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ORGA 201

This page includes information to help you get started finding sources for Research or Case Study assignments. 

Your Business Librarian, Martina King, is available to help you navigate the library's databases, develop search strategies, and troubleshoot access issues to the library's online resources.

See the Articles page and this video for finding peer reviewed articles!

Recommended Databases

To get you started, watch this video on how to search for company information. We recommend using one of the library's industry and company focused databases:

Case Study Assignment Parts and Corresponding Resources

 

Assignment Part Information Sources

Company & Industry Information

 

Industry information and market information - use IBIS World Industry Reports  - look for Major Companies in the left menu for more company specific information

Company Annual Balance Sheets and Reports: Mergent - products and services, stakeholders 

Financial and SWOT Reports: Business Insights: Essentials

Identify Company Problems

Statista: Search your company name for stats - note the citation information on the right of each chart.

Business Insights: Essentials: Search your company name and click on "news" to see articles. 

Identify Solutions
 

See the Professional Sources page for a list of databases with business industry and news articles. You can look up similar case studies in the Sage Business Cases database to get ideas. 

The library subscribes to the following Journals and more, so you can get access:

Bloomberg Businessweek

Forbes

Fortune

Harvard Business Review

The Economist 

 

 
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