Business Information Alert articles from November 2003

Business Information Alert archives from November 2003

Sources for compiling international company lists.
November 1, 2003... In this second article on compiling and using international company lists for business research, I intend to describe the sources that might be used to help construct the list. These are presented as a series of source groups. You will remember...

From the editor.(issue contents)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
November 1, 2003... Sylvia James continues her series on compiling and using company lists as part of business information research. In this second article, she describes the source groups where you can find lists to use as a starting point when you want to...

Going Hollywood.(News & Trends)
November 1, 2003... The hills are alive with the sound of music and other entertainment industry mergers. If mergers are an indication of trends in business information demand, consider that according to Thomson Financial, media/entertainment deals for 2003...

Good and free media/entertainment Web sites.(News & Trends)(Media Info Center)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... The Media Info Center from Northwestern University is a comprehensive resource with a cornucopia of up-to-date, exclusive features from premium research organizations, such as Veronis-Suhler-Stevenson and Nielsen. www.mediainfocenter.org

Directories.(News & Trends)
November 1, 2003... Well Connected: Who Owns What covers all media and provides company profiles, financials, and holdings. http://openairwaves.org/telecom/analysis/default.aspx Cable TV: 85 U.S. cable networks are briefly profiled by TV Week on...

Statistics.(News & Trends)
November 1, 2003... "U.S. Entertainment Industry Market Statistics for 2002" by the Motion Picture Association is a 60-page, high-quality report. It is film-focused, but also covers TV, cable, video, DVD, and the Internet. www.mpaa.org/useconomicreview/ Cable...

What's new?(News & Trends)(MSNBot)(SMEALSearch)(North American Product Classification System )(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Microsoft has targeted Google for extinction with a new search program called MSNBot. It scours the Web to build an index of HTML finks and documents and keeps it on your hard drive. Still in the pupa stage, MSNBot will be a cornerstone of the...

News to me.(News & Trends)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Speaking of NAICS, if NAICS is a six-digit code system, why are some NAICS codes only five digits long? Here's what Dr. NAICS says, "In developing NAICS, the U.S., Canada, and Mexico agreed that the five-digit codes would represent the level at...

Creating Business Value with Information Technology: Challenges and Solutions.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... Namchul Shin, ed. 2003. Idea Group Publishing. Hardcover. 322p. ISBN: 159140-038-4. $79.95. Today, every organization uses information technology (IT) in one way or another. Some use IT to make radical changes in their organizations, while...

The Enlarged European Union: a Statistical Handbook.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... 2003. Euromonitor International. Hardcover. 259p. ISBN: 1-84264-273-1. $470. In April 2003, 10 nations (Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Cyprus, and Malta) signed a treaty of accession to the...

Corporate Governance, Market Structure, and Innovation.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... Mario Calderini, Paola Garrone & Maurizio Sobrero, eds. 2003. Edward Elgar Publishing. Hardcover. 282p. ISBN: 1-84064-876-7. $95. This book is written for students of organizational dynamics. The authors felt that there was a causal...

The Internet and Mobile Telecommunications System of Innovation.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... Charles Edquist, ed. 2003. Edward Elgar Publishing. Hardcover. 260p. ISBN: 184376-232-3. $95. The U.S. is touted as the most progressive country with regard to the Internet, but European nations are catching up quickly. Moreover, it is...