1. How to Search for Information on the Global Business Environment Mar 2011 http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/help/classes/2011/spring/powerpoint/ 1

2. Outline  Country Profiles and Statistics  Country Competitiveness  Industry Information and News  Lingnan Wiki – BUS108  Citation Tools 2

3. CIA World Factbook 3 Access: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.htmlhttps://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html Provides national-level information on countries, territories, and dependencies.

4. BBC Country Profiles 4 Access: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/country_profiles/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/country_profiles/

5. Country Insights (from GlobalEDGE) 5 Access: http://globaledge.msu.edu/countryInsights/http://globaledge.msu.edu/countryInsights/ Provides current information on the business climate, news, history, political structure, economic landscape, and statistical data for 201 countries.

6. Business Source Premier (BSP) 6 Provides countries reports, political risk yearbooks, 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. Access: http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/cgi-bin/luaccess?dbname=bspbsi http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/cgi-bin/luaccess?dbname=bspbsi

7. ProQuest ABI/Inform (EIU Viewswire) 7 Provides concise overview of the economic and social political profile of individual countries as well as the regulations relevant to trade and investments.

8. World Trade Organization (WTO) 8 Access: http://www.wto.orghttp://www.wto.org 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.

9. International Financial Statistics 9 Access: http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/cgi-bin/luaccess?dbname=ifsonline http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/cgi-bin/luaccess?dbname=ifsonline 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.

10. 10 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: http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/cgi-bin/ebwcyhttp://www.library.ln.edu.hk/cgi-bin/ebwcy  Doing Business: Benchmarking business regulations by World  http://www.doingbusiness.org http://www.doingbusiness.org

11. 11 World Competitiveness Yearbook Access: http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/cgi-bin/ebwcy http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/cgi-bin/ebwcy

12. 12 Doing Business: Benchmarking business regulations by World Bank Access: http://www.doingbusiness.orghttp://www.doingbusiness.org

13. Hong Kong Trade Development Council 13 Access: http://www.tdctrade.com/ http://www.tdctrade.com/

14. Tablebase 14 Access: http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/cgi-bin/luaccess?dbname=tablebasehttp://www.library.ln.edu.hk/cgi-bin/luaccess?dbname=tablebase Contains tables of data relating to companies, products, industries, brands, markets, countries and demographics from around the world on 90 industries.

15. LexisNexis Academic 15 Access: http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/cgi-bin/luaccess?dbname=acadunivhttp://www.library.ln.edu.hk/cgi-bin/luaccess?dbname=acaduniv Contains full-text news, business information, legal information from over 6,000 sources all over the world.

16. Factiva 16 Access: http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/cgi-bin/luaccess?dbname=factiva http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/cgi-bin/luaccess?dbname=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.

17. Lingnan Wiki 17 Access: http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/help/wiki/index.php/BUS108_Global_Business_Environment http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/help/wiki/index.php/BUS108_Global_Business_Environment

18. 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), Speculative dynamics and the role of feedback traders. American Economic Review, 80(2), 63-68. 18

19. Citation Tools  RefWorks: http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/cgi-bin/luaccess?dbname=refworks  Citation Builder (from NCSU Libraries) http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/citationbuilder/  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/eresources/internet_resources/Research_Metho ds/ 19

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