How to Search for Information on the Global Business Environment Lingnan University Library Mar

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. 2

Outline  Country Profiles  Country Competitiveness  Industry Information and News  BUS108 Global Business Environment Guide  Citing Sources 3

Country Profiles  CIA World Factbook  BBC Country Profiles  GlobalEDGE Country Insights  GlobalEDGE: Global Resources Directory  Business Source Premier (BSP) 4

CIA World Factbook 5 Access: Provides national-level information on countries, territories, and dependencies.

BBC Country Profiles 6 Access:

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…Asia-Pacific Trade and Investment Agreements DatabaseCountry Watch DIBSAsian Development Bank Statistics e 7 Access:

GlobalEDGE: Country Insights 8 Access: Provides Statistics, history, politics and demographics for over 200 countries around the world.

GlobalEDGE: Global Resources Directory  A directory of resources allows you to find international business and trade related resources. 9 Access:

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) 10

Business Source Premier (BSP) 11 Access: Databases  Key Databases  Business Source Premier (EBSCOhost) n.asp?profile=bsi&defaultdb=buh

12 Country Competitiveness  IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook  Printed version: [REF] HF1414.W67[REF] HF1414.W67  CD-ROM version: [REF] HF1414.W67[REF] HF1414.W67  Online version: ness.com/online ness.com/online  Doing Business: Benchmarking Business Regulations by World Bank 

13 World Competitiveness Yearbook Access:

14 Doing Business: Benchmarking Business Regulations by World Bank Access: are you still here

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) 15

HKTDC 16 Access: Industry Profiles: Research  Product Industries Country Information: Research  Developed Markets & Emerging Markets

LexisNexis Academic 17 Access:  Databases  Key Databases  LexisNexis Academic  Contains full-text news, business information, legal information from over 6,000 sources all over the world.

Factiva 18 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

BUS108 Global Business Environment Guide 19 Access:  Research  LU  Business  BUS108 Global Business Environment 

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. 20

Citation Examples A Book Boone, L. E. & Kurtz, D. L. (2006). Contemporary business. Australia : Thomson/South-Western. A Journal Article Cutler, D.M., Poterba, J.M. and Summers, L.H. (1990). Speculative dynamics and the role of feedback traders. American Economic Review, 80(2),

Citation Tools  Cite Sources  RefWorks: m/refworks2/?r=authentication::init&groupcode=RWLingnanUL  Citation Builder (from NCSU Libraries) 22

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