Importance of Raw Materials
Material World: The Six Raw Materials that Shape Modern Civilization by Call Number: Sawyer New Books HF1051 .C65 2023ISBN: 0593534344Publication Date: 2023-11-07"Sand, iron, salt, oil, copper and lithium: The struggle for these fundamental materials has created empires, razed civilizations, and fed our ingenuity and our greed for thousands of years. It is a story that is far from finished."
ABI-Inform: Industry Forecasts, by Country
- ABI/INFORM Collection This link opens in a new windowThese reports from Oxford Economics, covering 60 countries, contain data and charts on the prospective growth for various industries.
ABI-Inform has a variety of industry, country, and company reports:
Online Library Reference Sources: Global Industries & Companies
- First Research (Hoovers) This link opens in a new window
First Research provides Industry Profiles, grouped into 11 sectors (for example: Recreation; Retail; Food & Agriculture; Services; and Technology & Communications). Many profiles cover businesses not readily found in other sources, such as Title Insurance Services, or Optometrists. There are also State & Province Profiles, which provide a snapshot of the business climate in individual states and provinces. - Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage This link opens in a new window
The 'Industries' section of Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage (located in the top blue banner) leads to the Industry Surveys (covering 52 industries). - Euromonitor International Passport (Passport GMID) This link opens in a new window
Euromonitor's Passport is a source of international market research, with extensive industry & consumer reports. In addition to reports on industry sub-sectors throughout the world, there are complete industrial profiles for China, Germany, France, United Kingdom, USA, and Japan, broken down by the International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities (ISIC) code. - ProcurementIQ (IBISWorld) This link opens in a new window
IBISWorld provides market intelligence reports for more than 1,000 products and services. The reports are geared help those in charge of procurement of various supplies and services, which in turn may be part of a larger supply chain. - Mergent Online This link opens in a new window
Mergent is primarily used to find financial information about publicly traded companies, however there is an option for industry reports, covering industries in North America, Asia, and Europe. Use the Country Insights tab for reports on country risk. Sawyer Library has a license for three simultaneous users, therefore please "log out" when you have completed your research.
Corporate Social Responsibility
Rethinking Business Responsibility in a Global Context: Challenges to Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainability and Ethics by Call Number: View full text via SpringerlinkISBN: 9783030342616Publication Date: 2020"This book examines topical issues in global corporate social responsibility (CSR) from both scholarly and practical perspectives. It offers a variety of viewpoints and cases from countries around the globe and combines them with current academic knowledge."
