Research and Course Guides: MKTG 714 Doing business in a post pandemic world: Getting Started

Country Overviews

Political Handbook of the World Online Edition This link opens in a new window
Political science and journalism researchers will find this resource useful for comprehensive country profiles, chronicles of national history, government, and political parties, as well as information on intergovernmental organizations, development banks, and the agencies and specialized bodies of the United Nations.
Political Risk Yearbook This link opens in a new window
Provides 45-65 page overviews of the history, economy, politics, and risk forecasts for 100 countries. It provides 10 years of economic data, with description and analysis of the political players and situation written by experts.
Passport This link opens in a new window
Euromonitor’s Passport is a global market research database providing statistics, analysis, reports, and surveys on industries, countries, and consumers worldwide. Available only to current UST students, faculty, and staff.

Industry Overviews

Passport This link opens in a new window
Euromonitor’s Passport is a global market research database providing statistics, analysis, reports, and surveys on industries, countries, companies, and consumers worldwide.
D&B Hoovers This link opens in a new window
D&B Hoovers provides company information from about 18 million global companies, detailed industry reports, analyst reports, SEC filings, and market research. Limited to 50 simultaneous users. Tip: try clearing your browser cache, cookies, and history if you encounter errors.

Company Overviews

D&B Hoovers This link opens in a new window
D&B Hoovers provides company information from about 18 million global companies, detailed industry reports, analyst reports, SEC filings, and market research. Limited to 50 simultaneous users. Tip: try clearing your browser cache, cookies, and history if you encounter errors.
Mergent Intellect This link opens in a new window
Mergent Intellect is useful for locating information about private companies. Intellect also covers public companies and includes a broad range of industry reports. Note: public company records in Intellect are not as detailed as those available in Mergent Online.
Use of the Mergent data and service are intended for non-commercial academic purposes only.

What if overviews are not enough?

You may very well find that your industry or company doesn't have it's own clean cut overview. What do you do? Alternative strategies include looking for articles in news and business publications.

Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window
Business Source Premier provides the full text of more than two thousand business publications. It is a comprehensive database that covers all disciplines of business including management, finance, marketing and international trade. It also contains company, industry and country reports.
ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry This link opens in a new window
- This link opens in a new window
ABI/Inform Trade & Industry contains business and in depth company and industry articles from over 2,000 scholarly, trade and news publications. It also includes reports from major and smaller, niche industries that contain information for entrepreneurs and financial data perfect for marketing and business plans

Your Librarian

Andrea Koeppe

she / her / hers

Email Me

Contact:

Charles J. Keffer Library | MOH 223

651-962-4647

Subjects: Business, Entrepreneurship, Ethics & Business Law, Management, Political Science

Hey, one last thing before you go! Trade associations

Check trade associations to find out more about an industry. Trade associations educate and advocate for their industries, and therefore might collect data not available from any other source, including industry statistics, reports, trends, and more. Articles you read often mention trade and industry associations by name; you can search for their websites.

World Bioenergy Association - https://www.worldbioenergy.org/

American Hiking Society - https://americanhiking.org/