Business - industry information

From the Business Reference course given by ALA.

http://yahoo.investor.reuters.com/

http://www.vault.com/nr/ht_list.jsp?ht_type=7

http://www.library.hbs.edu/guides/#3

http://www.census.gov/econ/census02/index.html

http://www.marketresearch.com/

http://www.ita.doc.gov/td/industry/otea/outlook/

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/toc/05_02/B39150502industry.htm

http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/industries/

http://www.fuld.com/Tindex/I3.html

http://www.loc.gov/rr/business/assists/indsur.html

Ratio and commonsize analysis:

http://www.netmba.com/finance/statements/common-size/

http://www.bankrate.com/brm/news/biz/bizcalcs/ratiocalcs.asp

http://www.bizstats.com/

Also:

Reports from U.S. census on manufacturing: 2005 annual survey of manufacturers; statistics for industry groups and industries, product shipments, and geographic area statistics

http://www.docuticker.com/?p=8805

Preliminary study shows R & D comtributes to economic growth

http://www.bea.gov/bea/newsrelarchive/2006/rdreport06.pdf

Aviation industry:

2006 airline quality rating

http://www.aqr.aero/aqrreports/AQR2006final.pdf

Airline statistics

http://transtats.bts.gov/carriers.asp

Airport statistics

http://transtats.bts.gov/airports.asp

Aviation statistics

http://transtats.bts.gov/dtabases.asp?Mode_ID=1&Mode_Desc=Aviation&Subject_ID2=0

Productivity and costs by industry: Manufacturing, 2005

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/prin.pdf

Private goods and private services sectors accelerated in 2006

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/industry/gdpindustry/2007/pdf/gdpind06.pdf

National Cable and Telecommunications Association 2007 Industry Overview

http://i.ncta.com/ncta_com/PDFs/NCTA_Annual_Report_04.24.07.pdf

Airline Industry Data bibliography

http://www.resourceshelf.com/2007/01/11/resource-of-the-week-airline-industry-data/

Nearly 109,000 Auto Retailing Positions Available in the U.S.

http://www.autoretailing.org/release052207.html

Arts as an Industry: Their Economic Impact on New York City and New York State

http://www.allianceforarts.org/research/artsasindustry_2007.pdf

Financial News for Independent Energy Companies, First Quarter 2007

http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/perfpro/news_i/index.html

Retail and consumer aspects of the organic milk market

http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/LDP/2007/05May/LDPM15501/ldpm15501.pdf


Automotive industries: Concentration and change

http://www.bls.gov/opub/ils/pdf/opbils59.pdf

Multifactor productivity trends for detailed manufacturing industries, 2005

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/prin3.pdf

New York Public Library Science, Industry and Business Library Research Guides

http://www.nypl.org/research/sibl/guides/

Business Plans and Profiles Index: A subject guide to sample business plans and profiles for specific business types

http://www.carnegielibrary.org/subject/business/bplansindex.html

American Greyhound Track Operators Association Report to the Community

http://www.agtoa.com/community.asp

Worker Substance Use by Industry Category

http://oas.samhsa.gov/2k7/industry/worker.cfm

Productivity and costs by industry: Wholesale trade, retail trade, and food services and drinking places, 2006

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/prin.pdf

Rising incomes cushion economy: Finding highly-skilled workers remains a long-term challenge for manufacturers. The 10th annual Labor Day report.

http://www.nam.org/s_nam/bin.asp?CID=147&DID=239205&DOC=FILE.PDF

Study results detail cruise industry's $35.7 billion contribution to U.S. economy

http://www.cruising.org/CruiseNews/news.cfm?NID=273

Eleven measures of airline performance, 2001-2006

http://www.bts.gov/programs/airline_information/performance_measures_in_the_airline_industry/2006_summary/

Small business resources

From the Business Reference 101 course given by ALA.

http://www.sba.gov/

http://www.score.org/

http://www.carnegielibrary.org/subject/business/bplansindex.html

http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/business-plans/

http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/small/

http://www.library.hbs.edu/guides/venture/

http://www.hillsource.org/asbdc/

http://www.irs.gov/

Also - state and local government sites


Other small business information:

Volatility and asymmetry of small firm growth rates over increasing time frames

http://www.sba.gov/advo/research/rs285tot.pdf

Small business survival index 2006: ranking the policy environment for entrepreneurship across the nation

http://www.sbecouncil.org/Media/pdf/SBSI_2006.pdf

Small business-state economic profiles

http://www.sba.gov/advo/research/profiles/

Firm size data

http://www.sba.gov/advo/research/data.html


Half of U.S. businesses are home-based, majority of firms self-financed, Census Bureau reports

http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/business_ownership/007537.html

Small Business Association Frequently Asked Questions

http://www.sba.gov/advo/stats/sbfaq.pdf

Small businesses and workplace fatality risk: an exploratory analysis

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/2006/RAND_TR371.pdf

Franchise high performers list

http://www.startupjournal.com/franchise/performers/index.asp

Small Business Week 2006

http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/facts_for_features_special_editions/006601.html

National Association of Manufacturers' Small Manufacturers Operating Survey Results

http://www.nam.org/s_nam/bin.asp?CID=372&DID=237415&DOC=FILE.PDF

The value to banks of small business lending

http://www.sba.gov/advo/press/07-14.html

Banking Deregulation, Financing Constraints and Entrepreneurship

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-033.pdf

NFIB Releases Small Business Health-Care Survey Results

http://www.nfib.com/object/IO_33470.html

Family to Family: Laird Norton Tyee Family Business Survey 2007

http://www.familybusinesssurvey.com/

Nearly Half of Small Firms Had No Employee Turnover in Past 12 Months

http://www.nfib.com/object/IO_34275.html

Second Quarter 2007: The Economy and Small Business

http://www.sba.gov/advo/research/sbqei0702.pdf


Entrepreneurship and Firm Formation Across Countries

http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/IW3P/IB/2007/08/13/000158349_20070813105025/Rendered/PDF/wps4313.pdf

Business Plans and Profiles Index: A subject guide to sample business plans and profiles for specific business types

http://www.carnegielibrary.org/subject/business/bplansindex.html

Occupational licensing: Ranking the states and exploring alternatives

http://www.reason.org/ps361/

What Is the Value of Entrepreneurship? A Review of Recent Research

http://ftp.iza.org/dp3014.pdf

Business sources - company and finance

These are from the Business Reference 101 course given by ALA.

Free online company information sources:

http://www.hoovers.com/

http://finance.yahoo.com/

http://www.specialissues.com/lol/

http://www.loc.gov/rr/business/company/rankings.html

http://www.sec.gov/

Fee-based online company directories:

http://www.dnbmdd.com/mddi/

http://www.referenceusa.com/

http://www.valueline.com/

Historical stock prices:

http://www.bigcharts.com/

Sources for learning about corporate finance:

http://www.duke.edu/~charvey/Classes/wpg/glossary.htm

http://philanthropy.ml.com/ipo/resources/pdf/howtoreadfinreport.pdf

http://www.ibm.com/investor/tools/financials.phtml

http://www.sos.mo.gov/securities/pubs/How%20to%20Read%20A%20Prospectus_01.2005.pdf

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/01_20/b3732001.htm

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_09/b3772114.htm

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_05/b3768111.htm

Finding and using economic statistics:

http://www.nabe.com/publib/links/index.html

Also:

Which states are best for business? The 2007 state business tax climate index:

http://www.taxfoundation.org/press/show/1923.html

CEO compensation, 2006

http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/04/17/06ceo-compensation_land.html

100 Smartest Companies

http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,1540,1945941,00.asp

Best performing cities, 2005: Where America's jobs are created and sustained

http://www.milkeninstitute.org/publications/publications.taf?function=detail&ID=478&cat=ResRep

America's most admired companies, 2006

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/mostadmired/index.html

Business Plans and Profiles Index

http://www.carnegielibrary.org/subject/business/bplansindex.html

Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Department of Commerce

http://www.bea.gov/index.html

Companies: Beware hazards of getting big too fast

http://mansci.journal.informs.org/cgi/reprint/53/4/683.pdf

Wal-Mart's #1 Business Problem

http://www.wakeupwalmart.com/feature/bizproblems/

20 Investments: Introduction

http://www.investopedia.com/university/20_investments/

Government information and statistics

University of Michigan Documents Center:

http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/

Governments on the WWW:

http://www.gksoft.com/govt/en/

FirstGov:

http://www.usa.gov/

Directory of online statistics sources:

http://www.berinsteinresearch.com/stats.htm

USA Statistics in Brief:

http://www.census.gov/statab/www/brief.html

FedStats:

http://www.fedstats.gov/

CIA World Factbook:

http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/

Government Printing Office:

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/

THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet:

http://thomas.loc.gov/

Bureau of Labor Statistics home page:

http://www.bls.gov/

Florida Electronic Federal Depository Library:

http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/fefdl/

Another American president site:

http://www.millercenter.virginia.edu/programs/ampres/index.html

Background Notes, U.S. Department of State:

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/

NationMaster - country statistics portal:

http://www.nationmaster.com/

OFFSTATS: Official Statistics on the Web:

http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/stats/offstats/

State and Metropolitan Area Data Book 2006

http://www.census.gov/compendia/smadb/

U.S. Adds 112,000 New Employer Establishments in 2005

http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/county_business_patterns/010192.html

International business

GlobalEDGE at Michigan State University:

http://globaledge.msu.edu/ibrd/ibrd.asp

Others:

http://www.nationmaster.com/

http://www.fortune.com/fortune/global500

http://www.ipl.org/div/news/

http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/stats/offstats/

http://www.unctad.org/Templates/Page.asp?intltemID=1717<=1

Country information:

Harvard Business School Library Country Guides

http://www.library.hbs.edu/guides/#4

Intersource Country Insights from the Centre for Intercultural Learning

http://www.intercultures.ca/cil-cai/country_insights-en.asp?lvl=8

Country Briefings from the Economist

http://www.economist.com/countries/

CIA World Factbook

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/

Country Analysis Briefs from the Energy Information Administration

http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/contents.html

State Department Country Background Notes

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/

Export.gov's Country and Industry Market Reports

http://www.export.gov/marketresearch.html

International Monetary Fund Country Information

http://www.imf.org/external/country/index.htm

International search engine

http://www.searchenginecolossus.com/

Annual reports for foreign companies

http://www.carol.co.uk/

http://www.sedar.com/

Individual country websites

World Competitiveness Scoreboard 2006:

http://www02.imd.ch/documents/wcc/content/overallgraph.pdf

Top 100 European companies:

http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=17675&hed=Top+100+European+Companies

Europe's work force:

http://epp.eurostat.cec.eu.int/cache/ITY_OFFPUB/KS-NS-06-011/EN/KS-NS-06-011-EN.PDF

International labor market comparisons:

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2006/04/ressum.pdf

The World's Most Innovative Companies:

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06-17/b3981413.htm

International Economic Statistics database:

http://liber8.stlouisfed.org/iesd/

KPMG's guide to international business costs:

http://www.competitivealternatives.com/

U.S. Barriers to Trade and Investment 2005:

http://trade-info.cec.eu.int/doclib/docs/2006/march/tradoc_127632.pdf

Economic survey of Brazil, 2006

http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/47/47/37667205.pdf

International Market Research

http://www.buyusainfo.net/

China and India: The reality beyond the hype

http://www.deloitte.com/dtt/cda/doc/content/US_ChinaIndiaReality_Research.pdf

International Association of Outsourcing Professionals

http://www.outsourcingprofessional.org/content/23/152/1197/

Competitive alternatives: KPMG's guide to international business costs

http://www.competitivealternatives.com/

Country profiles, Federal Research Division, Library of Congress

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/profiles.html

South Africa: Macroeconomic challenges after a decade of success

http://ksgnotes1.harvard.edu/Reserch/wpaper.nsf/rwp/RWP07-021

Economic survey of New Zealand 2007

http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/30/20/38418204.pdf

2007 Economic Developments and Prospects: Job creation in an era of high growth - Middle East and North Africa

http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTMENA/Resources/EDP_2007_REPORT_APRIL13.pdf

Statistical yearbook for Latin America and the Caribbean 2006

http://websie.eclac.cl/anuario_estadistico/anuario_2006/eng/index.asp

U.S. Commercial Service - Guides to doing business in other countries:

http://www.buyusainfo.net/

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

http://opencrs.cdt.org/document/RS21128

Beyond microfinance: Getting capital to small and medium enterprises to fuel faster development

http://www.brookings.edu/comm/policybriefs/pb159.htm

The challenge of economic reform in the Arab world: Toward more productive economies

http://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/cmec_1_econ_reform_final.pdf

World Economic Situation and Prospects 2007

http://www.un.org/esa/policy/wess/wesp.html

Issues in International Political Economy - The U.S. Midterm Elections and Globalization

http://www.csis.org/component/option,com_csis_pubs/task,view/id,3594/type,1/

Energy Information Administration Country Analysis Briefs

http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/index.html

Informality in LAC – A Barrier to Growth and Social Welfare [Latin America and Caribbean]

http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:21345369~pagePK:34370~piPK:34424~theSitePK:4607,00.html

Economic and social survey of Asia and the Pacific 2007

http://www.unescap.org/survey2007/download/index.asp?q=1

World Competitiveness Yearbook 2007

http://www.imd.ch/research/publications/wcy/announcing.cfm?bhcp=1

2007 World-wide quality of living survey

http://www.mercerhr.com/pressrelease/details.jhtml/dynamic/idContent/1173105;jsessionid=C1XLGVEBTMIAQCTGOUFCIIQKMZ0QUI2C

International Perspectives on Management & Employment: The Global Call Center Report

http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/globalcallcenter/

World Economic Situation and Prospects 2007

http://www.un.org/esa/policy/wess/wesp.html


The Growth of China and India in World Trade: Opportunity or Threat for Latin America and the Caribbean?

http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/IW3P/IB/2007/08/14/000158349_20070814104424/Rendered/PDF/wps4320.pdf

The Arab World Competitiveness Report 2007

http://www.weforum.org/en/initiatives/gcp/Arab%20World%20Competitiveness%20Report/index.htm

Nationmaster: World statistics, country comparisons

http://www.nationmaster.com/index.php

U.S. Department of State Background Notes: Country information

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/

Zibb: The Global Business Search Engine

http://www.zibb.com/

U.S. Commercial Service : Your Global Business Partner
Market Research Library

http://www.buyusainfo.net/adsearch.cfm?search_type=int&loadnav=no

Florida's Global Economic Competitiveness

http://www.eflorida.com/intelligencecenter/reports/Florida_Global_Economic_Competitiveness.pdf

The State of Business and HIV/AIDS 2006: A Baseline Report

http://www.businessfightsaids.org/site/pp.asp?c=gwKXJfNVJtF&b=1716123

Energy Information Administration Country Analysis Briefs

http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/index.html

Cultural Awareness and Country Information Resources

http://www.resourceshelf.com/2007/02/15/resources-of-the-week-cultural-awareness-and-country-information/

Latin America and the Caribbean in the World Economy 2006. Trends 2007.

http://www.eclac.cl/cgi-bin/getProd.asp?xml=/publicaciones/xml/8/29528/P29528.xml&xsl=/comercio/tpl-i/p9f.xsl&base=/comercio/tpl/top-bottom.xsl

Economic and demographic statistics

Economic indicators:

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/indicators/browse.html

United Nations Statistics Division:

http://unstats.un.org/unsd/default.htm

Economic survey of the United States 2007: Executive summary

http://www.oecd.org/document/47/0,2340,en_2649_34487_38630639_1_1_1_1,00.html

OECD Factbook 2007 - Economic, Environmental and Social Statistics

http://titania.sourceoecd.org/vl=29517506/cl=21/nw=1/rpsv/factbook/

2007 World-wide quality of living survey

http://www.mercerhr.com/pressrelease/details.jhtml/dynamic/idContent/1173105;jsessionid=C1XLGVEBTMIAQCTGOUFCIIQKMZ0QUI2C


The Changing Demographic Profile of the United States

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL32701.pdf

Liber8: The Research Library of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

http://liber8.stlouisfed.org/

Bureau of Labor Statistics home page

http://www.bls.gov/

NationMaster: World Statistics, Country Comparisons

http://www.nationmaster.com/index.php

U.S. Department of State Background Notes: Country information

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/

Consumer Price Indexes, Sixteen Countries, 1950-2006

ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/ForeignLabor/flscpian.txt