Here’s a ranking of the most popular business-related journals, magazines and newspapers here at UB:

Two new articles out this week from School of Management faculty members: Stanley Zionts and Yong Li… congrats!

1 - “Multiple criteria decision making, multiattribute utility theory: Recent accomplishments and what lies ahead” by Wallenius, Jyrki; Dyer, James S.; Fishburn, Peter C.; Steuer, Ralph E.; Zionts, Stanley; Deb, Kalyanmoy. In MANAGEMENT SCIENCE 54 (7): 1336-1349 JUL 2008.

To access this article, click here (you must be on campus of logged in to the UB network): http://mansci.journal.informs.org/cgi/content/abstract/54/7/1336

Citation in Web of Science: http://digbig.com/4xfra

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As a GA working in the UB Office of Science, Technology Transfer and Economic Outreach, here are some resources from the UB Libraries that can assist you with your research:

• Companies… find information about companies and identify comparable companies and competitors
• News… learn about recent trends and developments
• Industries… get overviews of the various facets of an industry and get a sense of the size of the market
• Journal literature… explore business topics in an in-depth manner
• Data… Obtain statistics, rankings, market share,etc

1. Company Information…

Company profiles with quantitative and qualitative info. Find competitors and major players in an industry. Remember the 3 factors that determine the difficulty of company research: public -vs- private, US -vs- non US, parent -vs- subsidiary.

• Best bet… Hoovers

• See also… OneSource, ReferenceUSA

2. News Articles…

Technology industries are continually emerging and evolving — this makes them difficult to research. Keep current with recent trends with industries and companies by monitoring the news media.

• Best bet… Factiva (includes the Wall Street Journal, Barrons, and many other primary business publications)

• See also… LexisNexis

3. Industry Overviews and Reports…

Research from the best tech-related research firms is expensive and hard to come by: Gartner, Forrester, IDC, Frost & Sullivan, Nielsen / NetRatings, Jupiter, and lots of other specialized sources. Here’s what we have access to at UB.

• Best bet… IBIS World

• See also… Faulkners Advisory for IT Studies, S&P NetAdvantage

4. Academic Journal Literature…

• Best bet… Business SourceComplete (includes journal articles plus Datamonitor reports, market research, eBooks, country profiles, more)

• See also… other business journal databases are ABI Inform Global and Business & Company ASAP. For a science and technology focus, try ScienceDirect, ACM Digital Library or IEEE Xplore.

5. Rankings, Statistics and Other Data

• Best bet… TableBase

• See also… LexisNexis Statistical, Business & Company Resource Center,

6. Internet Resources…

Some resources from the free web:

• Research… IBM Research, USC Annenberg’s Center for the Digital Future, Pew Internet and American Life Project, RAND, ClickZ Stats, Morgan Stanley’s tech research.

• Magazines… Technology Review (MIT), HBS Working Knowledge’s Technology Industry, CIO, Business 2.0, Fast Company, Wired.

• Lists… 100 Fastest Growing Tech Companies (CNN Money), Deloitte Technology Fast 500, InfoTech 100 (BusinessWeek), Fastest Growing Techs (Forbes), Canadian Business Tech 100.