N o r t h e a s t e r n   S t a t e   U n i v e r s i t y - Broken Arrow	Tahlequah Broken Arrow Muskogee
	Services for: Students - Faculty/Staff - Guests - Distance Education

Strategic Management
MBA 5413

NSU Broken Arrow

Tom Messner Director

Getting Started:

NSU Broken Arrow Library Home Page http://library.nsuok.edu/nsuba/index.html

NSU John Vaughan Library Home Page : http://library.nsuok.edu/index.html

top

 Journal Indexes (search for articles in journals and magazines on your topic)

http://library.nsuok.edu/Resources/Indexes/index.html

1.) Ebscohost-"Family of databases"

A.) Business Source Elite

Business Source Complete (Trial for a limited time only)

Provides full text for over 1,060 journals covering business, management, economics, finance, banking, accounting, and much more.

B.) Academic Search

Provides full text for nearly 1,560 journals covering the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education,

and much more.

C.) MasterFILE Premier

Provides full text for over 1,880 periodicals covering nearly all subjects including general reference, business, health, and much more.

2.) Proquest (ABI Inform)

Includes selected full text and images of a wide variety of business journals.

3.) Wilson OmniFile

Wilson OmniFile: Full Text Mega Edition is a multi-disciplinary database providing the complete content - indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six of Wilson's full-text databases:

Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, Wilson Business Full Text

4.) OCLC FirstSearch

PerAbs (Periodical Abstracts)

Indexing to a broad array of specialized databases -some fulltext available.

top

 Newspapers (good for current events)

1.) Newsbank and Ebscohost Newspapers(on the newspapers page)-includes full text articles from several national newspapers. http://library.nsuok.edu/Refdesk/newspapers/index.html

2).Yahoo Newspapers by country:

http://dir.yahoo.com/News_and_Media/Newspapers/By_Region/Countries/

top

Classification Codes

North American Industry Classification (NAIC) http://www.census.gov/epcd/www/naics.html

Schedule B Export Codes: http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/schedules/b/

International trade codes: http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/reference/codes/index.html#hts

SIC Classification Codes for products and services: http://www.bizminer.com/SIC-industry-description.asp

top

 Corporate Information

1.) Mergent online

Mergent provides a fully searchable database of 15,000 U.S. public companies (active and inactive) listed on the NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ exchanges. Each company report incorporates up-to-the-minute news items.

Mergent Online offers access to Wall Street consensus earnings estimates on all companies in the database followed by at least one Wall Street analyst. Mergent's company files also provide access to EDGAR^® filings dating back to 1993 and updated daily.

Rich textual descriptions offer a wealth of detail on items including business description, history, property, subsidiaries, officers and directors, long-term debt and capital stock. Financial statements are presented in "as-reported" form and in native currencies, maintaining the full integrity of this critical information

2.) Thomson Analytics Excellent tool for researching peer corporations within predetermined or customizable peer groups.

3) Annual reports from Annualreports.com  free online annual reports to shareholders for most major US corporations.

4.) Mission Statements/ Values Statements, etc. These items are usually found on the corporation’s web site.  At other times, these

Items are found in annual reports to shareholders or other official documents.

top

 International Trade Statistics

1.) Foreign Trade Statistics

http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/statistics/country/index.html

2.) Statistical Abstract of the United States http://www.census.gov/prod/2002pubs/01statab/stat-ab01.html

3.) STAT-USA (Requires password-Must be used in the library only. See library staff for login information) http://www.stat-usa.gov/

A.)GLOBUS & NTDB -- Access this area for current and historical trade-related

4.) State Export Data: http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/statistics/state/index.html

top

External Environment

1.) Trends in demography, culture, technology and politics impact the business environment in which business seek to operate.

The business literature is an excellent source for locating and identifying various trends. Journal databases such as:

  Proquest (ABI Inform)

 Wilson OmniFile

 Business Source Elite

Can be useful in searching business literature.  Within these database, publications such as Brandweek, and Advertising Age  are excellent

resources for locating various trends. Be sure to incorporate into your search such terms as:

            trend* (ie social trend*)

            new development*

            prediction*

            forecast*

as well as related terms.

2.) Economic Indicators concerning the United States economy  can be located at the following sites:

a.) Economic Indicators. gov  Economic Indicators.gov is brought to you by the Economics and Statistics Administration at the U.S. Department of Commerce.

 It provides timely access to the daily releases of key economic indicators from the Bureau of Economic Analysis and the U.S. Census Bureau.

b. ) Federal Reserve Statistics 

            Beige Book Commonly known as the Beige Book, this report is published eight times per year. Each Federal Reserve Bank gathers anecdotal information on current economic conditions in its District through reports from Bank and Branch directors and interviews with key business contacts, economists, market experts, and other sources. The Beige Book summarizes this information by District and sector. An overall summary of the twelve district reports is prepared by a designated Federal Reserve Bank on a rotating basis.

c.) Wachovia Monthly Economic Forecasts

            Wachovia Economic Indicator Analysis

d.) Survey of professional forecasters  The Survey of Professional Forecasters is the oldest quarterly survey of macroeconomic forecasts in the United States. The survey began in 1968 and was conducted by the American Statistical Association and the National Bureau of Economic Research. The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia took over the survey in 1990.

e.) White House: Economic Statistics Briefing Room

f.) Conference Board: Business Cycle Indicators such as leading indicators for US and several foreign countries

3.) Global Economy Factors

a.) World Bank Prospects for the global economy

top

Competitive Industry Analysis

            Print Resources

Standard and Poor’s Industry Surveys :                      Call Number:  HC106.6 .S74                       location: Reference collection NSU BA Library

Standard and Poor’s (NetAdvantage) Online version of the Standard and Poors Surveys and Corporate Records

Standard & Poor's Industry Surveys are the fastest way to come up to speed on the players and events impacting over fifty (50) of the largest North American and global industries. Ideal for management consultants, strategic planners, money managers, public and academic librarians, students, and business faculty; Standard & Poor's Industry Surveys enable readers to think and act like industry insiders.

Each report is authored by a Standard & Poor's industry research analyst and includes the following sections: Current Environment, Industry Trends, How the Industry Operates, Key Industry Ratios and Statistics, How to Analyze a Company, Glossary of Industry Terms, Additional Industry Information References and Comparative Company Financial Analysis.

Manufacturing & Distribution USA:                              Call Number:  Ref HD 9721.M3495 2003    3 volumes          location: Reference collection NSU BA Library

Almanac of Business and Industrial Financial Ratios: (Also know as the “Troy Almanac”) Call number Ref HF 5681 .R25 T68 location : Reference collection NSU BA Library

Annual Statement Studies/RMA                                    Call number: Ref  HF 5681 .B2 R58                       Location: Reference collection NSU BA Library

 Online Resources

Industry Center : Yahoo Finance:      http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/ind_index.html

US Census Bureau   Business and Economic Statistics