How to Search for Information on
the Global Business Environment
Mar 2011
http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/help/classes/2011/spring/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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CIA World Factbook
Provides national-level information on countries, territories, and dependencies.
Access: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html
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BBC Country Profiles
Access: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/country_profiles/
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Country Insights (from GlobalEDGE)
Provides current information on the business climate, news, history, political structure,
economic landscape, and statistical data for 201 countries.
Access: http://globaledge.msu.edu/countryInsights/
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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 from more than
1,100 peer-reviewed journals.
Access: http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/cgi-bin/luaccess?dbname=bspbsi
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ProQuest 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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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.
Access: http://www.wto.org
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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.
Access: http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/cgi-bin/luaccess?dbname=ifsonline
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Country Competitiveness
 IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook
 Printed version: [REF] HF1414 .W67
 CD-ROM version: [REF] HF1414 .W67
 Online version: http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/cgi-bin/ebwcy
 Doing Business: Benchmarking business
regulations by World
 http://www.doingbusiness.org
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World Competitiveness Yearbook
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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Hong Kong Trade Development Council
Access: http://www.tdctrade.com/
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Tablebase
Contains tables of data relating to companies, products, industries, brands,
markets, countries and demographics from around the world on 90 industries.
Access: http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/cgi-bin/luaccess?dbname=tablebase
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LexisNexis Academic
Contains full-text news, business information, legal information from over
6,000 sources all over the world.
Access: http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/cgi-bin/luaccess?dbname=acaduniv
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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.
Access: http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/cgi-bin/luaccess?dbname=factiva
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Lingnan Wiki
Access: http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/help/wiki/index.php/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),
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?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/
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http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/help/eref/
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Question?
Thank You !
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