Title: PIMS and the FTC Line-of-Business data
Description: The PIMS data base and the FTC Line-of-business data base have both been widely used in industrial organization research and business strategy research. However, both data bases have been criticized because of their sample compositions, their measurement methodologies, and the underlying data structures. This study was designed to explore the issues that have been raised about the two data sets by comparing findings produced by them.
Subjects: Business information services, Marketing research