Small Business & Entrepreneurship

Analyzes industry sectors by NAICS number at the 5-digit level. Each report consists of 30 to 40 pages of key statistics and analysis on market characteristics, operating conditions, current and forecast performance, major industry participants, risk ratings, and more.

Contains essential data and analysis on topics that affect the purchasing decision, such as pricing dynamics, product characteristics, supplier bench-marking, supply chain risks and negotiation questions and tactics.
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Hundreds of in-depth micro-level market research reports on dozens of market niches in 14 major consumer areas. Each report has market data, company/brand data, and consumer demographic information, complete with trending and forecasting information.

Customizable reports on current and historical financial and nonfinancial information on public and private companies. All reports are exportable to Microsoft Excel. Also includes equity reports, bond reports, industry reports, news, and SEC filings.

The Small Business Reference Center is a comprehensive resource for small business owners and those interested in starting a business, offering full-text periodicals and reports, sample business plans, U.S. tax forms, videos and reference books. It supports small business owners in all relevant areas from planning, financing and managing a business to exit strategies.

Papers from industry-specific research groups, including economics, finance, business, public policy, and market research, analyzing firm behavior and industry dynamics, including the determinants of market competition and of pricing decisions, as well as the effects of public policies such as anti-trust law and government regulation.

Papers from industry-specific research groups, including economics, growth and innovation, entrepreneurship, human resources, and industrialization studying firm-level and economy-wide forces that determine productivity, emphasizing the factors that affect innovation, patenting, entrepreneurship, and the creation of new firms, and exploring broader issues such as the productivity effects of firms’ investment spending and the composition of the labor force.

PrivCo provides business and financial research on major privately-held companies, including private market mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, and private equity.

Newspaper articles, court cases, legislation, tax research, company financials, and more.

Scholarly articles, financial data, SWOT analyses, market research reports, industry reports, company profiles, case studies, and numerous other sources of information in all areas of business.
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Economic trends, forecasts, macroeconomics, microeconomics, international and national budgets and finance, business and industry analysis, domestic monetary and financial theory, institutional economics, economic growth, fluctuations, quantitative economic methods and data, systems, technological change, theory, urban and regional economics, public finance planning and implementation.
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Complete access to the full run of The Daily Oklahoman, with images, full-text searching, and browsing.

Newspaper Source Plus includes more than 860 full-text newspapers, providing more than 35 million full-text articles, and more than 857,000 television and radio news transcripts.

Provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States

Scholarly articles, books, and other sources in sociology and related fields.
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Please use Academic Search Complete or ProQuest Central for communication, journalism, media, and related fields.
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Grants, foundations, grant writing, private and public funding sources, philanthropy. Entries for 70,000 foundations and details on more than 150,000 grants.