Library Guides @ VIU: MBA 523: International Marketing: Information Sources

Example Sources

MERGENT Market Atlas
Information about industries and public companies worldwide. Company Info: International public company information including business summaries, corporate history, joint ventures, property/holdings, subsidiaries, capital stock, company financials (plus ratios/analysis), annual reports. 1988 to present. Industry Info: Analysis of industries in North America and Asia/Pacific, including performance & key financials of leading companies per sector and country; overviews of mergers, acquisitions & alliances.

Business Source Complete: Business Searching Interface
Business database for scholars and practitioners, providing bibliographic and full text content, including indexing and abstracting of journal articles back as far as 1886.
IBISWorld Industry Reports
These reports provide detailed information about a particular industry. You will often need to look at more than one industry report for an assignment.
LexisNexis Academic
Over 10,000 full-text news, business, and legal sources.
Passport GMID
Find market research reports and statistics, business environment analysis, and consumer information for your country.

International Newsstream
International Newsstream provides recent and archival full-text news content (newspapers, newswires, and news sites) from outside of the US and Canada.
Coverage includes The Times (London), The Bangkok Post, El Norte, Financial Times, The Guardian, Jerusalem Post, South China Morning Post, The Daily Telegraph, Asian Wall Street Journal, and the BBC Monitoring series of publications.
ABI/INFORM Complete Full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, business and economics periodicals, country-and industry-focused reports, and downloadable data. International coverage.

Some industry associations publish newsletters, reports, and other useful resources. Sometimes, these publications are only accessible my members.

You can find these in Google by searching for "industry association" followed by a word that describes the industry, such as restaurant or cosmetics.

Here are some examples: