Research Guides: Industry and Market Research: Case Studies

Case Studies

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With the help of context and detailed data, students can analyze case studies and determine what they would and would not do in a particular situation, why, and how. Listed below are case study resources.

Business Source Complete (1965-)
Full text articles from scholarly business journals and other sources, including financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more.
The following journals are dedicated to case studies, and more cases are findable through Advanced Search: Asian Case Research Journal, Business Case Journal and Journal of Case Research. Updated daily. Learn more about this database

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eBooks & Print books
Many business book chapters feature case studies. From the Library Search page, add the phrase: "case studies" to a broad keyword search, e.g.: "case studies" AND management.

GlobalData Explorer
GlobalData Explorer (formerly MarketLine) is a cross-sector platform providing actionable intelligence spanning 22 industries. Combining macroeconomic data and information on thousands of companies, Explorer offers you broad yet detailed coverage of the global trends that are shaping industries, impacting companies and driving innovation.

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MIT Sloan School of Management - LearningEdge
Launched in January 2009 under the name MIT Sloan Teaching Innovation Resources or MSTIR, LearningEdge is a collection of teaching case studies and management flight simulations developed by MIT Sloan faculty and students. All the materials featured on this site carry a creative commons license allowing them to be downloaded, copied, and distributed free of charge by anyone worldwide. Although the LearningEdge collection covers a wide array of industries, companies, and organizations, it focuses on areas in which MIT Sloan’s innovative research and teaching are on the cutting edge, including entrepreneurship, leadership and ethics, operations management, strategy, sustainability, and system dynamics.

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