WISER: Social Sciences Business & Financial Information Resources An overview of the some of the most significant business and management databases available in Oxford. Includes demonstrations of Business Source Complete, ORBIS and Euromonitor's Global Market Information Database. Fiona Richardson & Katherine Melling Overview • Main business & finance resource types • Demonstration of: – Business Source Complete – FAME – Euromonitor GMID • Financial research databases: – WRDS – Datastream A bit about you • Why are you here? • What do you know already? Defining the subject…? “The scope of business & management research is not as neatly bounded as, for example, inorganic chemistry” Maylor, H. & Blackmon, K. (2005) Researching Business & Management. Basingstoke: Palgrave. L A W Finance Accounting M A T H S & S T A T SEconomics Operations Information systems Business & management research Strategy LAW Management Human resources A N T H R O P O L O G Y science Organizational behaviour Marketing Types of resource Company & Financial Data Journals Business and Management Economics & Statistics Newspapers Market Research Remember us? Key databases UK and Ireland companies information. 29 profit and loss account and 63 balance sheet items, cash flow & ratios, credit score & rating, security & price information (listed companies only), names of bankers, auditors, details of holdings & subsidiaries, names of current & previous directors with shareholder indicator, heads of department, shareholders, etc. A comprehensive business and management e-journals database, covering both academic and trade journals. Also includes company profiles and market research. Global market research providing data, graphs and textual reports. Live demo Financial research databases (1) Research interface for analysing financial data Major datasets: •Compustat North America •CRSP •FAME and ORBIS data •plus many other smaller datasets Individual accounts available for doctoral students, research assistants and academics. Academics can also set up class accounts. Open access in the Sainsbury Library only. Financial research databases (2) Long time series of company financial, stock market and economic data. Restricted to specific PCs – currently available in the Said Business School, Economics Department and Oxford-Man Institute for Quantitative Finance. Open access currently only in Sainsbury Library. Need help or advice? Contact the specialists! Fiona Richardson fiona.richardson@sbs.ox.ac.uk tel. (2)88882 Katherine Melling katherine.melling@sbs.ox.ac.uk tel. (2)88883