Content: Business research database covering topics including accounting, banking, economics, finance, international trade, marketing, management information systems, and more.
Purpose: This is a key database for business, accounting, and economics students.
Special Features: SWOT analysis functionality, market research reports, country reports, industry profiles, and more.
Content: Database supporting business and legal research.
Purpose: News, journals, and company profiles and directories for both public and private companies.
Special Features: U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to the 1790s, New York Times articles, Cases, Law Reviews, Company & Country Information, and much more.
Content: Database for company and industry research containing detailed information about many publicly traded companies, including inactive companies.
Purpose: This is a key database for business, accounting, and economics students.
Special Features: Economic and industry reports, as well as company filings, financials, a report builder, and much more.r, try the Mergent Online old link.
Contents: Business research database covering businesses from large conglomerates to small businesses.
Purpose: Database for business and economics students
Special Features: Data updated in real-time, phone numbers, addresses, SIC code, online presence, and number of employees, as well as information on verified, unverified, and out-of-business records
Content: Database containing data and statistics on over 60,000 topics, including media, business, finance, politics, and much more.
Purpose: A key database for business and economics students.
Special Features: PDF/PNG downloadable content for easy insertion into papers or presentations, charts, graphs, reports, and dossiers.
Content: Law school students only. Primary and analytical law sources, news, trade publications, company information, and more.
Purpose: Use to search legal cases, codes, and other information.
SWOT analyses are a particular type of company information in which the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats are analyzed. These reports are particularly useful in identifying both internal and external factors that are essential in decision-making.
Use the databases below to search for SWOT analyses in the Library. Note, however, there are not SWOT analyses available for all companies within these databases. SWOT analysis reports are most often available for large U.S. public companies, though some foreign and private companies might be covered as well. If you are working on a course assignment, you may need to select an alternate company if unable to locate reports for your first choice.
Content: Business research database covering economic conditions, management techniques, theory, and practice of business, advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more.
Purpose: This is a key database for business and leadership students.
Special Features: Country and market reports, SWOT analysis functionality, browsable by topic pathway.
Enter SWOT in the top search bar. Enter the name of your company in the second search box and select Company/organization from the drop-down menu.
Content: Business research database covering topics including accounting, banking, economics, finance, international trade, marketing, management information systems, and more.
Purpose: This is a key database for business, accounting, and economics students.
Special Features: SWOT analysis functionality, market research reports, country reports, industry profiles, and more.
Limit Publication Type to SWOT Analysis.
Content: Database supporting business and legal research.
Purpose: News, journals, and company profiles and directories for both public and private companies.
Special Features: U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to the 1790s, New York Times articles, Cases, Law Reviews, Company & Country Information, and much more.
Alternatively, you may use the All Nexis Uni search box on the home page. Enter the company name and include SWOT as one of your search terms as shown in the example below.
PEST or PESTLE is a framework for analyzing the external macro environment of a business or industry, usually specific to a particular country. It examines Political, Economic, Social, and Technological factors to identify opportunities and threats when starting a new business or entering a foreign market. PESTLE adds Legal and Environmental factors.
See the above boxes for Library Databases for Company Information and Library Databases for SWOT Analyses for resources that may be used for PEST/PESTLE analysis.
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