Thunderbird Global Challenge Lab
ASU Business Databases
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The following databases are popular business-related resources for beginning your research.
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ABI/INFORM Collection This link opens in a new windowGreat source for business publications--academic journals, newspapers (contains FT and WSJ), magazines, trade publications, market research, and industry profiles.
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IBISWorld This link opens in a new window
Access industry reports for over 1,000 US industries, along with global reports, particularly for the UK, Australia, Canada, and China.
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Mintel Academic Reports This link opens in a new windowMarket research on US consumer markets. Market size, market share, segmentation, trends, demographic profiles, consumer behavior.
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Passport This link opens in a new windowConsumer market information covering 360 markets and 227 countries including socioeconomic profiles and reports for 850 cities of the world.
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Statista This link opens in a new window
A statistics portal that integrates data on markets, industries, media, business, finance, politics, population, opinion, lifestyles and a wide variety of other areas of interest. Provides ready-made charts, graphs, and tables. Includes AI assistant: ResearchAI
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Follow the link below for a complete list of ASU Library's databases in business.
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ASU Library Business DatabasesAll of the business-related databases available to Thunderbird and ASU students.
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Business Source Elite This link opens in a new windowFull text business journals including Harvard Business Review (HBR), Bloomberg.com, and more. Extremely important database.
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Leisure Tourism Collection This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1974+
Maximum Concurrent Users: 4
CABI’s Leisure Tourism Collection is a database of full text records, book chapters, news, bibliographic information and abstracts for all aspects of leisure and tourism. The collection covers tourism policy and planning, education and training, travel, sports, hospitality, the arts and entertainment, sustainability, recreational activities and cultural heritage.
Gartner
Arizona State University faculty, students and staff have access to Gartner. Among the research that can be found in Gartner are items on:
- Technology products, services, and trends
- Global IT industry perspectives
- IT management and organizations
- IT strategies and governance
- Business-IT issues
- Real-world case studies
Gartner is known for Hype Cycles that track the adoption of types of technologies, such as Emerging Technologies, Smart Government, and Human-Computer Interaction and their Magic Quadrants that provide a graphical competitive positioning of four types of technology providers in fast-growing markets: Leaders, Visionaries, Niche Players and Challengers.