(Source: Kubo & Ottaviano, 2016)
Industry analysis is also known as competitive analysis. The analysis of a given industry provides a company with a big picture of the overall industry.
Industry research can answer the following questions:
"Is the company public or private?" "Is the company U.S. or international?" Those questions will determine how much information is available about the company.
The SEC form 20-F is an annual report for foreign companies traded on U.S. exchanges
["Industry." Encyclopedia of Environment and Society, edited by Paul Robbins, vol. 3, SAGE Publications, 2007, pp. 927-928. Gale eBooks.]
"a means of evaluating the internal and external factors that impact an organization in order to formulate business strategy." Strengths & Weaknesses (internal), Opportunities & Threats (external).
["Swot Analysis." Encyclopedia of Management, 8th ed., vol. 2, Gale, 2019, pp. 1064-1068. Gale eBooks.]
Note: Not all companies have a SWOT analysis report.
An essential tool for business students that covers all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, accounting, banking, finance, and more.
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On the top of the database interface, hover your cursor on "More" to find and click on "Company Profiles" >> type the company name in the search box and click on the "Browse" button >> Click on the link to MarkerLine Report after the company name (under the column of "PDF Complete Report."
On the right side of the database interface, under "Publication Type," choose the "SWOT Analyses" >> Enter the company name in the search box and click "Search" button >> Locate the most recent "SWOT Analyses" for the company company in the list and click on its title to retrieve it.
Detailed company and industry profiles including SWOT reports, market share reports, and financial reports.
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1. Browse "Most Searched Companies"
2. Click on the "Browse All Companies" button >> type a company name or ticker symbol into the search box and click on the Search icon >> Choose/click a company from the list of suggestions to retrieve a company profile.
** If a SWOT report is available for the company, it will appear on the company profile page. Click the "Read full SWOT Analysis" button to access the report.
SIC/NAICS Codes are numerical classification systems to help identify industries and organize business companies/entities within the same industry.
NAICS is a 6-digit coding system to categorize industries, "the standard used by Federal statistical agencies in classifying business establishments for the purpose of collecting, analyzing, and publishing statistical data related to the U.S. business economy." NAICS was adopted in 1997 to replace the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system "to allow for a high level of comparability in business statistics among the North American countries."
SIC is a four-digit classification system developed in the 1930s and revised through 1987. SIC codes are still used by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and many business databases.
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Detailed company and industry profiles including SWOT reports, market share reports, and financial reports.
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Standard & Poor's industry surveys. [QC Library currently does not own this journal]
Standard and Poor's Corporation.
1973 - 2012
It can be helpful to consider what type of company you are seeking information on:
Public Companies
Private Companies
Subsidiary
Nonprofit organizations
Government entities
SIC/NAICS Codes are numerical classification systems to help identify and organize like companies within the same industry.
NAICS Search The North American Industry Classification system (NAICS) is the standard used by Federal statistical agencies in classifying business establishments for the purpose of collecting and analyzing statistical data related to the U.S. business economy.
SIC Manual SIC codes and their descriptions at the Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) website.
Find industry/company reports and management and leadership articles:
The collection includes key business and economics periodicals such as The Economist and Sloan Management Review that focuses on global business trends.
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ABI/INFORM Collection includes ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry, and ABI/INFORM Dateline.
An essential tool for business students that covers all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, accounting, banking, finance, and more.
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Detailed company and industry profiles including SWOT reports, market share reports, and financial reports.
Catalogue Link: OneSearch
Mergent Online offers a wealth of detail on items including business description, history, property, subsidiaries, officers and directors, long-term debt, and capital stock. The database provides extensive details for both public and private companies that can show you what a given organization truly looks like from every angle.
Catalogue Link: OneSearch.
Nexis Uni offers intuitive searching for all levels of research experience, empowering students to Access discipline-focused pages with curated news, featured publications, and relevant court cases for Political Science, Business, and Criminal Justice majors.
Catalogue Link: OneSearch.
Emerald Insight is home to articles across the fields of business, management, economics, engineering, computing, technology and social science.
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Collection of scholarly journals with strong coverage for the life and physical sciences, medicine, and technical fields, with additional content in the social sciences and humanities.
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Multi-disciplinary databases:
Academic Search Complete is a multidisciplinary database of scholarly journals, magazines, and news sources. It is a good starting point for research in all areas of study.
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Britannica Academic: Includes Encyclopedia Britannica plus Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, magazines and periodicals, and many other research tools.
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Access encyclopedias and reference sources within the Gale eBooks platform.
JSTOR is a multi-disciplinary collection of scholarly journals and e-books that include primary sources, images, and more.
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Wiley Online Library is a collection of scholarly journals and e-books published by Wiley-Blackwell in science, medicine, social sciences, and humanities.
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Gale Primary Sources: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection represents the largest single collection of seventeenth and eighteenth-century English news media available from the British Library and includes more than 1,000 pamphlets, proclamations, newsbooks, and newspapers from the period.
Comprehensive digital coverage back to 1980. The complete text of recent articles is provided in ASCII format. The New York Times Book Review and Sunday Magazine are provided in PDF format.
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NYTimes.com Passes grant digital access to The New York Times.
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Nexis Uni offers intuitive searching for all levels of research experience, empowering students to Access discipline-focused pages with curated news, featured publications, and relevant court cases for Political Science, Business, and Criminal Justice majors.
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ProQuest Historical Newspapers is the definitive newspaper digital archive offering full-text and full-image articles for significant newspapers dating back to the 19th Century (1851-2018).
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Provides full-text regional business publications for the United States and Canadian provinces. Content for Regional Business News is provided by leading publishers in business news including The Washington Post, PR Newswire US, and more.
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The Wall Street Journal is an American business-focused, English-language international daily newspaper based in New York City.
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