Researching Companies for Case Studies
Identifying Companies
| Gathering Further
Information | Shareholder lawsuits | Additional Resources
Researching Organizations / Non-Profits for Case Studies
Identifying Organizations / Non-Profits | Gathering
Further Information
Researching Governmental Organizations for Case Studies
Identifying Government Organizations | Gathering Further Information
Searching for literature in the field of Sociology and related
fields
List of databases / resources
Identifying
Companies
by type
of business, location, size, etc.
The following company directories will allow
you to identify companies through screening on a variety of criteria,
such as by Industry or SIC and / or NAICS codes, location, sales, company
size, and public vs. private companies.
Enter site and click on "Build a List." The Kellogg School of Management subscribes
to the premium content of this directory of public and
private US and foreign companies.
It is available within the NU community. Go
in and click on Build Company List.
Directory information on over 12 million U.S. businesses, from large corporations down to small local businesses. Searchable by multiple
criteria.
Gathering
Further Information on Companies
Once you've identified companies,
your next step will be to find background information, whether
that
be about the company's financial situation, products, history,
recent news
and events, etc. Along with visiting the company's own website,
look
to the following sources...
Financial and background information on 30,000 US and foreign
public companies, including annual reports.
Business news and research articles from over 1,500 periodicals.
A majority is full text online.
Business news and research articles from several
thousand periodicals. A majority is full text online. Also includes
some company reports and profiles from Datamonitor. These reports
include SWOT analyses (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities,
and Threats).
Includes full text of several thousand general news and business
news sources. Enter site and click on "News" or "Business".
Includes over 5,000 business
publications. Mostly full text online. Searchability
is not as advanced as ABI and Business & Industry,
but there is more content. Includes full
text of the Wall St. Journal. Enter
site and click on "Search".
Both of the above resources provide inside info on various companies and employers, as well as industries.
International directory of company histories. MAIN Reference
(Management corner) (Non-circulating). Call number: L 338.88025
I61. Library has: v.1 (1988)-v.72 (2005)
Shareholder Lawsuits
Additional Resources
Identifying Organizations / Non-Profits
Organizations, Charities,
Associations, Educational Institutions...
Evaluates over 5,000 of America's best-known
charities through the use of financial documents.
Directory of associations, professional societies and organizations.
The printed version is available at:
Encyclopedia of Associations Main
Reference Desk 061 G151e
Other editions available in print but not online:
Encyclopedia of Associations. International Organizations Main
Reference Desk L 061 G151ei
Encyclopedia of Associations. Regional, State, and
Local Organizations Great Lakes States Main
Reference Desk L 061.7 E56
*Free registration is required
to use this site.* National database of U.S. charitable organizations.
Gathers and distributes
data
on more
than
850,000 IRS-recognized nonprofits based on those organizations'
IRS 990 forms.
Gathering Further Information on
Organizations
Along with visiting the organization's
own website, look to the following sources for background information...
News Sources
Several thousand general news, business and legal publications.
Citations, abstracts and selected full-text of articles in a
variety of academic disciplines.
Content of the Tribune from 1985 to the present.
Research Articles and Literature
PAIS
International NU
Community
Citations in public policy, social policy and the social sciences.
Worldwide
Political Science Abstracts NU Community
Citations and abstracts to the international literature of political science.
CIAO:
Columbia International Affairs Online NU
Community
Covers topics in international affairs, collected largely
from university- and foundation-funded research institutes,
non-governmental organizations and academic conferences.
ERIC NU Community
Citations and abstracts of articles in education and related
fields.
ERIC searchers may also want to search Education
Abstracts for
additional information.
ABI/Inform
ProQuest NU Community
Business news and research articles from over 1,500 periodicals.
A majority is full text online. Also includes research covering
the non-profit sector.
Identifying Governmental Organizations
Main Government Publications Reference Room L 341.2 E89
Directory of international inter-governmental organizations and non-governmental organizations.
Gathering Further Information on Governmental Organizations
Lexis Nexis Congressional
Indexes and provides access to Congressional publications on a wide range of topics.
GPO Access: Congressional Hearings
Searching for literature in the
field of Sociology and related fields
Sociological
Abstracts NU Community
Citations and abstracts of articles from approximately 2500
journals, as well as conference papers, dissertations, book
reviews and selected sociology books. The database covers sociology
and sociological topics in fields such as anthropology, economics,
education, medicine, community development, philosophy, demography,
political science and social psychology.
Web
of Science NU Community
Contains three individual databases which may
be searched separately or simultaneously: Science Citation
Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index,
and Arts & Humanities
Citation Index. Among these databases, virtually all areas
of scholarship are covered. Users may
search by topic, author, source title, or by cited reference:
authors and titles from an article's bibliography. Searches
may also lead to related records: articles with citations
in common.
For further assistance, please the Reference Department -- 847-491-7656 or refdept@northwestern.edu.
In addition, the following librarians have worked with members of this class before and are available to assist you.
Jeannette Moss
Reference and Instruction Librarian
Northwestern University Library
Reference Department
(847) 491-2169
j-moss@northwestern.edu
Natalie Pelster
Reference and Instruction Librarian
Northwestern University Library
Reference Department
(847) 491-8735
n-pelster@northwestern.edu
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