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Case Study Research

Tips on how to find business case studies and how to do case study research.

Guide Contents

Business Source Ultimate
Select "Case Study" under Document Type and then type your company name or industry in the search box.

Also includes financial data, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, and SWOT analyses. Coverage: 1866-present.
MarketLine Advantage
Click on the Analysis tab and use the pull-down menu to select Case Studies.

Covers industry and company profiles, case study reports, financial deals articles, and country reports.

Mergent Archives
Detailed company information, some going back decades. Presented on a year by year basis, though. If you want to look at what happened to a company in 1989, look at the record for 1990.

The database is in two sections: Corporate and Municipal. WebReports contain more than 180,000 documents covering over 100 countries and industries using an easy-to-navigate and reliable system. Updated annually. Coverage: 1909 - 2019.
Gale Business: Insights
For company histories, do a Company Search, then pick your company. On the company record screen, click on the Histories button at the side of the page. The Financials link has historical information as well.

Made available by the NOVELNY program, which makes resources available to everyone in NYS. For NYS residents outside of NYS, please see the website for more detail. For links to all NOVELNY databases, please see the NOVELNY webpage.