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Emerging
Tech Markets
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E-Business
Outlook: 2003
A.T. Kearney / Line56 E-Business Survey - Summary
and Findings
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2003 Index of
Economic Freedom
The Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street
Journal, November 12, 2002
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Market Potential
Indicators for Emerging Markets - 2002
Global Edge, July 9, 2002
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World Development
Indicators 2003
The World Bank
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International Telecommunications
Union
ICT Indicators The ITU's Telecommunication Indicator
Reports present an analysis of trends and developments in the global
telecommunications sector, backed by official statistics from the
world's leading source of telecommunication information. These reports
and databases are available online.
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International
Energy Annual
Mobinet Index #5, A.T. Kearney, Inc.
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Country
Insights
Global Edge: An outline of the business climate,
political structure, history, and statistical data for more than 190
countries. Includes regional and country specific links in addition to a
general overview of each geographic area.
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ExecutivePlanet.com
Business
Culture Guides Essential
business culture guides for the international traveller
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Executive
Planet
This site provides relevant information on international
business culture, business customs and protocol, gift-giving,
negotiating tactics, business entertainment and more. Focusing on
country-specific business customs and etiquette, Executive Planet also
features information on negotiating, business entertaining,
cross-cultural communication, business dress and other areas of business
protocol.
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Global Road
Warrior
Provides customized information for 161 countries. Apart
from some basic country facts/statistics, the site goes into great
detail describing the climate, transportation, communications, business
culture, and many more aspects of each country. Overall, this is a very
comprehensive resource. Also listed under Multi-Country.
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Geert Hofstede
Analysis
Dr.
Geert Hofstede
conducted perhaps the most comprehensive study of how values in
the workplace are influenced by culture. From 1967 to 1973, while
working at IBM as a psychologist, he collected and analyzed data from
over 100,000 individuals from forty countries. From those results, and
later additions, Hofstede developed a model that identifies four primary
dimensions to differentiate cultures. He later added a fifth dimension,
Long-term Outlook.
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Business
Etiquette Around the World
The site provides useful information
on Hofstede’s cultural dimensions. It also provides Hofstede Analysis
pages for several countries.
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Adherents
Adherents.com is a
growing collection of over 41,000 adherent statistics and religious
geography citations -- references to published membership/adherent
statistics and congregation statistics for over 4,200 religions,
churches, denominations, religious bodies, faith groups, tribes,
cultures, movements, ultimate concerns, etc.
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Business Netiquette
International
Hosted by the Business Start page, this is the only
netiquette to consider business etiquette, keeping international
business in mind. Read it before pursuing business correspondence
through e-mail!
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Cultural
Savvy
The site gives useful tips on business culture including
some informative business culture oriented articles.
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FREEDOM IN
THE WORLD 2003:
The Annual Survey of Political Rights and Civil
Liberties Since 1978, Freedom House has published Freedom in the World,
an annual comparative assessment of the state of political rights and
civil liberties in 192 countries and 18 related and disputed
territories. Widely used by policy-makers, journalists, and scholars,
the 700-page survey is the definitive report on freedom around the
globe.
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STAT-USA/Internet
A service of
the U.S. Department of Commerce, is the site for the U.S.
business, economic and trade community, providing authoritative
information from the Federal government.
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Euromonitor
International
Has more than 30 years experience of publishing
market research reports, business reference books and online information
systems. Our business information and statistics offer a complete
solution for strategic marketing planning.
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Culture,
Communication and Intercultural Communication
The site hosts
project reports and papers from Stephan Dahl, a lecturer at the
University of Luton. Topics covered include communication, cultural
transformation and cultural values in business advertising. Also listed
under Paper Depositories.
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IBRC
Cultural Perspective Reports
Cultural Perspective Reports (CPRs)
have been designed to provide a U.S. business person with a cultural
overview of a foreign country, with particular emphasis on business
customs and practices. These reports tend to be short (4 to 5 pages) and
very easy to absorb and understand.
Reports are immediately available for each of the
top U.S. trading partners (listed to the right) although custom reports
can be prepared by KU IBRC staff for any of the more than 200 nations
that U.S. businesses sell to or buy from. Each report is reviewed by a
University of Kansas faculty member or business professional with area
expertise prior to being publicly released.
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Etiquette
International
Several articles providing insights on
cross-cultural business etiquette. Tips on professionally getting
through some of the everyday business interactions are also
provided.
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European
Cultural Digest
The “How to do business in Europe” section
compares the business cultures of the Americans and the different
European countries. Areas covered include international negotiation and
bidding. The site also features articles on business and social culture
in Europe.
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Europublic
A site focusing on
the cultural aspects of Europe. Articles highlighting cultural
differences between European countries, intercultural communication,
global marketing and cultural tips are featured in the "Articles"
section. These are classified by author.
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Guide
to Business Etiquette in Asia
The guide provides information on
the business culture of Asian countries. Information is available by
country and covers business attire, introductions, titles and other
general cultural tips.
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IBRC
Cultural Perspective Reports
The International Business Resource
Connection features short reports on the business customs of US trading
partners. Reports are currently available for Australia, Germany, India,
Indonesia, Israel, Japan, South Korea, Philippines, Saudi Arabia,
Switzerland, United Kingdom, Venezuela and Vietnam.
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Inter-American
Understanding
Dedicated to the advancement of better working
relationships between North Americans and Latin Americans, the site
provides information comparing and contrasting business practices in
these two cultures.
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International
Addresses and Salutations
Hosted by the Business Start page, this
page is essential not just for business people, but for anyone that
corresponds internationally. This page provides the correct address
formats and appropriate personal salutations for each and every country.
Also listed under Standards and Conversions.
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ITIM
National cultures
The Intercultural Management section of ITIM
gives a list of countries and their scores according to Hofstede's five
dimensions - also includes explanations of the dimensions.
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The
Web of Culture
The Web of Culture offers a number of services
pertaining to cultural issues. The main concepts of the site promote the
globalization of cultural trends and web sites. The majority of the site
and therefore resources are fee-based, although they offer a freely
accessible monthly newsletter that delves into web globalization
techniques and strategies. Also freely available are brief
country/cultural reports for: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Qatar, Tajikistan,
Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
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Country
Profiles from Window of the World Inc.
Handy hints and tips on
conducting business around the world. These are available by country and
address topics such as meeting and greeting, corporate culture, dining
and entertainment, gifts and dressing.
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World Values
Survey
The World Values Survey is a worldwide investigation of
sociocultural and political change. It has carried out representative
national surveys of the basic values and beliefs of publics in more than
65 societies on all six inhabited continents, containing almost 80
percent of the world's population. It builds on the European Values
Surveys, first carried out in 1981. A second wave of surveys, designed
for global use, was completed in 1990-1991, a third wave was carried out
in 1995-1996 and a fourth wave took place in 1999-2001. This
investigation has produced evidence of gradual but pervasive changes in
what people want out of life, and the basic direction of these changes
is, to some extent, predictable. This study has given rise to more than
300 publications, in 16 languages.
