LibGuides: Company Histories and Competitiveness: Streaming Videos

Library Video Databases

The following library databases can be accessed from the Databases page.

Alexander Street Video - Multidisciplinary collection contains thousands of videos.
Films on Demand - Provides streaming films from sources such as Films for the Humanities and Sciences and Cambridge Educational
Kanopy - Provides streaming videos on a variety of subjects; includes titles from PBS, BBC, Criterion Collection, Media Education Foundation and more.

Here is a FULL LIST of library databases that include streaming videos.

Library Database Videos

The analysis of industry & competition: Application
HSTalks: 7:00
How do we use this analysis? The main purpose is to be able to predict an industry's profitability. There are three stages to this analysis.
Competition Bureau investigates Amazon for potentially harming Canadian businesses
Alexander Street Video: 2:00
The Competition Bureau is investigating Amazon.ca for practices that might be harming Canadian businesses. The competition watchdog is seeking input from Amazon's marketplace third-party sellers.
Competition or collaboration? The response of three automotive brands to globalization
HSTalks: 5:00
This case study examines the collaboration of three competitors, Toyota, Peugeot and Citroën; to explore globalisation in the automotive industry.
Disney, HBO, Apple, Netflix, and Amazon brace for the streaming wars
ProQuest Video: 14:30
Bloomberg Intelligence Media and Technology Analyst Geetha Ranganathan presents BI’s latest research on the streaming wars and what it means for investors, consumers at The Year Ahead Summit in New York.
Disney enters streaming wars
Alexander Street Video: 2:00
As people consume more entertainment online during the pandemic, Discovery enters the crowded field of streaming services.
Low entry barriers and growing competition in food ordering services: Seamless
HSTalks: 8:00
My name is Mariusz Soltanifar, and I am a researcher in the area of corporate entrepreneurship and a marketing lecturer at Hanze International Business School in Groningen, the Netherlands. Today I'm going to be talking about food ordering services and how the low entry barriers lead to growing competition from technology start-ups.
Monopolistic competition and oligopoly
HSTalks: 25:00
Welcome to talk number 12 in the Henry Stewart Talks series introduction to microeconomics. In this talk, we'll be looking at the two remaining market structures: monopolistic competition and oligopoly.
Perfect competition and monopoly
HSTalks: 25:00
In this talk, we'll be looking at "Perfect Competition and Monopoly", and seeking to answer questions such as, what is a perfectly competitive market and a monopoly? And what is their relevance to the consumer?
Regulation, competition, and government intervention
HSTalks: 47:00
We're going to be exploring the nexus between politics and business in the free market.
Sink or swim: How to survive waves of change in a fast-paced industry
ProQuest Video: 5:17
Why are companies like Apple on top of the world while others like Blackberry have been relegated to a minor market share? Why is Netflix king and Blockbuster extinct?
Types of competitive advantage
HSTalks: 8:00
Hi, I'm Allen Amason the Dean of the Parker college business at Georgia Southern University, Professor of Management and author of the textbook from Strategic Management from theory to practice. I am talking in this session about different types of competitive advantage.
Understanding competitive advantage
HSTalks: 17:00
Competitive advantage is the central concept in strategy. It's the concept which all other models and frameworks and concepts in strategy revolve around. But what does it actually mean to say that a firm has competitive advantage? How do we think about what that means?
What are common competitive actions?
HSTalks: 7:00
Hello, I'm Jeremy Short. G. Brint, Ryan chair in Entrepreneurship at the University of North Texas. And I'm here to talk about what are common competitive actions.
What could breaking up Big Tech mean for advertisers?
ProQuest Video: 28:15
A recent report from the Democratic staff of the House Antitrust Subcommittee found that big tech companies stifle competition and suggested that Congress should consider breaking up big tech.
What is competitive advantage?
Alexander Street Video: 2:00
This Video Explains Marketing - What is Competitive Advantage