How to Search for Information on the Global Business Environment

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How to Search for Information on the Global
Business Environment

• http//www.library.ln.edu.hk/classes/powerpoint/
• Feb 2008

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Outline

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

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Country 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 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 350 of the top scholarly journals
  dating as far back as 1922.
• 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.
• 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.
  

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Country 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.

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Country 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.

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CIA World Factbook
https//www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/
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Country Insights (GlobalEDGE)
http//globaledge.msu.edu/countryInsights/
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Business Source Premier (BSP) Country Reports,
Political Risk Yearbooks, etc.
http//www.library.ln.edu.hk/cgi-bin/luaccess?dbna
mebspbsi
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ProQuest ABI/Inform (EIU Viewswire)
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World Trade Organization (WTO)
http//www.wto.org
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World Bank
http//www.worldbank.org/
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Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
http//www.apec.org/
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International Financial Statistics
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Datastream
Example download and compare average wage of
China and Thailand from Datastream
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Doing Business Benchmarking business
regulations by World Bank
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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Example Hong Kong
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Call Number REF HF1414 .G559 
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Industry 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
  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
http//www.tdctrade.com/
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Tablebase
http//www.library.ln.edu.hk/cgi-bin/luaccess?dbna
metablebase
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LexisNexis Academic
http//www.library.ln.edu.hk/cgi-bin/luaccess?dbna
meacaduniv
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Factiva
http//www.library.ln.edu.hk/cgi-bin/luaccess?dbna
mefactiva
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Lingnan Wiki
http//www.library.ln.edu.hk/wiki/
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Citation 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.

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Citation 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

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Citation 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/

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Citation Styles

• 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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Assistance

• Ask A Librarian
• http//www.library.ln.edu.hk/eref/
• Integrated Helpdesk
• refstaff_at_ln.edu.hk
• 2616-8571

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