LibGuides: Business & Management (RSM): Technology and Operations Management

Journals

Technology and Operations Management

You can use ProQuest and Business Source Premier to search for market data, articles, contract announcements and related information on supply chains, logistics and major suppliers.

To narrow down your results, limit your search by subject using keywords such as "supply chain management" or try filtering by industry (e.g.: automotive and "supply chain").

Try using the following terms: logistics; purchasing; supply chain management; supply chain.

Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window
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Provides bibliographic or full text content from 1300 academic journals, magazines and trade publications covering business, marketing, management, accounting, finance and economics.
Platform: EBSCO
ProQuest One Business This link opens in a new window
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.
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With Gale Power Search you can search multiple databases on the Gale platform.
The cross-searchable products are:
- Gale Academic OneFile (scholarly journals)
- Gale Literature: Scribner Writer Series
- Gale Literature: Twayne's Author Series
- Gale eBooks (reference materials)
- Gale General OneFile (periodicals and news media)
- Gale OneFile: News (newspapers)

News

Company announcements and supply-chain news are available via:

Factiva This link opens in a new window
Factiva contains business information and news from local and global newspapers like the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal, trade journals, magazines and newswires like Dow Jones, Reuters and the Associated Press.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
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Database with access to full-text newspaper articles and other news sources (Dutch and international).
Nexis Uni News contains major world publications (for example Financial Times), newspapers (including Dutch newspapers,such as De Volkskrant and NRC Handelsblad) and news wires like PR Newswire.
Also included is company information, law reviews and cases
Please note: Legal news, Law reviews and legal cases are mostly American.
Date range: The date range and update schedule differs per source. However, as the collection only contains born-digital material, the oldest items are from around 1990.
Related databases: Factiva; Delpher

Market research

Passport (Euromonitor) provides global data and analysis on supply chain information such as warehousing, packaging, retailing, and transport companies and industries.

MarketLine This link opens in a new window
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Datamonitor offers global coverage company, industry and country information through reports, news and statistics.
Why is this database relevant to Erasmus University?
• Marketline provides information on e.g. cities, business prospects, financial deals, investment advisories, product categories and companies, industries and countries in general.
• There also modules for city statistics, company reports, country statistics, industry statistics, business prospects and investment and advisories.
• In addition there are case studies, city profiles and insights and comments from analysts
• The city statistics module provides data and forecasts of key socio and macroeconomic indicators for more than 3000 cities, spread across Asia-Pacific, Europe, Middle East & Africa, North America, and South & Central America.
• The financial deals module covers global mergers and acquisitions (M&A), private equity deals, venture finance deals, private placements, IPOs and partnerships.
• Further topical data analytics are available for e.g. global food, drinks, personal care and household products, pet care, news and magazines and tobacco markets.
Passport by Euromonitor (formerly GMID) This link opens in a new window
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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.

Company Filings and annual reports

Supplier and customer information for pubic companies might be available via their filings and annual reports. For example, the SEC requires companies to report customers that represent more than 10% of their revenues.

Emerald Insight This link opens in a new window
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Online library with access to over 200 titles in the fields of management, information science and engineering.
IEEE Computer Society Digital Library This link opens in a new window
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Provides online access to the magazines and transactions and more than 3,300 conference publications of the IEEE Computer Society.
IngentaConnect This link opens in a new window
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Platform giving access to journals from different publishers.
The whole database can be searched, but access to the full-text article is limited to the subscribed content. The full-text of most journals is available via other databases.
MarketLine This link opens in a new window
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Datamonitor offers global coverage company, industry and country information through reports, news and statistics.
Why is this database relevant to Erasmus University?
• Marketline provides information on e.g. cities, business prospects, financial deals, investment advisories, product categories and companies, industries and countries in general.
• There also modules for city statistics, company reports, country statistics, industry statistics, business prospects and investment and advisories.
• In addition there are case studies, city profiles and insights and comments from analysts
• The city statistics module provides data and forecasts of key socio and macroeconomic indicators for more than 3000 cities, spread across Asia-Pacific, Europe, Middle East & Africa, North America, and South & Central America.
• The financial deals module covers global mergers and acquisitions (M&A), private equity deals, venture finance deals, private placements, IPOs and partnerships.
• Further topical data analytics are available for e.g. global food, drinks, personal care and household products, pet care, news and magazines and tobacco markets.
Morgan & Claypool Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning eBooks This link opens in a new window
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The Morgan & Claypool collection comprises a collection of e-books to advance learning for AI and machine learning. Example topics are Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, NLP and object recognition.
Passport by Euromonitor (formerly GMID) This link opens in a new window
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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.
Safari: O’Reilly’s Learning Platform for Higher Education This link opens in a new window
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This platform provides access to thousands of e-books, video courses, learning tracks and conference videos on e.g. data science, computer programming, as well as e-books covering all scientific disciplines and non technical subjects.
Note: Users need to sign up for an account at O'Reilly to get full access to the Safari learning platform. Without an account only temporarily access is granted.

Clarksons Shipping Intelligence Network (SIN) This link opens in a new window
Clarksons Shipping Intelligence Network (SIN) Provides online access to over 100,000 pages of data about the shipping industry. Clarksons provides information on e.g. shipping markets, fleet characteristics, ownership types, orderbooks, timeseries, capital markets and eco-indicators.
Lloyd's List This link opens in a new window
Lloyd's List provides extensive information on the shipping industry. Through Lloyd's users have access to reports, tools and market data, the Containers Data Hub, bulk and port data and environmental indicators. Note that EUR also provides access to Lloyd’s Law reports and Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly.
First-time users have to set up an account at Lloyds to get full access. To do so, please register on campus at Lloyds with your EUR email address (e.g. 123456ab@student.eur.nl). From outside the campus you can only register for an account at Lloyds through EZ-Proxy. Please use your EUR email address when registering. For more information on how to use EZ-proxy, see https://www.eur.nl/en/library/using-library/campus-access.

ThomasNet - freely available resource.
Comprehensive directory of U.S. and Canadian manufacturers, distributors and service providers. ThomasNet.com has now expanded to provide not only product and company information, but also online catalogs, computer-aided design (CAD) drawings, news, press releases and blogs.
The European Supply Chain Forum (ESCF) - membership organisation, but provides free access to news.
EUROSTAT - Transport - cover statistical data on transport of goods, as well as aggregated statistics on businesses, employment, infrastructure and equipment.