Business & Management: International Business
International Company & Industry Research
- Gale Business: Insights This link opens in a new windowDetailed company and industry reports, profiles, and news.More InfoFull-Text UB ONLY
- Mergent Intellect This link opens in a new windowMergent Intellect, formerly Hoover's, includes information on both public and private U.S. companies, Canadian companies, and international companies. More InfoUB ONLY
General Resources
- Enterprise SurveysThe surveys cover a broad range of business environment topics including access to finance, corruption, infrastructure, crime, competition, and performance measures. To date, over 164,000 interviews in 144 countries have taken place under the Global Methodology.
- Business Ready (B-READY)The World Bank’s flagship report benchmarking the business environment and investment climate in most economies worldwide. The report assesses the regulatory framework and public services directed at firms, and the efficiency with which regulatory framework and public services are combined in practice.
- OCCRP Network's Database CatalogA global index of public registries for company, land and court records. The list contains over 1,000 sources from 181 countries.
- OECDThe Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is an international organisation that works to build better policies for better lives.
Great resource for country data, profiles and research by global topic (education, development, corruption, etc.) - Worldbank Open DataFind data by country or region for a large set of economic indicators.
- CIA World FactbookThe World Factbook provides information on the history, people and society, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.
Country-specific Resources
Canada
- Search for a Federal CorporationSearch for and view key data on Federal Canadian Corporations. Search by Corporate Name, Corporate Number, or Business Number.
- Canada's Business RegisteriesInformation from the official registries of Alberta, British Columbia, Corporations Canada, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, and Saskatchewan. This service lets you search across these registries at one time.
China
- Ministry of Commerce, People's Republic of ChinaA collection of official statistical reports on business activity in China, including imports/exports, foreign investment, regional trade, etc.
Etiquette, Culture, and Business Relations
Etiquette and Taboos Around the World by
ISBN: 9781440838200Publication Date: 2017-10-05Readers of this one-volume reference will gain useful knowledge of what travelers should and shouldn't do when in countries outside of the United States. After a general introduction, approximately 100 alphabetically arranged entries cover topics such as greeting and meeting, appearance and dress, table manners, body language, social situations and hospitality, verbal communications, business etiquette, religious etiquette, gift-giving, and even "netiquette" regarding social media.A China Business Primer: Ethics, Culture, and Relationships by
ISBN: 0367506718Publication Date: 2021The COVID-19 pandemic underscored longstanding fissures in China’s business relationships with the West. If the West is going to develop a relationship of mutual trust and improve business relations with China in the coming decades, it is imperative to understand how to engage with Chinese thinking on ethics in business—this book explains how.
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Additional Reading
- Council of Foreign Relations BackgroundersAuthoritative, accessible, and regularly updated primers on hundreds of foreign policy topics.
- Global Issues (Gale In Context) This link opens in a new windowTies together news, perspectives, reference materials, primary source documents, audio, video, statistics, and more. More InfoFull-Text UB ONLY