Elizabeth Stephan Librarian for the College of Business and Economics
CBE Reference hours:
CBE Office PH45/45B
Oct 13 - Dec 2
Tuesday 1:30-3:30
Wednesday 9:30-11:30
Library Office:
Haggard Hall 226
Phone: 360-650-2061
Email: Elizabeth Stephan
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Find Books & More Using the Library Catalog Books and other resources can be found in the Western Library catalog or the Summit catalog by searching by subject. Please use the following Library of Congress subject headings:
Introduction to online competitive intelligence research : search strategies, research case study, research problems, and data source evaluations and reviews / Vibert, Conor • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HD38.7 .I585 2004
• Check Catalog This provides tools and step by step methodology to the competitive intelligence research process. It includes planning, direction, data collection, analysis, and dissemination.
Analyzing your competition : simple, low-cost techniques for intelligence gathering / Strenges, Michael. • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HF5351 .S83 1992
• Check Catalog This tells you how to gather information about your competitor.
Institute for strategy and competitiveness / Harvard Business School This contains a large number of links of interest to those studying strategy. It includes competitive strategy, Industry Structure, Structural Change, Company and Industry Financial Performance,
Location, Internationalization, cluster development, and Global Strategy.
Competitors
Company profiles for students • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HG4057 .A15644
• Check Catalog This gives a 2-3 page overview of major companies in the world. It includes a list of major competitors for each company. It is a 3 volume set.
Hoover's.com / Hoovers Background information and financial data on public and private companies. This site includes links to Web sites, a register of thousands of companies on the Web and a directory of more than 50,000 public and private world-wide companies. It also includes quotes, stock charts, financials, key officers and competitors, press releases and Securities and Exchange Commission filings. Hoover's Online is searchable by company name, ticker symbol, keyword or last name. Not all the information is free of charge.
International directory of company histories / Antelman, Gretchen ... [et al.]. • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HD2721.I63
• Check Catalog This multi-volume set provides a thorough overview of a company’s direction over time, there is often a main entry, which is updated in subsequent volumes. Most companies chosen for inclusion in this directory have a minimum of $100 million in annual sales, and are considering leaders in their industry or geographical location. About 10% of the companies represented are private or non-profit. For this reason, you usually do not find small companies in this directory. Entries typically run three or four pages, but may be longer, and may provide a brief bibliography of books or articles about the company. The entries often include significant information on the brands the company produces.
IPO portal / Edgar online Information in this site includes competitors of IPOs. You can search all IPOs that have been filed.
Antitrust case browser / Becker, Anthony This contains both an alphabetical and chronological listing and summary of antitrust cases found on the web. Many are historica, dating from before 1910 through the 1990's. There are a few from cases from 2004.
Federal Trade Commission / United States. Federal Trade Commission The "Antitrust/Competition" page of the FTC web site offers numerous opinions, documents, decisions, orders and testimony on antitrust. There is a link to searching the commission actions. Search this to see if the FTC has ever taken action against a company.
Cluster and cluster development / Harvard Business School Clusters are geographic concentrations of "interrelated suppliers or companies." The Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at the Harvard Business School lists describes cluster related projects and provides links to key readings and resources.
Competitiveness of Countries
Africa competitiveness report / World Economic Forum • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HF1611 .A37
• Check Catalog The Africa Competitiveness Report highlights the prospects for growth, obstacles to improving competitiveness and the need to accelerate the pace of economic change. It presents an
analysis of over 100 indicators and reveals regional trends and performance in 25 African economies. For example, it presents data on:
corruption
the impact on business of HIV/AIDS
infrastructure
access to financing.
Competitive alternatives / KPMG This analyzes business costs in the G-7 countries. It looks at 27 areas of business costs including labor, transportation, and utility costs.
Doing business database / World Bank/ International Finance Corporation The Doing Business Database provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement. The Doing Business indicators are comparable across 145 economies. They indicate the regulatory costs of business and can be used to analyze specific regulations that enhance or constrain investment, productivity and growth.
European competitiveness and transition report, 2001-2002 : ratings of accession progress, competitiveness, and economic restructuring of European and transition economies / World Economic Forum • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HF1414 .E89 2002
• Check Catalog This highlights the prospects for growth in Europe and reveals obstacles to competitiveness. It provides strengths and weaknesses of the leading economies in Europe.
Global competitiveness report / World Economic Forum • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HF1414 .G559
• Check Catalog This identifies impediments to economic growth around the globe. It gives the competitiveness indexes, looks at selected issues of competitiveness such as setoral trade, and economic creativity, and provides country profiles and data comparing countries against certain benchmarks.
Latin American competitiveness report / World Economic Forum. • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HF1480.5 .L3853
• Check Catalog This highlights the prospects for growth in the Latin American region and reveals obstacles to competitiveness. It provides strengths and weaknesses of the leading economies in Latin America.
National Competitiveness Council / National Competitiveness Council Secretariat The National Competitiveness Council (NCC) is a social partnership body, which reports on key competitiveness issues facing the Irish economy together with recommendations on policy actions required to enhance Ireland's competitive position. Each year the NCC publishes the two-volume Annual Competitiveness Report. Volume One, Benchmarking Ireland’s Performance, is a collection of statistical indicators of Ireland’s competitiveness performance in relation to 16 other economies and the OECD and EU averages. Volume Two, Ireland’s Competitiveness Challenge, uses this information along with the latest research to outline the main challenges to Ireland’s competitiveness and the policy responses required to meet them.
Environmental Scan
How to Conduct an Environmental Scan [Page no longer available]
PEST Analysis
PEST analysis / Quick MBA Quick MBA defines PEST analysis and outlines the various components of this external environmental scan tool.
