How to Search for Information on the Global Business Environment

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How to Search for Information on the Global
Business Environment

• Jan 2009
• http//www.library.ln.edu.hk/classes/powerpoint/

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Outline

• Country Profiles and Statistics
• Country Competitiveness
• Industry Information and News
• Lingnan Wiki BUS108
• Citation Tools

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Country Profiles and Statistics (1)

• CIA World Factbook Provides national-level
  information on countries, territories, and
  dependencies.
• BBC Country Profiles.
• Country Inights (from globalEDGE) Provides
  current information on the business climate,
  news, history, political structure, economic
  landscape, and statistical data for 199
  countries.
• Business Source Premier (BSP) Provides countries
  reports, political risk yearbooks, industry
  reports, market reports in addition to full text
  for more than 2,300 journals, including full text
  for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed journals .
• ABI/Inform EIU Viewswire provides concise
  overview of the economic and social political
  profile of individual countries as well as the
  regulations relevant to trade and investments.

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Country 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.
• 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.

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CIA World Factbook
Access https//www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factb
ook/
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BBC Country Profiles
Access http//news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/country_profile
s/
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Country Insights (GlobalEDGE)
Access http//globaledge.msu.edu/countryInsights/

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Business Source Premier (BSP) Country Reports,
Political Risk Yearbooks, etc.
Access http//www.library.ln.edu.hk/cgi-bin/luacc
ess?dbnamebspbsi
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ProQuest ABI/Inform (EIU Viewswire)
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World Trade Organization (WTO)
Access http//www.wto.org
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International Financial Statistics
Access http//www.library.ln.edu.hk/cgi-bin/luacc
ess?dbnameifsonline
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Datastream
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Country Competitiveness

• World Competitiveness Yearbook
• Printed version REF  HF1414 .W67
• CD-ROM version REF  HF1414 .W67
• Online version http//www.library.ln.edu.hk/cgi-b
  in/ebwcy
• Doing Business Benchmarking business
  regulations by World
• http//www.doingbusiness.org

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World Competitiveness Yearbook
Search Library by Book Title World
Competitiveness YearbookCall Number REF
 HF1414 .W67 (Lingnan Only Web access
http//www.library.ln.edu.hk/cgi-bin/ebwcy )
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Doing Business Benchmarking business
regulations by World Bank
Access http//www.doingbusiness.org/
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Industry Information and News

• tdctrade.com (Hong Kong Trade Development
  Council)
• 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
  6,000 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.

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Hong Kong Trade Development Council
Access http//www.tdctrade.com/
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Tablebase
Access http//www.library.ln.edu.hk/cgi-bin/luacc
ess?dbnametablebase
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LexisNexis Academic
Access http//www.library.ln.edu.hk/cgi-bin/luacc
ess?dbnameacaduniv
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Factiva
Access http//www.library.ln.edu.hk/cgi-bin/luacc
ess?dbnamefactiva
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Lingnan Wiki
Access http//www.library.ln.edu.hk/wiki/index.ph
p/BUS108_Global_Business_Environment
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Citation Examples

• 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.

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Citation Tools

• RefWorks
• 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 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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