For Internal Analysis of the company's Value Chain, Resources, Capabilities, Competitive Advantage, Structure, Culture, and Business Model, Financial Analysis Key Findings, here are some ideas to gather information:
1. Conduct your own analysis of the company's annual reports, SEC filings, and press releases to identify the information signifying its strengths and weaknesses in the above areas. These materials can be found on the public company's website - investor relations page.
2. External PEST and Industry analysis (First Research Industry Profile) has identified some key success factors and competitive advantages to succeed in the industry. You can analyze how the company performs compared to these factors.
3. Find executive/employee interviews from magazines or news sources that discuss the company's culture, resources, capabilities, value chain, etc. in magazines, newspapers, or even online.
4. Find magazines, newspaper articles, and even scholarly articles that analyze the company the business model, structure, culture, etc.
5. Online Search can also work effectively but pay attention to the quality sources from consulting firms, business news outlets, scholarly analysis and stay away from anonymous sources and student assignments. When you hit the paywall, you can consult the database/sources from this library guide or contact the research help at the library.
6. For financial analysis, beyond looking at the corporate's 10-K (Item 7 “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and Item 8 “Financial Statements and Supplementary Data”), you can also refer to industry ratios and financial benchmarking data to assess how the company's financial performance compared with the industry average. Sources for this industry's financial ratios are listed in a separate box below.
The followings are examples of the Magazine or Scholarly articles that can help you with the internal analysis:
Ritala, P., Golnam, A., & Wegmann, A. (2014). Coopetition-based business models: The case of Amazon. com. Industrial marketing management, 43(2), 236-249.
Podolny, J. M., & Hansen, M. T. (2020). How Apple is organized for innovation. Harvard Business Review, 98(6), 86-95.
Hoeft, F. (2021). Auto makers and radical innovation: culture, capital and talent form road blocks. Journal of Business Strategy. (mentioned Tesla)
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