Gale provides useful resources for industry research and education.
Learn about the business world of industries and companies. An industry is a way of classifying companies that are related based on their primary business activities. For example, the automotive industry includes car manufacturers and auto supply businesses. Companies with revenue streams from multiple sources are generally classified into an industry based on their largest source of revenue.
In the United States, industries are classified according to the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), which replaced the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system in 1997. The NAICS allows investors and economists to compare companies within the same industry to evaluate the health of a company compared to similar companies, and for analyzing the factors and limitations to corporate profit growth. The global version, the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS), is also commonly referenced.
Stocks within the same industry often rise and fall as a group because the same macroeconomic factors affect all members. These factors could include an increase in the price of raw materials, the imposition of tariffs, or a natural disaster. Companies within an industry may also gain or lose stock value individually, such as occurs when a company is embroiled in a scandal.
Gale provides scholarly resources to advance the study of industries and companies including databases, primary source archives, and eBooks.
Gale databases offer researchers and professionals access to credible, up-to-date articles from industry publications including full-text articles from industry magazines, domestic and international journals, trade journals, trade magazines, newspapers, and other industry journals.
Gale primary source archives provide researchers with firsthand content including editorials, news, surveys, statistics, and industry reports that can be used to examine and analyze the evolution of businesses and industries over time.
Gale offers a variety of eBooks ranging in topics business, telecommunications, and technology, to globalization. Users can add Gale eBooks to a customized collection and cross search to pinpoint relevant content. Workflow tools help users easily share, save, and download content.
Globalization and Trade Integration in Developing Countries, 1st Edition
Business Science Reference | 2018 | ISBN-13: 9781522540335
In a rapidly globalizing world, commercial relations and regional trade integrations between countries have improved. Analyzing trade relations, both inside and outside countries, allows for economic improvement. This eBook provides emerging research on the difficulties and challenges developing countries face in world trade and their performance. While highlighting topics such as economic growth, foreign trade policy, and trade competitiveness, this publication explores the trade integrations and commercial trends in advancing countries. This eBook is a vital resource for policy makers, government agencies, businesses, academics, researchers, and students seeking current research on the advantages and techniques of improved international markets and trade.
Advances in Data Communications and Networking for Digital Business Transformation, 1st Edition
Business Science Reference | 2018 | ISBN-13: 9781522553243
Sustaining a competitive edge in today’s business world requires innovative approaches to product, service, and management system’s design and performance. Advances in computing technologies have presented managers challenges and opportunities to enhance their business models. Advances in Data Communications and Networking for Digital Business Transformation is a critical scholarly resource that examines transformative technologies from the perspective of data communication and networking to research challenges faced by the industry and research and development laboratories. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics including routing protocols, network visualization, and corporate social responsibility, this eBook is geared towards executives, managers, academics, researchers, and students.
Small Business Sourcebook, 36th Edition
Gale | 2018 | ISBN-13: 9781410364784
Small Business Sourcebook covers over 340 specific small business profiles and 99 general small business topics; small business programs and assistance programs in the U.S., its territories, and Canadian provinces; and U.S. federal government agencies and offices specializing in small business issues, programs, and assistance.
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Future-Ready Leadership: Strategies for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, 1st Edition
Praeger | 2018 | ISBN-13: 9781440865237
Small Business Sourcebook covers over 340 specific small business profiles and 99 general small business topics; small business programs and assistance programs in the U.S., its territories, and Canadian provinces; and U.S. federal government agencies and offices specializing in small business issues, programs, and assistance.
The technological and economic forces of the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) are shifting organizations in radical new directions. Automation is taking place not only in factories but in retail environments, and it is not just powerful or precise: it is intelligent, and it learns. Leaders must learn to rely on new sources of data, analytics, and intelligence in their efforts to anticipate emerging trends, forecast unforeseen consequences, make sense of systems and complexities, communicate constantly, build strong networks based on trust, and ultimately win a following. This eBook is an invaluable resource for leaders and educators seeking to transform 4IR trends into a source of collaborative advantage. A blueprint for reshaping the future of work, the eBook explores cutting-edge research on technology's impact on the workplace. Chapters set up a specific future of work leadership challenges, with practical solutions, advice, and immediately actionable recommendations and tools.
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