Business Information - INT200 - Skaff - Library at Shippensburg University

International Professional Workplace Cultures

Country Reviews (CountryWatch)
Extensive current background information on most countries of the world. Each report includes a section on Etiquette, in which personal and business styles and values are discussed. Link starts a search in Business Source Complete - Simply type your country name in a blank search box.

Ship Discovery Search This link opens in a new window
You can search our most comprehensive source for business books related to your country. See the search steps below for doing this.
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Click "Advanced Search"
Type your country name in the first search box and choose "Subject Terms" from the "Select a Field" drop-down menu
Paste the following search in the second search box:
business* or econom* or entrepreneur* or cultur* or etiquette or customs
This can be narrowed more by adding "business communication" to the third search box

Business Reports by Country (Business Source Complete)
This link conducts a "country report" search in Business Source Premier. Simply type your country name in a blank search box.
ProQuest ABI Inform Trade & Industry Reports Search
The ABI Inform: Trade & Industry database includes and extensive collection of country business reports. Simply enter your country name and search.
Countries and Economies (The World Bank)
This source from the World Bank is the best place to go for data on a country's social indicators, including education, gender, poverty, social development, health, and many more categories.

Passport (Euromonitor) This link opens in a new window
Includes research reports on industries and market segments, consumer behavior patterns, and country outlooks in the Americas, Asia-Pacific, Eastern and Western Europe.
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International Market Research (U.S. Commercial Service)
Provides extensive commercial guides to doing business with foreign countries. Simply select the name of the country you are interested in.
Complimentary Resources (World Bank)
This source provides links to key data sources in five key areas: Macroeconomic Stability, Openness, Human Capital, Governance, and Public Safety.

Mintel Reports (Mintel Oxygen) This link opens in a new window
Contains market reports for US and Western Europe and some brands.
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UN Monthly Bulletin of Statistics Online
This database includes current economic and social data on countries worldwide. The Industry data includes select data on energy, mining, manufacturing, transport, and construction.
UN Comtrade
The United Nations sponsored commodity trade statistics database. Create custom spreadsheets, tables, and graphs on trade between the countries worldwide.
World Trade Organization (WTO) Statistics
This site features country profiles for trade, tariff, and infrastructure services.
Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Extensive array of economic and development data on the 30 OECD member nations. Select by country to view a wide range of reports and documents.

ILOSTAT (International Labour Organization)
Search the major database for international labor-related statistics, produced by the International Labour Office (ILO). Includes data on employment, unemployment, hours, wages, labor cost, consumer price indices, occupational injuries, strikes, household income/expenditures, migration.
Labor Statistics (World Bank)
Scroll down to pick your country. A variety of other labor-related tables are available.

Ship Discovery Search This link opens in a new window
Our most comprehensive search tool. It searches simultaneously most of our library databases, including all our EBSCO databases and the library catalog, among others. Use Ship Discovery Search to locate all our books, ebooks, and videos, as well as our magazine and journal articles in all databases. It provides additional access to news articles and dissertations. Use it in combination with ProQuest All Databases Search.
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Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Business Source Complete is the world's definitive scholarly business database, providing the leading collection of bibliographic and full text content. As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 are included. In addition, searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,300 journals.
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ABI INFORM Collection
One of the largest and most comprehensive business databases. It include scholarly and business sources in all areas of business, management, marketing and others, including scholarly journal articles, trade journal articles, dissertations, market reports, industry reports, business cases and global and trade news.