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MGT 4350: Business Plan Development: All Entrepreneur Databases

This is a research guide for Dr Minifie's Management 4350 class.

Finding Article Fulltext

Databases automatically link you to the fulltext or offer the option to check to find a copy of your article, "Full Text Finder". Sometimes you'll see this option under Access Options:

Suggested Databases

ABI Inform Global - Good database for marketing news and trade publications detailing the details of running specific small businesses. 
 
InfoTrac Small Business Collection - Trade business sources detailing the nuts and bolts of running specific kinds of businesses. 
 
Local Market Analyst Database Database that contains demographic and lifestyle data for marketers. Research consumer markets, psychographic information, and demographics of counties and designated metropolitan areas. Also contains information on buying patterns. Useful for market research, researching the viability of a new business, estimating sales, and social research

Marketline Advantage -  Company, industry, financial and country profiles that include company description, history, products, competitors and key employees. Industry profiles include segmentation, competitive landscape, leading companies,forecasts, economic performance, potential development and business environmental analysis. Case Studies offer concise evaluations of the latest innovative company strategies.
 
Market Research - Market research reports. Industries covered - Service, Consumer Goods, Food & Beverage, Financials Services, Heavy Industry, Life Science, Public Sector, Pet Products & Services, House & Home, Manufacturing & Construction, Materials & Chemicals, Biotechnology, Diagnostics, Healthcare, Personal Care, Medical Devices, Pharmaceuticals, Technology & Media.
 
Mint - Comprehensive information on companies worldwide. Search by company, news articles, contacts/managers, industry profiles from Datamonitor and original documents that match specific criteria.
 
MRI+ - Create a free account, and then click on Mediamark reporter on the upper right side of the screen. Get consumer profiles for your product. 
 
Reference USA - Directory of all local businesses - search by business type or SIC/NAICS code. 
 
Simply Analytics - This database features economic demographics for local areas, as well as market share and psychographics.

| Citation Management

Have a lot of citations you want to enter in your works cited/references list? Try a citation manager.

Do you need the Web or Desktop version?

 

  • Organize your research Include citations while you write your paper
  • Build a bibliography in a variety of formats
  • Import references from library databases and Google Scholar.