Periodicals  (The Candy Jar)

 

Business and Company Resource Center -   Brings together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information.  A Thomson Gale database.

 

Academic OneFile - Academic OneFile is the premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources.  Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.  A Thomson Gale database.

 

Business and Company ASAP - A good source of journal literature on business topics and individual companies.  A Thomson Gale database.

 

ProQuest Newstand database.  Includes coverage of 27 newspapers including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post, plus other important U.S., international and minority interest papers.   
 

 

 

Books

 

Encyclopedia of business and finance / Burton S. Kaliski, editor-in-chief.

Culture's Consequences: International Differences in Work-Related Values, by Geert Hofstede. [GN502.H63]

 

The Lexus and the Olive Tree, by Thomas L. Friedman.   [HF1359 .F74 2000]

 

Dun & Bradstreet's Guide to Doing Business Around the World  [HF1416 .M78 2001]

Doing Business Internationally : The Guide to Cross-Cultural Success [HD31 .B7235 2003]

 

Doing Business in the new Latin America : a guide to cultures, practices, and opportunities [HF3230.5 .Z5 B43 2004]

Doing Business in Emerging Europe [HF1532.7 .Z368 2003]

Europa Guide to Central and South-Eastern Europe [Ref JN1.E85 2003]

 

Doing Business in the New China [HG5784 .Z56 2004]

Europa Guide to Far East and Australasia [Ref JN1.E85 2003]

 

Cross-Cultural Business Behavior: Marketing, Negotiating, and Managing Across Cultures.  [Contains short chapters on the negotiating and communication styles in different countries, including India, China, Slovakia, Romania, Ireland, and Australia.]  [HF5389.G47 2002]

 

Understanding Global Cultures: Metaphorical Journeys through 23 Nations. [Contains chapters on the prevailing cultural philosophies of India, Ireland, and China].  [GN345.7 .G36 2001]

 

 

Find More Books

TIP!  Try "Export Marketing" as a subject term!

LCSC Library Catalog - provides information about the materials owned by the LCSC Library and other North Idaho Academic Libraries, including North Idaho College and the University of Idaho.  Also has a link to WIN Libraries, so you can search Gonzaga, Whitworth, and VALNet Libraries.

WorldCat - A catalog of items held at libraries throughout the world.  Many of these materials can be borrowed through inter-library loan.  This database also provides more in-depth cataloguing to materials owned by LCSC.

Web Sites

 

Standard & Poor's Net Advantage - Provides basic financials, stock advisories, and industry analysis for thousands of public companies.

ThomasNet - Comprehensive directory listings for industrial companies, products and services.  Formerly published in paper as the Thomas Register.

 

Westlaw - Online legal research service provides quick, easy access to West's vast collection of statutes, case law materials, public records and other legal resources, as well as current news articles and business information.

 

Business Plans and Profiles Index - Sample business plans in various industries.  From Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.

 

 

 

Search for American Chambers of Commerce abroad.

 

 

Competitive Alternatives [A report from KPMG that analyzes and compares business costs in 17 industries in Australia, Canada, France, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States.]

 

VIBES – Virtual International Business & Economics Sources [A service of the library of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, VIBES provides over 1,600 links to Internet sources of international business and economic information that are in English and available free of charge. Links include: Full-text files of recent articles and research reports, Statistical tables and graphs, and Portals (pages with links to other sources).]

 

newnations.com [A service of British-based International Industrial Information, Inc.  It provides free reports on emerging economies around the world.  They also sell customized reports to businesses.  You will have to register your email address the first time you read a report, but it is a free service.]

 

Country Studies [Full-text of Department of Army Country Studies, provided by the Library of Congress.  Better for long-term information (society and culture) than for economic information, as some of these studies are rather old.]

 

European Union [The official site of the EU].

 

USA.gov [A search engine for U.S. Government Web pages].

        Background Notes [from the U.S. State Department].

 

APA Citation Style - examples of citations in APA Format for your list of References.

APA Interactive Tutorial - Developed by Mr. Kevin Schoepp.