This section focuses on secondary sources available at the Erasmus University Library.
Below you will find databases which include statistics, consumer behaviour data, trends, country and industry analyses, and company reports.
Provides bibliographic or full text content from 1,300 academic journals, magazines and trade publications covering business, marketing, management, accounting, finance and economics.
Platform: EBSCOhost
This resource offers worldwide full-text content pertaining to communication, linguistics, rhetoric and discourse, speech-language pathology, media studies and related fields.
Platform: EBSCOhost
This database provides access to global consumer research topics including e.g. coverage of new products, business trends and marketing analytics.
GlobalData Explorer contents
GlobalData Explorer is a cross-sector platform providing information across 22 industries. Combining macroeconomic data and information on thousands of companies, GlobalData Explorer offers you broad yet detailed coverage of the global trends that are shaping industries and impacting companies.
Companies
Access to information on more than 1,000,000+ companies worldwide. You can screen the companies by multiple criteria as e.g. geography, time period, industry, financials, deals and company type.
You can find company profiles on all companies in the database. When it comes to public listed and major private companies, you can find very detailed information including basic data, history, management biographies, industry affiliations and products, main competitors, as well as financial data and analyses. Furthermore, you can find SWOT analyses, social media analytics and more.
Sectors: Industry data and profiles
The database covers 22 sectors/industries together with a lot of sub-sectors.
About the sectors, you can find:
Countries
Information about 200 countries, including basic data, financial and political news and analyses, as well as macroeconomic, demographic, and social data. Statistics cover data from 1990 and forward as well as 5-year projections.
Each page integrates resources from across the Intelligence Center, including:
Databases
Access to more specified databases
Passport Euromonitor provides access to reports, statistics and forecasts on industrial and consumer markets, searchable by country.
Why is this database relevant to Erasmus University?
- Passport Euromonitor provides insights in business dynamics, economy finance and trade, industry developments and natural resources.
- Users have access to refined analyses by geography, lifestyle themes and by date
- In addition, users can create country reports for a number of topics e.g. economic indicators, consumer trends, industries, lifestyle characteristics and retailing
- Examples of consumer products that are covered are: alcoholic drinks, apparel and footwear, beauty and personal care, consumer appliances, consumer electronics, consumer health, eye wear, fresh food, health and wellness, home and garden, home care, hot drinks, packaged food, personal accessories, pet care, soft drinks, tissue and hygiene, tobacco, toys and games.
ProQuest One Business combines multiple ProQuest business information databases - including e.g. the ABI/INFORM Collection and J.P. Morgan Research - to a total of more than 130 million documents.
To facilitate the research of e.g. company or market information ProQuest developed new corporation and business subject thesauri for ProQuest One Business as well as a new indexing for e.g. different types of reports and report content. Based on this new indexing ProQuest One Business offers special search and navigation features that are not available elsewhere on the ProQuest Platform. For more information on how to use these features, please see the Unique Features page.
DMEF Academic data (via WRDS)
Direct Marketing Educational Foundation (DMEF) provides US customer buying history data (from the 1990's) from nationally known catalog and non-profit database marketing businesses.
Wharton Research Data Service (WRDS) is the interface to datasets from Bankscope, CRSP, Compustat, ExecuComp en I/B/E/S, OptionMetrics, RiskMetrics and TAQ.
Users need to create an account, see https://www.eur.nl/en/library/erasmus-data-service-centre/wharton-research-data-services
Equity research reports provide investors with detailed financial analysis and recommendations on whether to buy, hold, or sell a particular stock. Usually published by an investment bank, they are used to make informed decisions.
Types of equity research reports:
Below is a list of databases for current and historical equity research reports:
The International Monetary Fund's (IMF) eLIBRARY includes access to the IMF data and statistical tools. Datasets included are Balance of Payment Statistics (BOPS), Direction of Trade Statistics (DOTS), Government Finance Statistics (GFS) and International Financial Statistics (IFS).
Access to digital publications of the World Bank divided in regions and topics.
Passport Euromonitor provides access to reports, statistics and forecasts on industrial and consumer markets, searchable by country.
Why is this database relevant to Erasmus University?
- Passport Euromonitor provides insights in business dynamics, economy finance and trade, industry developments and natural resources.
- Users have access to refined analyses by geography, lifestyle themes and by date
- In addition, users can create country reports for a number of topics e.g. economic indicators, consumer trends, industries, lifestyle characteristics and retailing
- Examples of consumer products that are covered are: alcoholic drinks, apparel and footwear, beauty and personal care, consumer appliances, consumer electronics, consumer health, eye wear, fresh food, health and wellness, home and garden, home care, hot drinks, packaged food, personal accessories, pet care, soft drinks, tissue and hygiene, tobacco, toys and games.
MarketLine Advantage provides a selection of influencers by a topic, based on the relevance of their tweets, extent of their networks, and follower engagement to highlight emerging trends.
GlobalData Explorer contents
GlobalData Explorer is a cross-sector platform providing information across 22 industries. Combining macroeconomic data and information on thousands of companies, GlobalData Explorer offers you broad yet detailed coverage of the global trends that are shaping industries and impacting companies.
Companies
Access to information on more than 1,000,000+ companies worldwide. You can screen the companies by multiple criteria as e.g. geography, time period, industry, financials, deals and company type.
You can find company profiles on all companies in the database. When it comes to public listed and major private companies, you can find very detailed information including basic data, history, management biographies, industry affiliations and products, main competitors, as well as financial data and analyses. Furthermore, you can find SWOT analyses, social media analytics and more.
Sectors: Industry data and profiles
The database covers 22 sectors/industries together with a lot of sub-sectors.
About the sectors, you can find:
Countries
Information about 200 countries, including basic data, financial and political news and analyses, as well as macroeconomic, demographic, and social data. Statistics cover data from 1990 and forward as well as 5-year projections.
Each page integrates resources from across the Intelligence Center, including:
Databases
Access to more specified databases
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CMO Moves
Career advice and the personal success stories behind these incredible marketing leaders.
Growth Marketing Toolbox
A weekly podcast series exploring the best growth marketing tools and technology.
Influencers
Influencers connects you to the marketing and communications leaders who are ahead of the game. Brought to you by The Conference Board Marketing and Communications Center, the podcast features regular interviews with Executives and Experts who know the issues you’re grappling with.
On the Media (NPR)
The On the Media podcast is your guide to examining how the media sausage is made. Hosts Brooke Gladstone and Bob Garfield examine threats to free speech and government transparency, cast a skeptical eye on media coverage of the week’s big stories and unravel hidden political narratives in everything we read, watch and hear.
Under The Influence (CBC)
A marketing podcast for the ad industry. Host Terry O'Reilly explores why we make the shopping decisions we make, and how we are influenced by words, colours and images. He tells stories of the remarkable creativity found at the higher realms of marketing and analyzes the ads we love to hate