BUSMHR 7525: Global Innovation and Entrepreneurial Leadership

Factiva is a global news aggregator database with many, many sources in one place. You can keyword search and specify if you'd like to view results from publications in particular regions, or focused on particular industries, and much more.

This is a best bet database for business literature searching. The database is focused particularly on scholarly literature, but it also includes many international business periodicals, including The Economist.

CountryWatch provides information and news on countries around the world focusing on political, economic and business sectors. Country Reviews include political, economic, investment, social and environmental overviews and reports can be downloaded in PDF format. Other resources within the database include political briefings, country forecasts, elections information and more.

Fitch Connect focuses on country risk, industry research, and fundamental data and analytics, particularly as they may be of interest to individuals involved in international trade and/or investment. The database provides worldwide coverage of legislation and regulations, corporate finance, offshore finance, market analysis, economic analysis, risk management, property, consultancy, and worldwide business news. Full country risk reports include economic and political SWOT analyses, a monetary and fiscal policy outlook, an investment outlook, analysis of operational risks and an overall 10-year forecast.

Euromonitor International's Passport database provides business intelligence on industries, countries, and consumers in more than 200 countries. Market analysis country reports include information on market sizes, sales performance, company and brand shares and sales by category. The Economies section of the database includes reports on business dynamics; economy, finance and trade reports; and sustainability reports. Consumers reports are focused on households, income and expenditure, lifestyles or general population reports. Access to statistics, reports and commentary throughout.

The EMIS Intelligence database aggregates and produces content including full-text news articles, financial statements, industry analyses, equity quotes, macroeconomic statistics, and market-specific information for countries regarded as emerging markets. In addition, limited information is available for large companies and there are select industry analysis reports for industries in 197 countries.

The research in the ISA database covers more than 200 countries and regions Country reports include political, economic, demographic and environmental outlooks as well as current events with the intent to help users understand trends in international markets.

MarketLine profiles companies, industries, sectors and geographies. Industry profiles include market values, forecasts, and segmentations; major company profiles and information on the competitive landscape; and a five forces analysis. Company profiles include key statistics, all related research reports and a SWOT analysis. One can search all research by keyword or filter down from broad categories.