Kresge Research Guides: Organizational Studies 310 Assignment: 5. Organizational Mission

What discrepancies, if any, do you see between the organization’s stated mission and its activities or impacts? How do you explain those discrepancies?

For answering this question about the organizational mission within a company, nonprofit organization or governmental body, you should use the article databases. These resources will provide articles written about these organizations in newspapers, journals, magazines, and trade journals.

ABI/INFORM Collection
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- General news resource that includes information on all news topics including business, nonprofits and governments.
- Find the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times among other news resources.
- Also includes numerous trade journals, magazines and scholarly journals on virtually all topics.
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Factiva
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- Great deal of business news content covering industries, companies, and general business
- Includes full text of Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Dow Jones Newswires, Reuters Newswires, and other major business news publications
- Includes full text of many online sources, such as the WSJ online, business blogs, company blogs
- International coverage, including most major world news publications
Nexis Uni
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- Full-text business and legal articles, legal cases, reports and related documents from numerous sources.
NewsBank
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- Includes international, domestic, and Michigan-based news-related databases, including hundreds of US and international newspaper titles, United Nations documents, full text of select Michigan newspapers, Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) translations for 1975-1996, and the online version of Reports, Documents, and Journals of the US Senate and House of Representatives, 1817-1980.

Additional Resources

ProQuest Ebook Central
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- Full-text of 45,000 titles in 16 general subject areas, including Business & Economics books from publishers such as AMACOM (American Management Association), McGraw-Hill, MIT Press, and Career Press.
- eBrary provides great coverage of many topics, including business.
D&B Hoovers
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- Information on nearly one million companies, including large and mid-sized companies in the United States and Canada, and hundreds of thousands of companies world-wide.
- Use the OneStop report to get a great summary of any company in the US and their annual reports.
Mergent Online
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- Current and historical (past 15 years) firm descriptions, statistics, financial information, annual reports, mergers, acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, long-term debt, bond ratings, capital stock and insider trading for US and foreign companies.
- Excellent source for corporate annual reports and SEC filings.
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Additionally, be sure to go to the library catalog:

U-M Library Catalog Search (University library catalog)