 Pegasus or Melvyl
UCSB owns current books about doing business with a number of countries. The books focus on legal/economic/market conditions, but do include info about business communication and etiquette. In Pegasus, do a "Title Begins with..." search with the phrase doing business. Then see all the books titled 'Doing Business in xxx' and 'Doing Business with xxx.'
Further, search by keyword or with these subjects: business communication (with a country or region), intercultural communication, business travel, international business enterprises, or with a country name and commerce, business enterprises, or economic conditions.
- BSP (Business Source Premier)
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Primary index to business literature: index and full-text of thousands of trade and scholarly publications in business, economics, and related fields. Also includes various country research reports. Included are CountryWatch Reports, titled "xxx [country name] Country Review". These include a 'Social Overview' with a section on cultural etiquette.
For the articles, suggested search terms (can use as "subject terms": communication, business communication, intercultural communication, business etiquette, communication and culture.
- ECONLIT descriptors: communication.
- Communication Abstracts Primary index to communication research. Suggested search phrases (exact 'descriptors' and 'identifiers:': business communication, cultural differences, intercultural communication, cross-cultural communication, ethnic differences, cross-national communication, cross-cultural research, organizational communication.
- Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts Primary index to linguistics research. Suggested search phrases (exact 'descriptors' and 'identifiers:': business, cross cultural communication, cultural differences, cultural factors, cultural change, and various terms describing countries and languages. .
- Sociological Abstracts Primary index to sociology research. Suggested search phrases (exact 'descriptors' and 'identifiers:': business, crosscultural differences , communication, crossnational differences, sociolinguistics.
- PsycINFO Primary index to psychology and related fields, including communication. Exact 'descriptors:' business, cross cultural differences, globalization, communication.
- Other: STAT-USA: Country Commercial Guides - see GLOBUS, then Country Commercial Guides (see the Business Travel sections for Business Customs and Etiquette, and Holidays) and Background Notes.
- Other: Post Reports - these reports discuss Americans' living conditions in foreign countries. See also US embassies and American Chambers of Commerce abroad.
- Babblefish.com
Source for language translation sources, both online and human.
- Guardian World News Guide
Great guide to English-speaking newspapers worldwide.
- LexisNexis Academic
The News/World News section features text of newspapers worldwide, including some foreign papers translated into English.
- Expanded
Academic ASAP
Index to articles on all topics
- Worldbiz
They sell reports on doing business in foreign countries.
- Also, check out these reference books:
- Countries and Their Cultures; Main Ref GN 307 C68 2001
- Encyclopedia of World Cultures; Main Ref GN 307 E53 1991
- Glossary of the Third World; Main Ref GN 307 K87 1989
- Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life; Main Ref GN 333 W67 1998
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