Databases: Business Administration: Business Administration Databases

A great starting place for business research, this database covers business conditions, trends, management techniques, corporate strategies, and industry-specific topics worldwide. Includes articles from magazines, trade publications, and scholarly journals.

Business Source Ultimate provides both bibliographic and full text content covering all fields of business including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 are included. In addition, searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,300 journals.

Source for global news, and business, financial, and company information, providing access to thousands of newspapers and other publications. Stock quotes are also available. Simultaneous users: 6

Mergent Market Atlas (formerly Mergent Online) provides public company financials, ratios, business segments, descriptions, sustainability, officers and directors. Public company information includes a multitude of company, industry, index, ESG and economic data views. Mergent Market Atlas also includes non-company information such as Mergent industry reports, Dunn & Bradstreet Country Risk Profiles, and Country RiskLine reports.

This collection helps researchers locate precise results from sources ranging from current news to professional and academic journal articles covering the trends and history influencing important accounting, tax, banking, and financial issues of the day. It comprises the Accounting & Tax Database and the Banking Information Database, and includes many titles not found in ABI/INFORM.

Africa Development Indicators (ADI) is the most detailed collection of data on Africa, containing over 1,600 indicators, covering 53 African countries and spanning the period 1961 to 2008. Data include social, economic, financial, natural resources, infrastructure, governance, partnership, and environmental indicators. The ADI Data Availability Query shows where data is available for a given country, series, and year. It contains the value "1" for available data and ".." for missing data.

Online versions of Annual Review titles held in print by Himmelfarb and Gelman Libraries. Covers the biomedical, physical, and social sciences.

Ideagen Audit Analytics premium intelligence services, providing audit
information from public company disclosures, compliance, governance,
corporate actions, and federal litigation. Users must create a WRDS account. See Wharton Research Data Service (WRDS) for more information.

Covers essential banking industry publications, providing information about the financial services industry, banking, and industry trends.

Description: Conduct company, industry, economic and geopolitical market research with information from these sources: Hoover's Company Profiles - covering 40,000 global public and non-public companies including financials, competitors, officers, and more; OxResearch - succinct articles covering regional economic and political developments of significance; US and Worldwide Industry & Market Reports from Barnes Reports - covering global industries in depth; and
Snapshots - market research overviews on 40+ industries and 40 countries. Coverage: 1986-current

NOTE: Register for a CEIC account (no charge) to save searches and download data, or click guest access to search without downloading. Limit: 5 simultaneous users. Please log out when finished! Over 2.5 million item time series covering economies from the United States and China to Vietnam, Bulgaria, Chile, and Kenya. It offers a quick country reference on key indicators such as GDP, GNP, FDI, and CPI, as well as detailed, hard-to-find information on 18 macroeconomic and 14 industrial sectors.

DealScan database contains comprehensive historical information on loan pricing and contracts details, terms, and conditions. It contains basically loans. However In addition to loans data, it also provides contract information for high yield bonds, private placements and hybrid financial structures. DealScan data is compiled from SEC filings and public documents (10Ks, 10Qs, 8Ks and registration statements), loan syndicators as well as other internal sources. George Washington University faculty members, students, and staff may set up free individual accounts by going to Wharton Research Data Service (WRDS) at http://wrds.wharton.upenn.edu
George Washington University faculty members may also set up free accounts for their classes.

Presents, for most member countries of the International Monetary Fund, current figures on the value of merchandise exports and imports disaggregated according to their most important trading partners. Data is available from 1980 onwards for annuals/quarters and months. Area and world aggregates showing trade flows between major areas of the world are presented as well. Simultaneous users: 5

Premier source for economic literature in scholarly journals (including book reviews), books, dissertations, and working papers. Covers accounting, capital markets, econometrics, economic forecasting, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, urban economics and more. Published by the American Economic Association.

Provides political, economic, and business information on countries. Generally, the best way to use the database is to select country report under My Reports and Services and then select the country from the list that is then displayed.

Market research database focusing on digital marketing, media, and commerce. Subscription provided by the GW School of Business.

Full-text articles from management journals. Note that current content is not being added to this database.

Contains articles from this leading British business newspaper for the last eight years. NOTE: Enter your GW email address to create an account; after that you will be logged in through GW SSO.

Fortune Magazine Archive (1930 2000)

Gartner provides IT and organizational research and insights. Their extensive library provides access to a variety of resources, including real-world IT case studies, subject-matter experts, fact-based data and more. This link lets you activate Gartner in your MyApps Dashboard at MyGW.

Global Economic Monitor (GEM) provides daily and monthly commentary on global economic conditions along with direct access to high frequency data that is refreshed daily. It provides analysis of current economic trends, economic, financial and commodity data indicators, an extensive database including growth and commodity forecasts and access to the iSimulate modeling platform.

Proprietary information on more than 40,000 public and non-public companies.

Provides direct access to the IMF’s periodicals, books, working papers and studies, and data and statistical tools. Free for all users.

Standard source of international statistics on all aspects of international and domestic finance. Click on IMF Data on the top bar and then on International Financial Statistics which is listed under Popular Datasets. Users must create an account and log in to access data. Simultaneous users: 5

Back issues of core scholarly journals in subjects including African-American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, classics, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science, population studies, sociology, and statistics. Includes free Early-Journal Content, journals published before 1923 in the U.S. and before 1870 outside of the U.S.

Formerly LexisNexis Academic. Access to major newspapers from around the world, as well as: industry and market news; company financial information; general medical topics; accounting, auditing, and tax information; legal news, law reviews, and case law; and the U.S. and state codes. Please use Google Chrome or IE browsers with this database.

Provides access to the books, journals, and statistical databases of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, providing information on member countries economics, politics, and international affairs. Publications includes data from IEA, country studies, forecasting publications, reports, periodicals, and socio-economic databases. Statistical data can be downloaded as Excel files.

Covers journal articles, books, conference proceedings, and other literature on the full range of political, social, and public policy issues. Also included is information about websites, publications and organizations.

Passport (formerly Global Market Information Database) provides international market intelligence for countries, consumers and industries. Note: Users must register (no charge). All access to this database is restricted to GW students, faculty, and staff even on campus. Walk-in use by others is not permitted.

Covers pharmacological news, research, and regulatory information from important newsletters and specialized publications in the pharmaceutical, health care, biotechnology, and medical device industries.

Provides full-text coverage for over 50 regional business publications; indexing for an additional 16 titles.

The financial newspaper of record offering in-depth coverage of national and international finance as well as current events.

World Development Indicators (WDI) is the primary World Bank database for development data from officially-recognized international sources. Global Development Finance (GDF) provides external debt and financial flows statistics for countries that report public and publicly-guaranteed debt under the World Bank's Debtor Reporting System (DRS).