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
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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