Research Guides: MGMT 425: Strategy &amp; Policy: Industry Analysis

Industry Analysis

What is an industry analysis?

The purpose of an industry analysis is to assess the forces that impact doing business in a given marketplace. In this way, the company can determine whether the market is attractive enough to justify launching the particular product being developed.

Find Industry Overviews, Reports, and Analysis

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Reports that provide an aggregate of a variety of data, mainly statistics. Search for data by industry, political issue, consumerism, companies or countries. The data reports provide sourcing information.
IBISWorld This link opens in a new window
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IBISWorld Industry Market Research reports covers about 680 U.S. industries written at the 5-digit level of NAICS. Each report contains key statistics, market characteristics, segmentation, industry conditions, performance and outlook. These reports are written by industry specialists.
Each report is updated every 4 months.
MarketResearch.com This link opens in a new window
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Full-text service of market research reports on many topics. Includes more than 40,000 market intelligence publications from 350 publishers worldwide.
Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window
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Business Source Premier contains coverage for more than 2,300 journals covering a wide range of business topics. In addition, the databases includes access to company profiles, country reports, industry reports, market research reports and SWOT analyses.