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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. 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.
See the FY 2004 guide for India. Chapter five of this guide, Leading Sectors for U.S. Exports and Investments, ranks Computers and Peripherals as number three.
For information on companies, products, and countries, go to Viewswires.
A search in Viewswires for Dell India produced just one article.
See also, for more general information on India, the monthly Country Reports, the annual Country Profiles, and annual Country Commerce for this country.
See the country information for India, the Country Profile, and the section on Location, Climate, Language, Religion, Flag, Capital.
A company search for DELL produced a list of over 900
reports for Dell, Inc., and over 700 reports for Dell Computer Corporation.
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 over 70 SEC 10-K filings (or parts of filings) for this company back to 1995. Dell's January 2004 filing mentions India four times, including:
"In fiscal 2004, approximately 36% of Dell's
net revenue was attributable to international sales."
"Dell also leases approximately 645,000 square feet of office space in
Bangalore and Hyderabad, India, where it is expanding its customer phone
support and back-office capabilities. Dell has recently established technical
and customer support and related operations in India, Panama, Slovakia,
Morocco, and China as well as design centers in China and Taiwan."
See this database's information for Dell and on their Subsidiaries (including one in India).
Dell is included in this database, under Computers/Peripherals.
Foster
Business
Library Reference Collection:
See Per Capita Retail Sales of Consumer Electronics, for PCs, on page 448, for data on India.
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 India on page 230 to 235.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Arranged by region, this work provides six-page profiles of each country's
history, social conventions, introductions, customary business practices,
business entertaining, dining out and public customs.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HF5389 .D64 1997.
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.
See Dell Computer in the Computers--Major industry.
Foster Business Library Books:
Circulation status is indicated on the right of each online catalog record, on the right. Available 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. You can have the Request/Place Hold feature to recall the book for your use.
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 just 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:
A keyword search for India and Religion produced over 890 records in the UW Libraries, with just one record in the Foster Business Library (pub lished in 1992). A keyword search for Dell and India produced no relevant records; similar searches for Dell and Globalization and Dell and Outsourcing also produced no relevant records. A similar search for Religion and Globalization, on the other hand, produced over fifty records in the UW Libraries but none in the Foster Business Library. A search for Hinduism and Globalization produced just four records (with none in the Foster Business Library). A search for Religion and Outsourcing produced no records.
A search for India OR Indian, limited to the Foster Business Library, produced a list of 200 records.
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 all databases, for Dell, produced eight listings, from CO(Dell Canada) to CO(Dell Inc). A search for CO(Dell Inc) produced over 400 articles; a search for CO(Dell Inc) and India, just two articles.
A search for CO(Dell Inc) and Globalization produced just one article; for CO(Dell Inc) and Outsourcing, just seven articles.
A broader search, for Globalization and Religion produced over 370 articles;
Globalization and Religion and India, fourteen articles;
Globalization and Culture and India, over 100 articles;
for Globalization and Hinduism, just nine articles; for
Outsourcing and Religion, 19 articles; for
Outsourcing and Religion and India, just two articles.
See also Thomas L. Friedman's series of articles from India, in the New York Times, earlier in 2004, including:
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.