USC Databases
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eMarketereMarketer provides analysis, market data, and statistics on the Internet, e-commerce, online marketing, social media, and emerging digital technologies around the world.
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IBISWorldIndustry Market Research reports and Industry Risk Ratings. Focuses on United States, but has some data on global markets.
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Mint GlobalMarket reports on industries with financial details for companies and economic indicators for the countries in which the companies operate.
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PassportThe Passport/GMID (Global Market Information Database) by Euromonitor provides a wide range of consumer market and industry information in more than 80 countries around the world.
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ForresterTechnology and market research from Forrester Research, Inc. focusing on the business implications of technology change.
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StatistaProvides data on media, business, finance, politics, and a wide variety of other areas of interest or markets
Definition
Industry: Privately owned manufacturing or service businesses in a common area.
Examples are the auto and airline industries. The companies in the industry provide similar products or services. Standard industrial classification codes (SIC) have been established by the U.S. government to report industry data.
industry. (1995). In J. K. Shim, & J. G. Siegel, Dictionary of economics, wiley. Los Alamitos, CA: Shim and Siegel. Retrieved from https://libproxy.usc.edu/login?url=http://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/wileyecon/industry/0?institutionId=887