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

Example Sources

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.
Mergent Online
Company information and financials. Tip: download a company's report and look at the "Risk Factors" section.
Passport GMID
Find market research reports and statistics, business environment analysis, and consumer information for your country.

International Newsstream This link opens in a new window
International Newsstream provides recent and archival full-text news content (newspapers, newswires, and news sites) from outside of the US and Canada.
Coverage includes more than 660 of the world's top newspapers, such as 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 This link opens in a new window
Business research database containing full-text journals, trade publications, dissertations, conference proceedings, and market reports.

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: