Finding Literature and Data
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Business Studies and Economics
07.02.2017
Matthias Pintsch
(Subject Librarian for Business)
Most Important Resources For Research
Literature
Data
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Most Important Resources For Research: Literature
Literature
Data
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Research Literature
• Current research literature can be found in articles / papers
• Published articles
– Articles from journals or collected editions (e.g. Handbook of Finance)
– Usually peer review process
– For some areas, journal rankings are very important (e.g. the VHB
JourQual ranking, SSCI)
 Where you can find published articles: literature databases
• Other („unpublished“) articles: working papers, discussion
papers
– Normally no peer review process
 Where you can find them: in working paper databases or on Google
Scholar
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Literature Databases: Journal Articles
• EBSCO databases
– Business Source Premier: Business Studies and Economics
– EconLit: Economics and Finance
• ProQuest ABI/INFORM Complete
• WISO
– German database  German and English literature
 On top of journal articles, you can also find company, market,
and industry info in these databases
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Literature Databases: Other Papers
• Most important sources for working papers
– Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) searchable via
EconPapers and IDEAS
– Social Sciences Research Network (SSRN)
• Both sources are searchable via Google Scholar
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Hands-On: Business Source Premier
Search examples
Our literature databases can be found and started via our online
catalog Primo
(Note: you have to be within the campus computer network in order
to have access to the databases)
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Hands-On: Business Source Premier
Search examples
Suppose you need literature on the topic „Managing virtual work teams“ –
how do you begin your search in BSP?
BSP has many features – the most useful ones are:
• Filters (publication year, peer reviewed papers, …)
• Search within specific journals (e.g. the MIS quarterly)
• All publications of an author within BSP
• Export options for bibliographic data
• Citation information on articles
• Simultaneous search in all EBSCO databases (like EconLit, for
example)
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Most Important Resources For Research: Data
Literature
Data
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Most Important Resources For Research: Data
Literature
Published Data
• Country data
• Stock prices
• Company data (depending
on disclosure rules)
Data
Private Data
• Company data which is not
covered by disclosure rules
• Personal data covered by data
protection rules
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Important (Primary) Data Sources
• Financial statements from corporations
– Germany: Bundesanzeiger
– USA: U.S. Security and Exchange Commission (SEC)
• Stock and Security prices from stock exchanges
– Börse Frankfurt (Frankfurt stock exchange)
– New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)
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Important (Secondary) Data Sources
• (Company) Finance data*
– Stock prices and other financial instruments: Datastream (worldwide)
– Financial statements: Amadeus (EUR), Worldscope (worldwide)
– German finance markets and German companies (historical data, 197699): „Aktienfuehrer Data Archive“
• Economic Macro Data (unemployment, GDP, price indices, trade
data, public debt, etc.)
– Germany: GENESIS (stat. Bundesamt)
– Europe: Eurostat (European Commission)
– Worldwide: OECD iLibrary, International Financial Statistics (IMF), World
Bank
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Important (Secondary) Data Sources
• Marketing data: www.statista.com
• News Databases & Company Info:
• German-speaking press: WISO
• International press:
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(long history)
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(long history)
 Mind download restrictions!
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Finding Data - Examples
• You need key financial data and financial statements data
– for the Robert Bosch GmbH and
– for the past five years.
• You need all kinds of information on mobile payment for
designing a business plan.
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Citing Data
In your bibliography, try to give the following information on
the dataset you used:
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author / organization / creator
title of dataset
year of publication
place of publication & publisher
online availability / where to access
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Further assistance for Business Studies and Economics
• Web page of the UB: http://www.bib.uni-mannheim.de
 click „Finding Resources“, then „subject-specific research“
– Business Studies: Overview of literature
and finance databases
– Economics: Overview of literature and
Economic macro databases
(UB subject info)
• Subject librarians at the UB Mannheim
– Business Studies:
M. Pintsch, [email protected], 0621 181-2754
– Economics:
K. Selzer, [email protected], 0621 181-3018
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Thank you!
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