FAQs: Frequently Asked (Business Research) Questions
FAQs for Business Research
Over the years, I have noticed that certain business research questions tend to be asked again, and again. On this page, I have attempted to list these questions around their key concepts, e.g., Financial Ratios, Industry Overviews, Company Overviews, Sarbanes-Oxley, and etc. Over 70 such concepts are listed below, and in the web pages connected to these concepts, I have provided annotated links to sources that have this information. So, the terms or concepts you see below are to be viewed in the form of questions like:Please look over these FAQs to see if what you need is to be found here. Depending on how you proceed with your work, you may want to access information that is beyond the scope of these links. If that is the case, feel free to contact me for additional help.
Academic One File
Academic Search Premier
Accounting and Business Law
Advertising
APA Citation Examples
American FactFinder
Analyst Research
BizMiner
Brands and Branding
Business Analyst Online
Business Databases
Business Ethics
Business Insights: Essentials
Business Source Premier
Business Statistics
Can I access the databases after graduation?
Center for Economic Development
Citing Business Resources
Company Annual Reports
Company Histories
Company Information
Company Overview Reports
Comparing Companies
Competition
Consumer Demographics
Country Overview Reports
Course Guides
Library research guides designed for specific UMD LSBE courses.
Customers
EconLit
Economics
EDGAR Database
Electronic Commerce
Ethnographics
Emerald Online
Empirical Scholarly Articles
e-Statement Studies
Exchange Rates & Currency Converters
Experian Simmons Oneview Database
Exports
FEDSTATS
Financial Ratios
Find Information in Books
Find Information in Periodical Articles
Find Information in Reference Books
Find a Video
FMIS: Finance and Mangement Information Sciences
Franchise Information
Geography, Area or Radius
Google Scholar
Global Marketing Information Database (GMID)
Health & Human Resources Total Connect
Health Care Management
Health Care Management Regulations
History of Economics
Hoover's Company In-Dept Records (from Lexis-Nexis Academic)
Human Resources in Foreign Countries
Human Resources Regulations
Imports
Industry Information
Industry Overviews (Reports)
Initial Public Offering (IPO)
Inter-Library Loan
International Business
International Financial Statistics (Online)
International Trade
Job Postings on ReferenceUSA
Job Search with UMD Library Databases
Job Searching and Careers
JSTOR
Laws and Regulations
"Leadership" (as a topic example)
Lexis Nexis
Library Hours, Locations & Services
Local
Management Theory
Management and Human Resources
Manufacturers
Marketing
MarketLine
Market Share & Company Rankings
Marketing Ideas
Marketing Plans & Small Business Start-Up Business Plans
MasterFile Premier
Mergent Online
Mergent/Moody's Manual Collection
Milgram Experiment
Mintel Reports
MorningStar
NationMaster
NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research
NetAdvantage
Neuromarketing
New Products
NewsStand
NewStrategist
Non-Profits
OECD iLibrary
Online Business Reference Sources
Periodicals, Locating
Pew Research Center
Porter's Five Forces
Presentation Skills
Private Companies
Psychographics
Reference USA
Regional Business News
Research Insight
Retail
RIA Checkpoint - Tax Research
Sales
Sarbanes-Oxley
SBRnet
Science Direct
Search Engines for the Web
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
SEC Reports
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Selling
SIC & NAICS codes
Small Business & Entrepreneurship
Social Networking
Social Proof
Sources of Supply
Sports Marketing
SRDS Media Solutions
Stock Reports
Stocks, Bonds, and Mutual Funds
Strategic Goals of a Company
SWOT Analysis
Tax Research
Trade Associations
Trade Publications
Trade Shows
Trust (in Business Transactions)
Ulrich's Periodicals Directory
Value Line
Wall Street Journal
Web 2.0 Marketing
Wikipedia
World Development Indicators (Online)
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