Title: How to Search for Information on the Global Business Environment
1 How to Search for Information on the Global
Business Environment
- http//www.library.ln.edu.hk/classes/2006/fall/pow
erpoint/ - Sep 2006
2Outline
- Country Profiles and Statistics
- Country Competitiveness
- Industry Information and News
- Citation Formats
3Country Profiles and Statistics (1)
- CIA World Factbook Provides national-level
information on countries, territories, and
dependencies. - Country Insights (from globalEDGE) Provides
current information on the business climate,
news, history, political structure, economic
landscape, and statistical data for more that 197
countries. - Business Source Premier (BSP) Provides full text
for more than 8,800 serials and non-journal
content includes market research reports,
industry reports, country reports, company
profiles and SWOT analyses. It covers topics on
accounting, banking, finance, international
business, management, marketing, real estate,
regional studies, sales, trade and technology.
4Country Profiles and Statistics (2)
- World Trade Organization (WTO) A global
international organization dealing with the rules
of trade between nations. The web site provides
information on statistics, research, publications
and other services offered by the WTO. - World Bank Provides information on health,
education, the environment, private sector
development, poverty, and economic reform issues,
etc. Includes factual data on the countries that
are assisted by the World Bank. Of particular
usefulness is the searchable WDS database of the
6,000 plus World Bank publications, select
full-text reports, and learning resources.
5Country Profiles and Statistics (3)
- Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) It was
established in 1989 to further enhance economic
growth and prosperity for the region and to
strengthen the Asia-Pacific community. APEC has
21 members, which account for more than a third
of the world's population (2.6 billion people),
approximately 60 of world GDP (US19, 254
billion) and about 47 of world trade. The APEC
website provides full-text news, media, events,
business resources, projects, publications,
documents and reports of all members.
6Country Profiles and Statistics (4)
- International Financial Statistics Contains
archival data on exchange rates, international
liquidity, international banking, money and
banking, interest rates, prices, production,
international transactions, government finance
and national accounts of IMF member countries. - Datastream Thousands of macroeconomic time
series data from World Bank, IMF, EuroStat, EIU
and local statistical offices. - DoingBusiness Benchmarking business regulations
by World Bank.
7CIA World Factbook
https//www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/inde
x.html
8Country Insights (GlobalEDGE)
http//globaledge.msu.edu/ibrd/CountryList.asp
9Business Source Premier (BSP)
http//www.library.ln.edu.hk/cgi-bin/luaccess?dbna
mebspbsi
10World Trade Organization (WTO)
http//www.wto.org
11World Bank
http//www.worldbank.org/
12Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
http//www.apec.org/
13International Financial Statistics(1)
http//www.library.ln.edu.hk/cgi-bin/luaccess?dbna
melibcd_ifs
14International Financial Statistics(2)
15Datastream
16 Doing Business Benchmarking business
regulations by World Bank
http//www.doingbusiness.org/
17World Competitiveness Yearbook
Call Number REF HF1414 .W67
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19Example Hong Kong
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22Call Number REF HF1414 .G559
23Industry Information and News
- tdctrade.com (Hong Kong Trade Development
Council) - Using the Library Catalogue to locate industry
reports available at LU. - Tablebase Contains tables of data relating to
companies, products, industries, brands, markets,
countries and demographics from around the world
on some 90 industries. - LexisNexis Academic Contains full-text news,
business information, legal information from over
5,600 sources all over the world. - Factiva Provides access to full-text information
from over 9,000 news resources as well as tens of
thousands of company reports and financial data.
24Hong Kong Trade Development Council
http//www.tdctrade.com/
25Tablebase
http//www.library.ln.edu.hk/cgi-bin/luaccess?dbna
metablebase
26LexisNexis Academic
http//www.library.ln.edu.hk/cgi-bin/luaccess?dbna
meacaduniv
27Factiva
http//www.library.ln.edu.hk/cgi-bin/luaccess?dbna
mefactiva
28Citation Examples (1)
- A Book
- Boone, L. E. Kurtz, D. L. (2006). Contemporary
business 2006. Australia Thomson/South-Western. - A Journal article
- Cutler, D.M., Poterba, J.M. and Summers, L.H.
(1990, May), Speculative dynamics and the role of
feedback traders. American Economic Review,
80(2), 63-68.
29Citation Examples (2)
- A Journal article retrieved from a database
- Sizoo, S. Serrie, H. (2004, June). Developing
cross-cultural skills of international business
students An experiment . Journal of
Instructional Psychology. 31 (2), 160-166.
Retrieved February 14, 2006, from Academic Search
Premier database. - A Web site
- Hong Kong Heritage Museum Leisure and Cultural
Services Department. (2005, September 1). New
Territories Heritage Hall. Retrieved February 14,
2006, from http//www.heritagemuseum.gov.hk/englis
h/exhibition.htm
30Citation Examples (3)
- A Web document
- Hong Kong Trade Development Council. (2004,
December 21). Market profiles Brazil. Retrieved
February 17, 2005, from http//www.tdctrade.com/mk
tprof/america/mpbra.htm - An Article from an online newspaper
- Vidal, J. Macalister, T. (2005, February
17). Kyoto protests disrupt oil trading. Guardian
Unlimited. Retrieved February 17, 2005, from
http//www.guardian.co.uk/
31Citation Styles
- RefWork
- http//www.library.ln.edu.hk/cgi-bin/luaccess?dbn
amerefworks - Citation Builder (from NCSU Libraries)
- http//www.lib.ncsu.edu/lobo2/citationbuilder/cit
ationbuilder.php - Using APA Format (Purdue University).
- http//owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r
_apa.html - APA Style Electronic Formats (by Dr. Mary Ellen
Guffey) - http//www.westwords.com/guffey/apa.html
- APA Citation Style (Concordia Libraries)
- http//library.concordia.ca/help/howto/apa.php
- Citation and Style
- http//www.library.ln.edu.hk/links/pages/Research_
Methods/Citation_and_Style/
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