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How to Search for Information on the Global Business Environment
Lingnan University LibraryMar 2013http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/services/library-workshops/handouts
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After the workshop, you should be able to: use the online databases and web resources
to find country information (such as country profiles, membership of regional trade agreements, political risk, etc.) and industry Information & news for your group project.
locate various indicators/indices for country comparisons.
know the tools that help you to generate citations.
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Outline
Country Profiles
Country Competitiveness
Industry Information and News
BUS108 Global Business Environment Guide
Citing Sources
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Country Profiles
CIA World Factbook
BBC Country Profiles
GlobalEDGE Country Insights
GlobalEDGE: Global Resources Directory
Business Source Premier (BSP)
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CIA World Factbook
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Access: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html
Provides national-level information on countries, territories, and dependencies.
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BBC Country Profiles
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Access: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/country_profiles/
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GlobalEDGE
Created by the International Business Center at Michigan State University. It is a knowledge web-portal that connects international business professionals worldwide to a wealth of information, insights, and learning resources on global business activities.
Highlights:
Country Insights: A good source for country information in GlobalEDGE. Includes information on: Risk Assessment, Trade statistics, Rankings & Indices , etc.
Global Resource Directory: A directory of online resources on global business. Contents include: Regional Trade Agreements (e.g. Asia-Pacific Trade and Investment Agreements Database), Multi-Country (e.g. Country Watch ) Statistical Data Sources (e.g. DIBS, Asian Development Bank Statistics) and more…
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Access: http://globaledge.msu.edu/
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GlobalEDGE: Country Insights
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Access: http://globaledge.msu.edu/Global-Insights
Provides Statistics, history, politics and demographics for over 200 countries around the world.
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GlobalEDGE: Global Resources Directory A directory of resources allows you to find international
business and trade related resources.
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Access: http://globaledge.msu.edu/global-resources
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Business Source Premier (BSP)
Provides countries reports, industry reports, market reports in addition to full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text from more than 1,100 peer-reviewed journals.
Highlights:
Country Reports
Country Reports By title, Subject & Description Country name (e.g. Indonesia)
E.g. Indonesia Country Profile, Political Risk Yearbook: Indonesia Country Report, Indonesia Country Monitor, etc.
Company Profiles
Industry Profiles
Industry Profiles Alphabetical industry name (e.g. mobile phone)
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Business Source Premier (BSP)
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Access: Databases Key Databases Business Source Premier (EBSCOhost)http://proxy1.library.ln.edu.hk:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.asp?profile=bsi&defaultdb=buh
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Country Competitiveness IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook
Printed version: [REF] HF1414 .W67 CD-ROM version: [REF] HF1414 .W67 Online version:
http://proxy1.library.ln.edu.hk:2048/login?url=https://www.worldcompetitiveness.com/online
Doing Business: Benchmarking Business Regulations by World Bank http://www.doingbusiness.org
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World Competitiveness Yearbook
Access: http://proxy1.library.ln.edu.hk:2048/login?url=https://www.worldcompetitiveness.com/online
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Doing Business: Benchmarking Business Regulations by World Bank
Access: http://www.doingbusiness.org
are you still here
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Industry Information and News
HKTDC: Provides HK Industry profiles, country profiles and more.
LexisNexis: Contains full-text news, business information, legal information from over 6,000 sources all over the world.
Factiva : Provides searchable access to full-text information from over 35,000 online resources as well as tens of thousands of company reports and financial data. (No. of concurrent users = 5)
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HKTDC
16Access: http://www.tdctrade.com/
• Industry Profiles: Research Product Industries • Country Information: Research Developed Markets & Emerging Markets
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LexisNexis Academic
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Access:Databases Key Databases LexisNexis Academichttp://proxy1.library.ln.edu.hk:2048/login?url=http://www.lexisnexis.com/ap/academic
Contains full-text news, business information, legal information from over 6,000 sources all over the world.
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Factiva
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Provides searchable access to full-text information from over 35,000 online resources as well as tens of thousands of company reports and financial data. (No. of concurrent users = 5)
Access: Databases Key Databases Factiva
Select Companies /Markets
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BUS108 Global Business Environment Guide
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Access:Research Guides @ LU Business BUS108 Global Business Environment http://libguides.ln.edu.hk/bus108
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Citing Sources In academic writing, whenever we use
someone else’s works, ideas, theory, quotes, methods, data, etc. we must cite the original source.
Citation styles are the rules that govern on how we format these citations.
There are many different citation styles set up by different academic bodies or publishers. The most commonly used ones include the APA style, MLA style and the Chicago style.
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Citation Examples
A BookBoone, L. E. & Kurtz, D. L. (2006). Contemporary business. Australia : Thomson/South-Western.
A Journal ArticleCutler, D.M., Poterba, J.M. and Summers, L.H. (1990). Speculative dynamics and the role of feedback traders. American Economic Review, 80(2), 63-68.
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Citation Tools Cite Sources
http://libguides.ln.edu.hk/content.php?pid=350120&sid=2951254
RefWorks:
http://proxy1.library.ln.edu.hk:2048/login?url=https://www.refworks.com/refworks2/?r=authentication::init&groupcode=RWLingnanUL
Citation Builder (from NCSU Libraries)
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/citationbuilder/
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Questions?
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