Global Employment Regulation (Special Topics in Employment Law)

This excellent website is by Tom Juravich, UMass Amherst, who has been teaching Internet skills for strategic corporate research for years. The site is more than pointers to websites, It introduces "a framework and a visual representation of the 24 areas where you should direct your research". There are sections for U.S. and Canadian publicly-traded, privately-held, non-profit and public sector company research.

CorpWatch: Non-profit investigative research and journalism to advocate for multinational corporate accountability and transparency.

Research Guide for researchers and activists by Phil Mattera. Covers publicly held and private U.S. companies.

This excellent guide by Rutgers business librarians Ka-Neng Au and Roberta Tipton offers links to many web sites, including state corporate databases. Some of the resources are for Rutgers affiliates only, but a surprising number are free or only require registration.

Available through the News section of the Westlaw database, Hoover Company Records provide basic company facts, names of executives and directors, and a Company Overview. It includes publicly traded companies, subsidiaries, nonprofits, and some large private companies. Rutgers Restricted Access

IbisWorld provides reports for the 723 industries in the U.S. Research reports contain trends, statistics and analysis on market size, emerging industry trends, recent production performance and 5 year forecasts The Rutgers subscription does not include global industry reports but does include reports on more than 8,000 public companies from around the world. Rutgers Restricted Access

Start with MarketLine for company profiles, SWOT analyses, financial deals, and market share. Rutgers Restricted Access

Find information on a company's competitors, suppliers, partners, and corporate customers, using a detailed hierarchical classification system for actual products and services. Rutgers Restricted Access

Mergent Online is a database of corporate information covering over 22,000 US and foreign public companies. Information available for each company includes corporate history, lists of subsidiaries, SEC filings, etc. Rutgers Restricted Access