Research Guides: MGMT 345: Strategic Management (Ozer): Course Guide

Company Research Databases at Milne Library

Business Insights: Essentials
A comprehensive business resource which provides access to periodical and newspaper articles, information about domestic and international companies, investment reports, brands, industry and company rankings, corporate histories. Coverage includes public and private companies. A good source for company histories and chronologies.
Business Source Complete
Provides full-text for scholarly business and management journals as well as financial data, case studies, industry reports, market reports, and brief company profiles.
NetAdvantage (Standard & Poor's)
Includes Industry Surveys, Stock Reports, Mutual Fund Reports, Bond Reports, Corporation Records, The Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives, and The Outlook.
Nexis Uni (LexisNexis)
Offers more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790 across all content types.

Relevant Internet Site for Company Research

EDGAR (Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system) Company Filings, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
https://www.sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/companysearch.html

Provides annual and other financial reports. Submissions from companies required to file forms with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Citing Sources using MLA

MLA 7^th edition

http://www.oneonta.edu/library/RESOURCES/mla2010.pdf

Plagiarism

What it is and how to recognize and avoid it

https://wts.indiana.edu/writing-guides/plagiarism.html

michelle.hendley@oneonta.edu

Revised October 19, 2017

Selected Examples of MLA citations for Business Resources

The following examples are based on the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 7^th Edition (REF PE 1478.M57 2009) and the Maag Library’s “Citing Business Sources: MLA Business” (http://maag.guides.ysu.edu/businesscitations/mla). Please see the Maag Library site for more in-depth details.

Business Insights: Essentials

“Toyota Motor Corporation.” International Directory of Company Histories. Ed. Tina Grant.

Vol. 100. Detroit: St. James Press, 2009. Business Insights: Essentials. Web. 13 Oct.

2017.

“Toyota Motor Corp.” Notable Corporate Chronologies. Detroit: Gale, 2016. Business Insights:

Essentials. Web. 13 Oct. 2017.

“Toyota Motor Corp.” Global Markets Direct SWOT Reports. Aug. 2017. Business Insights:

Essentials. Web. 13 Oct. 2017.

NetAdvantage

“Apple Inc. Public Company Profile.” n.d. NetAdvantage. Web. 13 Oct. 2017.

“Apple Inc. Long Business Description.” n.d. NetAdvantage. Web. 13 Oct. 2017.

Corridore, Jim. Industry Surveys: Airlines. CFRA Equity Research, Jun. 2017.

NetAdvantage. Web. 13 Oct. 2017.

Lexis Nexis

“Target Corporation Company Dossier.” n.d. LexisNexis Company Dossiers. LexisNexis

Academic. Web. 13 Oct. 2017.

Nexis Uni

“Tesla Inc. GlobalData Business Description.”14 Sept. 2017. Nexis Uni. Web. 13 Oct. 2017.

Business Source Complete

Cendrowski, Scott, et al. "The 2016 Fortune Crystal Ball." Fortune 172.7 Dec. 2015: 11-18.

Business Source Complete. Web. 22 Feb. 2016.

Hoehle, Hartmut, and Viswanath Venkatesh. "Mobile Application Usability: Conceptualization

And Instrument Development." MIS Quarterly 39.2 (2015): 435-A12. Business Source Complete. Web. 22 Feb. 2016.

"The Walt Disney Company." MarketLine Company Profiles. London: MarketLine, 18 Aug.

2017. Business Source Complete. Web. 13 Oct. 2017.

michelle.hendley@oneonta.edu

Revised October 19, 2017