Search engines for business research

Zibb: The Global Business Search Engine

http://www.zibb.com/

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

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

Harvard Business School Baker Library Research Guides

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

The Virtual Chase: Database of Sources

http://www.virtualchase.com/topics/index.html

BusinessDictionary.com

http://www.businessdictionary.com/

The Way We Worked: Photographs from the National Archives (Business History)

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/twww/

Florida - related information

How Disasters Affect Local Labor Markets: The Effects of Hurricanes in Florida

http://ftp.iza.org/dp2976.pdf

Innovation

Value, Protect, Exploit: How Managing Intellectual Property Can Build and Sustain Competitive Advantage

http://www.deloitte.com/dtt/cda/doc/content/us_tmt_ManagingIP_072607.pdf


A Comparative Approach to the Protection of Fashion Innovations

http://repositories.cdlib.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1040&context=bclt

Leadership and supervision

Training Supervisors to be Leaders: A Missing Element in Efforts to Improve Federal Performance

http://www.govexec.com/pdfs/ALI_thompsonreport.pdf

Executive Excess 2007: The Staggering Social Cost of U.S. Business Leadership

http://www.ips-dc.org/reports/070829-executiveexcess.pdf

Hospitality and tourism

The Effects of Organizational Standards and Support Functions on Guest Service and Guest Satisfaction in Restaurants

http://www.hotelschool.cornell.edu/chr/research/abstract.html?repid=14462

Cornell University Center for Hospitality Research

http://www.hotelschool.cornell.edu/chr/

Workplace injuries and illness

NIOSH Fatal Occupational Injury Cost Fact Sheets

http://www.docuticker.com/?p=8341

Workplace injuries and illnesses in 2005

ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/news.release/osh.text


Postal Service’s Workplace Safety and Workplace-Related Injury Reduction Goals and Progress

http://www.uspsoig.gov/FOIA_files/HM-AR-07-002.pdf


National Census of fatal occupational injuries in 2006

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

Workers' Compensation: Benefits, Coverage and Costs, 2005

http://www.nasi.org/usr_doc/NASI_Workers_Comp_2005_Full_Report.pdf

Older workers

Why do boomers plan to work so long?

http://www.bc.edu/centers/crr/papers/wp_2006-19.pdf

Age, women and hiring: an experimental study

http://www.bc.edu/centers/crr/papers/wp_2006-23.pdf

How do age discrimination laws affect older workers?

http://www.bc.edu/centers/crr/issues/wob_5.pdf

Engaging and retaining older workers

http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d07438sp.pdf

Older Americans Update 2006: Key Indicators of Well-Being

http://www.agingstats.gov/agingstatsdotnet/Main_Site/Data/2006_Documents/OA_2006.pdf
Labor Market Rigidities and the Employment Behavior of Older Workers

http://ftp.iza.org/dp2996.pdf

What explains trends in labor force participation of older men in the United States?

http://ftp.iza.org/dp2991.pdf

Business and the environment

EarthTrends Searchable Database: Economics, Business and the Environment:

http://earthtrends.wri.org/searchable_db/index.php?theme=5

2006 Corporate Governance and Climate Change: Making the Connection

http://www.ceres.org/pub/publication.php?pid=84

Energy Strategy for the Future: U.S. EPA

http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=business.bus_energy_strategy

International and immigrant labor

International comparisons of hourly compensation costs for production workers in manufacturing

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/ichcc.toc.htm

Global manpower employment outlook survey 2007

http://www.manpower.com/mpcom/VisualLibraryMEOS.jsp?quarterID=63&articleID=373

A visual essay: international labor market comparisons

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

The role of immigrants in the U.S. labor market

http://www.cbo.gov/showdoc.cfm?index=8024&sequence=0

Comparative civilian labor force statistics, ten countries, 1960-2006:

http://www.bls.gov/fls/flscomparelf.htm

Foreign-born workers: labor force characteristics in 2006

http://www.bls.gov/news.re.ease/pdf/forbrn.pdf

International comparison of labour statistics 2006:

http://www.jil.go.jp/english/estatis/databook/index.htm

Hourly compensation costs for production workers in manufacturing, 33 countries or areas, 22 manufacturing industries, 1992-2005

http://www.bls.gov/fls/flshcindnaics.htm

Farm Labor Shortages and Immigration Policy

http://opencrs.cdt.org/document/RL30395/

A visual essay: international labor market comparisons

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

International Comparison of Labour Statistics 2007

http://www.jil.go.jp/english/estatis/databook/index.htm

Working time flexibility in European companies

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/htmlfiles/ef0739.htm

Working Time Around The World - One in five workers worldwide are putting in "excessive" hours: New ILO study spotlights working time in over 50 countries

http://www.ilo.org/global/About_the_ILO/Media_and_public_information/Press_releases/lang--en/WCMS_082827


The flexibility of working time arrangements for women and men [European Union]

http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_OFFPUB/KS-SF-07-096/EN/KS-SF-07-096-EN.PDF

1995-2005: Foreign-born Latinos make progress on wages

http://pewresearch.org/pubs/572/latino-wages

Department of Labor's Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, 2001-2006

http://www.dol.gov/ILAB/media/reports/iclp/main.htm

Intellectual Property, the Immigration Backlog, and a Reverse Brain-Drain: America's New Immigrant Entrepreneurs

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1008366

China

Trade balances and jobs: Canada, the U.S. and China

http://policyalternatives.ca/documents/National_Office_Pubs/2007/Trade_Balances_and_Jobs.pdf

China's trade with the U.S. and the world

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL31403.pdf

Is China a threat to the U.S. economy?

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL33604.pdf

China's banking sector: growing towards diversification

http://www.deloitte.com/dtt/cda/doc/content/dtt_Boao_BankingEng041807.pdf

Growing pains: the evolving U.S.-China trade relationship

http://www.freetrade.org/pubs/FTBs/FTB-028.html

What's the difference? - Comparing U.S. and Chinese trade data

http://opencrs.cdt.org/document/RS22640

Doing Business in China:

http://www.buyusainfo.net/docs/x_3265405.pdf

Five challenges that China must overcome to sustain economic growth:

http://www.house.gov/jec/publications/109/07-27-06china_economy.pdf

China's car makers 10 years away from being competitive in US and Europe

http://graphics.eiu.com/files/ad_pdfs/eiu_Roland_Berger_China_Cars.pdf

China and India: The reality beyond the hype

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

Surviving the China riptide: How to profit from the supply chain bottleneck

http://www.bcg.com/publications/files/ChinaRipTideMay07.pdf

China’s economic prospects 2006-2020

http://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/cp_83_polaski_final.pdf

What are the High-Probability Challenges to Continued High Growth in China?

http://www3.brookings.edu/views/papers/20070522woo.pdf

China's economic fluctuations and their implications for its rural economy

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


China’s Growing Demand for Oil and Its Impact on U.S. Petroleum Markets

http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/71xx/doc7128/04-07-ChinaOil.pdf


Doing Business In China: A Country Commercial Guide for U.S. Companies

http://www.buyusainfo.net/docs/x_3265405.pdf

China - U.S. Trade Issues

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL33536.pdf

China's Currency: Economic Issues and Options for U.S. Trade Policy

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL32165.pdf

Strengthening China's Technological Capability

http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/IW3P/IB/2007/08/09/000158349_20070809111012/Rendered/PDF/wps4309.pdf

China's Economic Prospects 2006-2020

http://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/cp_83_polaski_final.pdf

What's the Difference? Comparing U.S. and Chinese Trade Data

http://opencrs.cdt.org/document/RS22640

Global Value Chain Self-Assessment Tool: Overview of Results for China

http://www.csis.org/component/option,com_csis_pubs/task,view/id,4015/type,1/

Is the Chinese Growth Miracle Built to Last?

http://ftp.iza.org/dp2995.pdf

Health and Safety Concerns over U.S. Imports of Chinese Products: An Overview

http://www.opencrs.com/rpts/RS22713_20070828.pdf

China's Holdings of U.S. Securities: Implications for the U.S. Economy (01/09/08)

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL34314.pdf

China's Economic Fluctuations: Implications for Its Rural Economy (2007)

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

Business ethics and related issues

Rethinking corporate social responsibility: a U.S. perspective

http://www.csrresults.com/

Racial diversity initiatives in professional service firms: what factors differentiate successful from unsuccessful initiatives?

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-019.pdf

Ethical and scientific issues of nanotechnology in the workplace

http://www.ehponline.org/members/2006/9456/9456.pdf

Implicit discrimination in hiring: real world evidence

http://ftp.iza.org/dp2764.pdf

Reluctant gatekeepers: corporate ethics on a filtered internet

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=978507

How do age discrimination laws affect older workers?

http://www.bc.edu/centers/crr/issues/wob_5.pdf

Evidence of unequal treatment in hiring against obese applicants: A field experiment

http://ftp.iza.org/dp2275.pdf

Social Isolation and American Workers: Employee Blogging and Legal Reform

http://jolt.law.harvard.edu/articles/pdf/v20/20HarvJLTech287.pdf

2007 World's Most Ethical Companies

http://ethisphere.com/2007-worlds-most-ethical-companies/

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Releases 2006 Ethical Sourcing Report

http://www.walmartfacts.com/articles/5235.aspx

Knowledgable consumers? Corporate fraud and its devastating impacts

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/rel/ccjs/knowledgeable-consumer-2007.pdf

Why We Aren't as Ethical as We Think We Are: A Temporal Explanation

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5763.html

Women in the workforce

U.S. Department of Labor Women's Bureau

http://www.dol.gov/wb/

Women in the labor force 2005

http://www.dol.gov/wb/factsheets/Qf-laborforce-05.htm

Ask a working woman survey report 2006

http://www.stirringthepot.org/media/AWWsurvey.pdf

Changes in behavioral and characteristic determination of female labor force participation, 1975-2005:

http://www.frbatlanta.org/filelegacydocs/erq206_hotchkiss.pdf

Age, women and hiring: an experimental study

http://www.bc.edu/centers/crr/papers/wp_2006-23.pdf

Moms and Jobs: Trends in Mothers’ Employment and Which Mothers Stay Home

http://www.contemporaryfamilies.org/subtemplate.php?t=factSheets&ext=momsandjobs

Women at Work: A Progress Report

http://dallasfed.org/research/eclett/2007/el0705.html

The Impact of Minimum Wage Increases on Single Mothers

http://www.epionline.org/study_detail.cfm?sid=109

Marketing

How do consumers make choices? A summary of evidence from marketing and psychology

http://www.merit.unu.edu/publications/wppdf/2007/wp2007-005.pdf

The world's best brands

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_32/b3996410.htm

Consumer Expenditure Survey

http://www.bls.gov/cex/home.htm

U.S. Commercial Service Market Research Library

http://www.buyusainfo.net/adsearch.cfm?loadnav=no&RequestTimeout=2500

Purchasing, Pricing, and Quick Response in the Presence of Strategic Consumers

http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/paper.cfm?paperid=1350

Internet Advertising Revenues Grow 35% in '06, Hitting a Record Close to $17 BILLION

http://www.iab.net/news/pr_2007_05_23.asp

It's From Where? College Students Clueless on Where Favorite Brands Come From

http://www.andersonanalytics.com/newsfiles/20070524.htm

Information or Persuasion? An Empirical Investigation of the Effect of Advertising on Brand Awareness and Perceived Quality using Panel Data

https://gsbapps.stanford.edu/researchpapers/detail1.asp?Document_ID=2984

Trade

Trade agreements: impact on the U.S. economy

http://opencrs.cdt.org/document/RL31932


U.S. trade policy and the Caribbean: from trade preferences to free trade agreements

http://opencrs.cdt.org/document/RL33951


What's the difference? - Comparing U.S. and Chinese trade data

http://opencrs.cdt.org/document/RS22640


2007 National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers

http://www.ustr.gov/Document_Library/Reports_Publications/2007/2007_NTE_Report/Section_Index.html


2006 Surface Trade with Canada and Mexico Rose 8.9% from 2005

http://www.bts.gov/press_releases/2007/bts010_07/html/bts010_07.html


Are trade deficits a drag on U.S. economic growth?

http:/www.freetrade.org/pubs/FTBS/FTB-027.html

China's trade with the U.S. and the world

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL31403.pdf

Basic information and online sources for NAFTA and CAFTA research

http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/NAFTA_CAFTA_Research.htm

U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, 2006

http://www.bea.gov/bea/newsrelarchive/2006/trad0706.pdf

U.S. trade strategy: free vs. fair

http://www.cfr.org/content/publications/attachments/CPCTrade.pdf

Probable effect of certain modifications to the North American Free Trade Agreement Rules of Origin

http://hotdocs.usitc.gov/docs/pubs/103/pub3881.pdf

U.S.: 2006 National Export Strategy

http://www.ita.doc.gov/media/Publications/pdf/nes2006FINAL.pdf

The Doha round: no help for America's trade deficit?

http://www.morici-dohareport.org/index.asp

2007 AGOA Report Shows Growth in US Africa Trade

http://www.ustr.gov/assets/Trade_Development/Preference_Programs/AGOA/asset_upload_file762_11294.pdf

U.S. Freight Shipments with Canada and Mexico Reached a Record High in 2005, According to Three-Country Database

http://www.bts.gov/press_releases/2006/bts053_06/html/bts053_06.html

The Year in Trade 2006

http://hotdocs.usitc.gov/docs/pubs/year_in_trade/pub3927.pdf

Shifts in U.S. Merchandise Trade 2006

http://www.usitc.gov/tradeshifts/2007/default.htm

Labor and union issues

Discounting Rights: Wal-Mart's Violation of US Workers' Right to Freedom of Association

http://hrw.org/reports/2007/us0507

The potential impact of National Labor Relations Board's supervisor cases

http://www.epi.org/content.cfm/pm115

Unions and Upward Mobility for Low-Wage Workers

http://www.cepr.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1279&Itemid=8

Changes

In case anyone is watching...I'm changing this blog so that it only addresses issues related to business and management. I'm leaving everything that might possibly have to do with business, and moving everything else to del.icio.us. This will make the blog more user-friendly for our students.

It will take me a while to get everything moved over, so the non-business-related entries will disappear slowly.

Worker issues

The state of the American worker, 2006:

http://www.aei.org/publicopinion17/

The American Dream Survey 2006: Hope and Fear in Working America

http://www.changetowin.org/features/the-american-dream-survey.html

Work-related violence and threats and the risk of depression and stress disorders:

http://press.psprings.co.uk/jech/september/771_ch42986.pdf

Earnings-related severance pay:

http://ftp.iza.org/dp2232.pdf

Changing patterns in the world of work:

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/standards/relm/ilc/ilc95/pdf/rep-i-c.pdf

Characteristics of minimum wage workers, 2005:

http://www.bls.gov/cps/minwage2005.htm

The State of Working America 2006-2007:

http://www.stateofworkingamerica.org/

Interpersonal styles and labor market outcomes:

http://ftp.iza.org/dp2466.pdf

Labor force characteristics of second-generation Americans:

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2006/09/art2full.htm

Are they really ready to work? Employers' perspectives on the basic knowledge and applied skills of new entrants to the 21st century U.S. workforce

http://www.conference-board.org/pdf_free_BED-06-Workforce.pdf

Occupational pay relatives, 2005: relative occupational pay comparisons between metropolitan areas and the U.S. as a whole

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

Salary search database

http://www.indeed.com/salary

Worker displacement: 2003-2005

ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/news.release/disp.txt

No booze? You may lose: why drinkers earn more money than nondrinkers

http://www.reason.org/pb44.pdf

Institute for the Study of Labor

http://www.iza.org/

A leaner, more skilled U.S. manufacturing workforce

http://www.newyorkfed.org/research/current_issues/cil2-2/cil2-2.html

Effects of ESOP adoption and employee ownership: Thirty years of research and experience

http://repository.upenn.edu/od_working_papers/2/

Characteristics of minimum wage workers, 2006

http://www.bls.gov/cps/minwage2006.htm

Bureau of Labor Statistics

http://www.bls.gov/home.htm

Regional and state unemployment, 2006 annual averages

ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/news.release/srgune.txt

Employee tenure, 2006

http://www.ebri.org/publications/notes/index.cfm?fa=notesDisp&content_id=3801

Annual Talent Shortage Survey

http://www.manpower.com/investors/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=235798

Labor Productivity: Developments since 1995

http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/79xx/doc7910/03-26-Labor.pdf

U.S. Department of Labor’s OSHA unveils new pandemic flu guidance for healthcare workers

http://www.dol.gov/opa/media/press/osha/osha20070742.htm

Offshoring and Unemployment

http://ftp.iza.org/dp2805.pdf

Managers Say the Majority of Information Obtained for Their Work Is Useless, Accenture Survey Finds

http://newsroom.accenture.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=4484

Unauthorized Employment in the United States: Issues and Options

http://opencrs.cdt.org/document/RL33973

2006 Background Screening Hit Ratio Report

http://www.kroll.com/library/pdf/2006BackgroundScreeningHitRatioReport.pdf

Preliminary multifactor productivity trends, 2006

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/prod3.pdf

Economic mobility: is the American dream alive and well?

http://www.economicmobility.org/assets/pdfs/EMP%20American%20Dream%20Report.pdf

Drinking social norms and drinking behaviors: a multilevel analysis of 137 workgroups in 16 worksites

http://press.psprings.co.uk/oem/may/om31765.pdf

EEOC ISsues New Guidance on Work/Family Balance and Promotes Employer Best Practices

http://www.eeoc.gov/press/5-23-07.html

Can California Import Enough College Graduates to Meet Workforce Needs?

http://www.ppic.org/main/publication.asp?i=750

Salary Search: Search salaries from over 50 million jobs in the past year

http://www.indeed.com/salary


Understanding Productivity: A Primer

http://www.statcan.ca/english/research/15-206-XIE/15-206-XIE2006002.pdf

2006 UBS Study "Prices and Earnings": A global comparison of purchasing power in 71 cities around the world

http://www.ubs.com/1/e/media_overview/media_americas/mediareleases?newsId=103130

Are Those Who Bring Work Home Really Working Longer Hours? Implications for BLS Productivity Measures

http://www.bls.gov/ore/abstract/ec/ec070050.htm


Ignoring Productivity at our peril: Slowing Productivity Growth and Low Business Investment
Threaten Our Economy

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/08/pdf/productivity.pdf


Day Labor in the Golden State

http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/cep/EP_707AGEP.pdf

Addressing longstanding gaps in unemployment insurance coverage

http://www.cbpp.org/7-20-07ui.htm


Job-Worker Mismatch and Cognitive Decline

http://ftp.iza.org/dp2956.pdf


Job Assignments under Moral Hazard: The Peter Principle Revisited

http://ftp.iza.org/dp2973.pdf

Why AIDS is a workplace issue: HIV/AIDS country profiles

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/trav/aids/

The labor market effects of rising health insurance premiums

http://repositories.cdlib.org/ccpr/olwp/CCPR-038-06/

Employment and unemployment among youth, summer 2007

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/youth.nr0.htm

Study: Long-term productivity growth in Canada and the United States, 1961-2006

http://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/070828/d070828a.htm

Minimum wages in Europe

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2007/83/en/1/ef0783en.pdf

Monster U.S. Employment Index

http://www.monsterworldwide.com/Press_Room/MEI/Aug07/US/MEI_US_Aug07.pdf

Explaining the Spread of At-Will Employment as an Inter-Jurisdictional Race-to-the-Bottom of Employment Standards

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=989013

Low-Income Workers and Their Employers: Characteristics and Challenges

http://www.urban.org/publications/411532.html

Where the hottest job markets are, September 2007

http://www.bizjournals.com/edit_special/55.html?t=printable

America's Dynamic Workforce - August 2007

http://www.dol.gov/asp/media/reports/workforce2007/

Job Satisfaction and Family Happiness: The Part-Time Work Puzzle

http://ftp.iza.org/dp3020.pdf

Economy's Gains Fail to Reach Most Workers' Paychecks

http://www.epi.org/content.cfm/bp195

The Decline of Job Loss and Why it Matters (01/03/08)

http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.27356/pub_detail.asp

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/