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Foster Business Library
Databases:
The Foster Business Library offers an extensive collection of business databases on its homepage; see under Business Databases; see
also the four folders at the top of that list for lists of Foster databases by topic: Books,
Articles--Full
Text, Articles--Citations and Abstracts, and Company and Industry. For more
information on the
three dozen Foster business databases, click here.
For more information on which of the
three dozen Foster business databases to use, click here.
For more information on
accessing Foster databases from off campus, click here.
For information about responsible database usage, click here.
See the Hoovers Online company overview for Dell
as well as the long
list of competitors, in Hoovers Online, in the Personal Computer industry. See also the company's Competitive Landscape, under Competitors.
See also the industry factsheet for the Personal Computer and the list of companies in what Hoovers calls the Personal Computer industry.
A company search for DELL produced a list of over 200
reports for Dell, Inc., and over 1,100 reports for Dell Computer Corporation.
An industry search
for Computers—Office Equipment produced over 22,000
reports.
Go to Business and then to SEC Filings to obtain the 10-K annual filings
for Dell, Inc., using the ticker symbol DELL. This database includes 70 SEC 10-K filings (or parts of filings) for this company back to 1995. SEC filings typically (but not always) discuss competitors, threats, risk, suppliers, etc. In Dell's latest filing, they mention, for instance:
"Dell's highly efficient supply chain
management and manufacturing organization, efficient direct-to-customer
model, and concentration on standards-based technologies allow Dell to
maintain the lowest cost structure in the industry and to pass those
savings to customers. Additionally, Dell's focus on cost control during
fiscal 2003 resulted in the lowest operating expense (measured as a
percent of net revenue) in Dell's history and the lowest among its major
competitors. Dell's relentless focus on reducing its operating costs
allows it to consistently provide customers with a superior value."
A search in this database, in titles, for Desktop Personal Computers produced eight reports, including a 9-page report on Desktop Personal Computers in the US, dated September 2003.
A search for Dell retrieved over 400 reports.
See Computers/Peripherals and Dell (both one-page PDF documents).
To find company or investor information, go to About Dell, in the top right corner of the company's homepage, for Company History, Company Financials and Market Share, and more. See Investors for
their Annual Reports back to 1995.
See the links to information for Dell, Inc.
See the company profile for Dell as well
as the
company's position among its competitors
in terms of
market capitalization in the Personal Computers industry.
See the company profile for Dell as well as its
Key
Statistics as well as the Computer Hardware Industry Profile.
See the Occupational Outlook Handbook general
information on the Electronic Equipment Manufacturing
industry, which includes computer hardware.
See Dell Manages Profitability, Not Inventory, dated June 2003.
See Per Capita Retail Sales of Consumer Electronics, for PCs, on page 448.
See index page 954 for Computer and for Computers and Electronic Product Manufacturing.
See Per Capita Retail Sales of Consumer Electronics, for PCs, on page 322.
See Personal Computers in the Information Age section on pages 316 to 319.
See Michael Dell in volume one, on pages 236 to 237.
See the industry survey, dated June 2003, for Computers--Hardware in volume one; Dell Computer Corporation is one
of the companies featured in the Comparative Company Analysis at the end of the survey.
See the industry survey for Microcomputer Platforms on pages 318 to 350.
See the profile of Dell founder Michael Dell on pages 1072 to 1073.
See Computer Hardware and Services, on pages 141 to 153, for the history, evolution and current condition of this industry.
See the history of Dell Computer in volume 9, on pages 165 to 166, with an update in volume 31, pages 163 to 166.
See Dell Computer Corporation on page 257, with references to the company and industry on pages 10 to 12, 26 to 29, and page 30.
See tables 915, 916 and 919, 922 and 925 on pages 224 and 225 for Dell Computer; see also table 939 on page 228, and tables 1873 and 1877 on pages 435 and 436.
See Dell Computer in tables 785, 786, and 788 and 790 on pages 214 to 216; tables 793 to 795 and 797, 798 and 800 on pages 217 to 218; and table 808 on page 220. See also tables 1520 and 1521 on pages 416 to 417.
Unlike library databases, these Web resources are available wherever
you have web
access; they do not require that you access them via the UW Connectivity Kit or the UW
Libraries Proxy Server for authentication. When using web resources, be sure to
evaluate the credibility of these resources. For a subject index to web resources, see Business Resources on the Web on the
Foster Business Library homepage.
Foster
Business
Library Reference Collection:
The Foster Reference Collection is located behind the Reference Desk in Foster.
Demographic trends and forecasts, economic indicators, labor force, trade,
energy, environment, consumer expenditures and market size, and retailing
information for the Americas, Asia, Africa and Oceania; companion volume
to European marketing data and statistics.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HA42 .I56. 2003.
Also available online.
Information about many industries as well as demographic information;
check index for references to tables. The sources for each table are
often a valuable source of additional information.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HA202 .U56 2002.
Also available online.
Demographic trends and forecasts, economic indicators, labor force, trade,
energy, environment, consumer expenditures and market size, and retailing
information for European countries.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HA1107 .E87 2002.
Also available online.
This World Bank volume contains a large number of tables listing each country and key
data about its people, environment, economy, markets, employment, poverty, etc.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HC59.15 .W656 2002.
Also available, in part, online at http://www.worldbank.org/data/wdi/home.html.
This two-volume encyclopedia covers economic history from Paleolithic times to 1999, with over 1,000 articles on the major terms, overviews, issues, biographies, events
and companies of America's economic history. There is a single extensive index in the back of
the second volume. The arrangement of this encyclopedia is alphabetically by topic, not chronological.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HC102 .G35 1999.
This three-volume set provides 30-page profiles on 52 industries
with a focus
on the current economic environment, trends, regulation and outlook for
each industry.
Major companies in each industry are profiled, with references to sources
of additional industry information.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HC106.6 .S74 (Quarterly)
This excellent reference work provides essays, mostly by professors of economics, about 14
significant industries: automobiles, beer, broilers, pharmaceuticals, steel, airline service, retail
commercial banking, casino gambling, electric power, health insurance, motion
pictures, nursing homes, microcomputer platforms, and telecommunications.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HC106.8 .I53 2002.
This 2,200-page single volume is "designed to offer a wide range of insights, information, and
practical guidance on every aspect of management" via 2.5 million words of text from 200
contributors, with 700 illustrations and 150 maps, in seven major sections including best
practice, a management library, business thinkers and management giants, a business
dictionary, a world business almanac, and a guide to business sources.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD38.15 .B878 2002.
Twelve-page descriptions of 125 global industries, with background and
development
information, current conditions, industry leaders and further reading.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD2324 .E53 2003.
Studying the history of leading companies in an industry is a good
way to learn more about the history of an industry. This
set of more than thirty volumes covers over 4,700 company histories worldwide, with each
history running just two to four pages; check the company index in the latest volume
to locate a specific company history or update as well as any other
references to that company in other company histories. There is also
an index by industry.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD2721 .I57
This almanac offers information about major industry trends, industry
statistics, industry information, major companies in the industry, with
indexes by state, country, region, etc. The major part of the almanac
provides one-page profiles of companies in the industry, with directory
information, growth plans and special features, contacts, brief
financials, brief salary and benefits data, and women officer-director and
advancement information.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD9696 .C63 .U5287 2001-2002.
Annual compilation of U.S., Canadian and Mexican market share data for companies, products and
services, arranged by SIC code, and with indexes by product, company and
topic.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HF5410 .M35 2004.
An annual compilation of market share information for worldwide companies
culled from thousands of periodical articles; use the company, product or brand indexes in the back of the volume to identify the company that you are researching.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HF5410 .W67 2001/2002.
Market analysis information including demographic, geographic and lifestyle
information to identify who customers are, where they live, how they spend their
time and money and how to reach them.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HF5415.33 .U6 .L54 2003.
See Use a Personal Computer demographics on pages 936 to 939, and Use an IBM Compatible, on pages 944 to 947.
See Dell Computer on page 374.
See Dell Computer on pages 461 to 465.
See Dell Computer on pages 1341 to 1342.
See Dell Computer in the Computers--Major industry, on pages 116 and 117, in the August 2003 to January 2004 issue.
Foster Business Library Books:
Circulation status is indicated in the box in the middle of each online catalog record, on the right. Check Shelf indicates that the book should be on the shelves under that call number and available for you to check out. Due and a date indicates that the book is already checked out to someone and is due back on the date indicated.
The Foster general stacks collection is located south of the main part of the Foster Business Library, through the two pass-throughs into the basement of Balmer. The arrangement is by call number, from A (at the east end, near the Copy Center) to Z (at the far west end).
A subject search for Dell produced two relevant subjects: Dell Computer and Michael Dell, with records for two videorecordings and three books:
There are also books in the Foster Business Library (or other UW Libraries') collection with chapters on Dell, including:
The subject term for the computer industry is Computer industry -- United States; a subject search for this term retrieved over 70 records in the Foster Business Library.
Foster Business Library Corporate Annual Reports:
The Foster Business Library maintains a collection of several thousand annual reports for hundreds of U.S. and foreign companies. These reports are filed in lateral filing cabinets near the Foster Reference desk under the sign Corporate Annual Reports. Annual reports for companies in an industry can be a valuable source of information about the industry itself. For a list of all the companies in the Corporate Annual Reports collection, click here. For an index to corporate annual reports in the collection by industry sector, click here. For an index to companies in the collection with headquarters outside the U.S., click here.
The collection includes annual reports for Dell Computer Corporation as well as other companies in the Computer Hardware, Software and Services sector.
Foster Business Library Articles:
Of these three main sources, all but Factiva are available from any computer on the campus network (as well as from home) via the UW Connectivity Kit or via the Libraries' proxy server. The easiest of these databases to use is ABI/Inform Global. For more information about accessing Foster Business Library databases from off campus, click here. For more information about business databases, click here.
This database offers full text articles for over 800 journals. To find articles on specific topics, search by word or phrase by keying your search phrase into the search box. ABI/Inform Global includes journals but not national or Washington state newspapers (though the Wall Street Journal is included). It also does not include valuable trade and industry and other periodicals. Your searches will span the widest possible array of publications by expanding your search to all databases in ABI/Inform. To expand your search to include all collections in this database, click on Select multiple databases, to the right of the search box. Click on all of the databases.
Your search terms will be highlighted in red in each article. For tips on searching this database, click here.
A topic search in multiple databases, for CO(Dell Inc), produced a list of more than 140 articles; for CO(Dell Computer Corp.), over 6,100 articles; for PER(Dell, Michael), over 330 articles.
A search for CO(Dell Computer Corp.) and "Supply Chain Management" produced five articles; for CO(Dell Computer Corp.) and Outsourcing, over 30 articles; for CO(Dell Computer Corp.) and "Electronic Commerce," over 130 articles; for CO(Dell Computer Corp.) and Marketing, over 470 articles; for CO(Dell Computer Corp.) and IPod, 19 articles; for CO(Dell Computer Corp.) and "Information Technology," over 50 articles; and for CO(Dell Computer Corp.) and "Competitive Advantage," over 35 articles. For a few more articles, and perhaps more recent ones, substitute CO(Dell, Inc. for CO(Dell Computer Corp.) in the search phrases above.
For research guides on a wide variety of industries, products, companies, issues and topics, see the Team Librarian Consultation archives.
Need help with writing or revising the written part of your assignment? The Business Writing Center, in Lewis Hall 304, provides consultations on business class writing assignments (as well as cover letters, and resumes) with an advanced business student trained in critiquing drafts and coaching writers. Need help citing sources? Try our guide to Citing Sources.
Finally, if you prepare a research paper, consider submitting it for a $1000 prize. The University Libraries will award prizes for outstanding examples of undergraduate library research in any discipline and media--print, video, electronic--completed for a University of Washington course in the 2003-2004 academic year. Up to three prizes will go to lower-division students (freshman/sophomore), and three to upper-division students (junior/senior). Details are available online at http://www.lib.washington.edu/researchaward/.
Prof. Giambattista's MKTG 301 Website Examples: Five Papers, MKTG 301, Winter Quarter 2003 (UW Net ID required for access)