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Miscellaneous Research Resources

1. Emerging Tech Markets

2. E-Business Outlook: 2003 A.T. Kearney / Line56 E-Business Survey - Summary and Findings

3. 2003 Index of Economic Freedom The Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal, November 12, 2002

4. Market Potential Indicators for Emerging Markets - 2002 Global Edge, July 9, 2002

5. World Development Indicators 2003 The World Bank

6. 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.

7. International Energy Annual Mobinet Index #5, A.T. Kearney, Inc.

8. 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.

9. ExecutivePlanet.com Business Culture Guides Essential business culture guides for the international traveller

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. 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.

13. Business Etiquette Around the World The site provides useful information on Hofstede’s cultural dimensions. It also provides Hofstede Analysis pages for several countries.

14. 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.

15. 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!

16. Cultural Savvy The site gives useful tips on business culture including some informative business culture oriented articles.

17. 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.

18. 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.

19. 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.

20. 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.

21. 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.

22. 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.

23. 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.

24. 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.

25. 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.

26. 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.

27. 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.

28. 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.

29. 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.

30. 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.

31. 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.

32. 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.

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