Company strategy often plays out over long periods of time. You can often gather evidence by reading longer articles in newspapers, trade, and industry magazines. Trade and industry magazines can be found in Business Source Complete and ABI/INFORM Collection databases.
Here are my top resources for quickly finding company strategy articles.
Documents in ABI/INFORM Collection (the most comprehensive version of ABI/INFORM) number over 40 million. Over 90% of the articles can be found right in the database. For the remaining 10%, summaries and links to other resources are provided. Publications are precisely indexed and various search aids and tools are provided in the ProQuest platform to help users find information. Tools for citation generation, emailing and printing articles of interest are also provided on the platform.
Subjects include:
Business
Economic conditions
Corporate strategies
Management theory
Management techniques
Business trends
Competitive landscape and product information
Accounting
Finance
Business Source Complete is the world's definitive scholarly business database, providing the leading collection of bibliographic and full text content. As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 are included. In addition to the searchable cited references provided for more than 1,200 journals, Business Source Complete contains detailed author profiles for the 20,000 most-cited authors in the database. Journal ranking studies reveal that Business Source Complete is the overwhelmingly superior database for full text journals in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Additional full text, non-journal content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more.
The New York Times is considered the "official" U.S. newspaper because it publishes the complete text of important documents, speeches, and presidential press conferences. The paper's reporters have won scores of Pulitzer Prizes throughout the publication's 150-year history.
The Wall Street Journal is the financial newspaper of record. It is an indispensable source for business professionals, providing business and financial news coverage, personal and company profiles, feature reporting, special reports, and regular columns.
Another early US business magazine covering companies, industries, individuals and events of US business. Unique resources available in Forbes include: Forbes lists - 500 Corporations (1955), Forbes 400 Richest People in US (1982) and large list of lists for other areas.
Note: HBR has special conditions attached to it. You will not be able to print a PDF of the article, only the full text. HBR also limits access to certain articles of it’s choose for various reasons. If you need a copy and can’t find it, please contact me at twyckoff@fsu.edu and I’ll be happy to get a copy for you. The print version of HBR is available in the Basement of Strozier Periodicals 650.5 H339.
Database Example
Databases can also yield company strategy articles; below is a search strategy for Business Source Complete to find strategy articles. It will work for other databases similarly. You can add functions (finance, management, products and services, sales and marketing, etc.) to find more focused articles.
Business Source Complete is the world's definitive scholarly business database, providing the leading collection of bibliographic and full text content. As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 are included. In addition to the searchable cited references provided for more than 1,200 journals, Business Source Complete contains detailed author profiles for the 20,000 most-cited authors in the database. Journal ranking studies reveal that Business Source Complete is the overwhelmingly superior database for full text journals in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Additional full text, non-journal content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more.
