Research Hub: MIS 202: Microcomputers in Business: Company Information

Business Databases

Mergent Intellect
Features industry surveys, data on private and public U.S companies, international businesses, and consumers, industry news, facts and figures, executive contact information, and more.
Capital IQ
Provides public and private company and industry information including extensive financial data, stock reports, and more. Use hundreds of data points to generate lists of companies, markets, and executives. Includes an Excel add-in for data analysis.
You must register as a new user using your WSU email to access the data.
Business Source Premier - Business Searching Interface
The Business Searching Interface features Company and Industry Profiles and Country and Market Research Reports. You can also browse by publication types including SWOT analyses, trade publications and magazines.

The database also includes other sources of full text information such as country economic reports from the EIU, Global Insight, ICON Group and CountryWatch and detailed company profiles for the world's 10,000 largest companies. Business Source Premier provides full text (PDF) for more than 350 of the top scholarly journals including Academy of Management Journal is available back to 1958, Accounting Review to 1926, Administrative Science Quarterly to 1956, California Management Review to 1958, Industrial & Labor Relations Review to 1947, Journal of Accounting Research to 1963, Journal of Finance to 1946, Journal of Marketing to 1936, Journal of Marketing Research (JMR) to 1964, Management Science to 1954, Operations Research to 1956, etc.

Public vs. Private Companies

To determine if the company you are researching is private or public, try the following:

Search the company's website for an "investors relations" (or similar language) link. If it is a public company, they will provide stock exchange information on their site.
Search for the company name on EDGAR (free database provided by the Securities and Exchange Commision). click on Search for Company Filings If it is a public company, you will retrieve a company report.

Mergent Intellect
Mergent Intellect has information on both Public Companies and Private Companies. If the company is public, there should be a tab for "SEC Filings." If the company is private, it will not.

Newspapers with Business and Economic News

New York Times (Institutional Subscription)
The New York Times is a daily newspaper based in New York City. Covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews.
Historical articles can be accessed via nyt.com, but you can only view five articles published between 1923-1980 per day. If you need access to more than five historical articles, use the Krueger Library's New York Times Historical database.

Access Issues? See this FAQ: NYT Troubleshooting

Access Issues? See this FAQ: NYT Troubleshooting
Wall Street Journal (Institutional Subscription)
Unlimited access to WSJ.com and the WSJ App.
You will need to create a separate account. See details: Wall Street Journal Access

Users with an existing account have the option to connect it to the institutional subscription at the bottom of the "Create Account" page.
Vendor Accessibility Statement: https://www.dowjones.com/accessibility-statement/
Regional Business News
Full text for regional business publications, including titles from Crain Communications. Updated daily.
U.S. Newsstream (Proquest)
Content and archives (1980s-) from national and regional news sources including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Newsday, Chicago Tribune, and Minneapolis Star Tribune.