ask for login assistance. (PDF)
- Explore what's available at Mergent
Online. (If you are denied access, try back in
30 minutes.)
- Find all of your company locations
through ReferenceUSA.
Available in-library only.
Industry and
Market Research Reports
Corporate Strategy:
Focused...Unfocused
- For some discussion/definitions
on the types of corporate strategy, see this article
from the Encyclopedia of Management: "Strategy
Levels." See especially #3 under Growth Strategies,
where it defines diversification and related/unrelated,
AND see the section “PORTER'S GENERIC STRATEGIES”
where it discusses Differentiation and the focus strategy.
Other areas of the article might be helpful to you
too.
Finding Info
on a Company's Culture
Flu Pandemic
Topic Considerations
Remember that the following are
just suggestions and may or may not be useful to your
particular situation.
- Check out these articles at Economist.com.
(May need to
log in first)
- See this
blog post.
- Check out: http://www.pandemicflu.gov/plan/
- The January 10 2006 Financial Times
has an article
on how banks and insurance companies are preparing
for Bird Flu.
- This PowerPoint
presentation on business risk involved with AIDS/HIV
might suggest some approaches to this question.
- Check out the study a newsmagazine
program on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation did
on the
economic impact of SARS. Several commissions and
studies were instituted as a result of the outbreak.
You can get to most of them via links on the web site.
- See: "An
economist's view of pandemic flu"
- See: Centers for Disease Control
(CDC) and Prevention
BUSINESS
PANDEMIC INFLUENZA PLANNING CHECKLIST [December
2005] It is only a short document but it might give
you some ideas.
Survey of Global HR Challenges: Yesterday, today
and tomorrow [2005]
Conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers on behalf of
the World Federation of Personnel Management Associations
(WFPMA)
- Another strategy would be to look
at books or resources on competitive intelligence
which is the process of gathering actionable information
on the competitive environment. That might give you
ideas of what other companies have done in the past
to react to changes in their business environment.
Two examples of these books are:
Margaret Metcalf Carr, Super
Searchers on Competitive Intelligence: The Online
and Offline Secrets of Top CI Researchers,
CyberAge Books, 2003.
ISBN: 0-910965-64-1 (This is more of a book on the
CI profession in general and what the "typical
day" is like)
Ben Gilad, Early Warning, AMACOM, a division
of American Management Association, 2004. ISBN:
0-8144-0786-2
- Additionally, consider requesting
these two books thru ILL: The Monster at our door:
the global threat of the avian flu by Mike Davis
2. The Great Influenza by John M. Barry.
- Finally, see these and other e-books
in netLibrary:
Influenza : A Medical Dictionary, Bibliography,
and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References
The Burdens of Disease : Epidemics and Human Response
in Western History
- Other thoughts:
Keep in mind that regarding a flu pandemic, threats
would be somewhat obvious; identifying opportunities
might require some creative thinking.
Heavy manufacturing (assembly
line) companies that require employees to work in
the plant will be hit hardest as those employees will
either stay home or come to work and become infected.
Companies with a large number of
employees working from home will suffer less as
those employees can lower their chance of infection
and still function. Major exception to this will
be insurance companies who will be hit with a large
number of claims.
Also companies with widely scattered
offices/operations will be safer, IF the spread
of the infection can be contained to specific locations.
Of course companies in those specific locations
will be hit hardest.
Hospitals/medical facilities will
be hit very hard as their workers will be required
to come in for work and consequently become infected.
Since avaian flu has been in the news quite a bit,
try running a news search on major economic/financial
pubs (economist, forbes, financial times, wsj, etc)
using ABI-Inform.
Finding
Wage Information
Researching wages is an important part
of examining the labor relations of a particular firm.
Say that you need to resources that have wage rate information
searchable by these three criteria:
(1) NAICS code
(2) Local, regional, and national area
(3) Skill level (entry level and highest paid level)
Here are some suggestions on how to
do this:
- The Bureau of Labor Statistics provides
some of the information you need:
Entitled: Wages by Area and Occupation
By NAICS http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oessrci.htm#11
Area Wages: http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oessrcma.htm
Select the downloadable Excel
Files which includes 10th, 25th, 75th, 90th percentile
wages, plus median and mean.
Use the 10th percentile as the starting wage and
then the 75th and 90th as "skilled level"
categories. Available for
National, State, and Local.
- The National Compensation Survey
(NCS) is another survey: http://www.bls.gov/ncs/home.htm
How does it differ from the BLS? The NCS is a
little more current. Fewer occupations, but does include
skill levels for some of the occupations. The NCS
is based on "personal interviews and visits,"
supposedly making the survey data a little more accurate.
It provides comprehensive measures of occupational
earnings; compensation cost trends, benefit incidence,
and detailed plan provisions. Detailed occupational
earnings are available for metropolitan and non-metropolitan
areas, broad geographic regions, and on a national
basis. The index component of the NCS (ECI) measures
changes in labor costs. Average hourly employer cost
for employee compensation is presented in the ECEC.
This doesn't mean your whole list of criteria but
check it out anyway. It may be of use to you.
- On this page: http://lehd.dsd.census.gov/led/index.html,
click on the link for QWI Online. The QWI is the Quarterly
Workforce Indicators database. It only has state and
metro level data, and only for participating states.
Alabama is a participating state. You can search by
metro area and also get state level data. You can
also search by 2-digit NAICS code for industries.
The wage data, unfortunately, is only average monthly
earnings and average new hire earnings.
- Also Try O'Net; has most, not sure
about NAIC. http://online.onetcenter.org/
- Salary.com will do #2 and 3 on
the list. Its URL is http://www.salary.com/salary/layoutscripts/sall_display.asp.
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