WISER: Social Sciences

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WISER Social Sciences Business Financial
Information Resources An overview of the some
of the most significant business and management
databases available in Oxford. Includes
demonstrations of Business Source Complete, ORBIS
and Euromonitor's Global Market Information
Database. Fiona Richardson Katherine Melling
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Overview

• Main business finance resource types
• Demonstration of
• Business Source Complete
• FAME
• Euromonitor GMID
• Financial research databases
• WRDS
• Datastream

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A bit about you

• Why are you here?
• What do you know already?

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Defining the subject?

• The scope of business management research is
  not as neatly bounded as, for example, inorganic
  chemistry
• Maylor, H. Blackmon, K. (2005) Researching
  Business Management. Basingstoke Palgrave.

R E C O M M E N D E D !
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C O M P U T I N G
L A W
M A T H S S T A T S
C O M P U T I N G
Business management research
L A W
A N T H R O P O L O G Y
P S Y C H O L O G Y
S O C I O L O G Y
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Types of resource
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Remember us?
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Key databases
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Live demo
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Financial research databases (1)

• Research interface for analysing financial data
• Major datasets
• Compustat North America
• CRSP
• FAME and ORBIS data
• plus many other smaller datasets
• Individual accounts available for doctoral
  students, research assistants and academics.
  Academics can also set up class accounts.
• Open access in the Sainsbury Library only.

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Financial research databases (2)
Long time series of company financial, stock
market and economic data. Restricted to specific
PCs currently available in the Said Business
School, Economics Department and Oxford-Man
Institute for Quantitative Finance. Open access
currently only in Sainsbury Library.
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Need help or advice?
Contact the specialists! Fiona
Richardson fiona.richardson_at_sbs.ox.ac.uk tel.
(2)88882 Katherine Melling katherine.melling_at_sbs.
ox.ac.uk tel. (2)88883