World Demographic Trends 2009

From the United Nations:

http://unhq-appspub-01.un.org/lib/dhlrefweblog.nsf/dx/10022009013033PMUNRPQ7.htm

Two new e-commerce books in the library

We have received two more books on e-commerce; both of these are textbook-type books, with case studies and reviews.

Electronic Commerce, 8th Edition
Gary P. Schneider
Location in library: HF 5548.32 .S39 2009

E-Commerce: Business, Technology, and Society, 5th Edition
Kenneth C. Laudon and Carol Guercio Traver
Location in library: HF 5548.32 .L38 2009

Both of these are on shelf # 11 Right in the Daytona Beach campus library.

New book - Marketing and E-Commerce

We have received a new book on online marketing and e-commerce:

The New Rules of Marketing and PR: How to Use News Releases, Blogs, Podcasting, Viral Marketing and Online Media to Reach Buyers Directly

David Meerman Scott, author

Daytona Beach campus library

Call number: HF 5415.1265 .S393 2009
Shelf # 11 Right

Latin America and the Caribbean, Economic and Social Data, 2008

From USAID:

http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PNADM600.pdf

U.S. Employment Situation, December 2008

This is from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and details unemployment statistics for 12/08.

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm

Business Dynamics Statistics: The Changing Economy

This is a new site from the Census Bureau. From their description: "New tool gives insights into dynamics of changing economy." Their tables show the number of establishments, establishment openings and closings, employment, job creation/job destruction, and job expansions/job contractions, from 1976-2005.

http://www.ces.census.gov/index.php/bds

New business search engine

Biznar (http://biznar.com/biznar/) is a free business search engine - "a publicly available business research website." According to the description, "Biznar scans the best business websites on the internet, including blogs, news sites, patent sources, search engines, and deep web sources, returning the most relevant results to one, easily navigable, ranked page."

Since this searches deep web (invisible web) sites, and is specific to business, it will return more relevant information than a Google search.

The Stock Market

The stock market has certainly been in the news a lot lately! But what is the stock market? How does it work? What do the numbers mean?

Here are some answers.





How stocks and the stock market work: http://money.howstuffworks.com/personal-finance/financial-planning/stock.htm

How does the stock market work? http://life.familyeducation.com/personal-finance/lifestyle-and-home/47414.html

The stock market: what does it do and how has it performed? http://mailer.fsu.edu/~dmacpher/garnet-dmacpher/teaching/ECO2023/Lectures/10_S04.ppt
Dow Jones Industrial Average: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_Jones_Industrial_Average

Standard and Poor's 500: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S&P_500

NASDAQ: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASDAQ, http://www.nasdaq.com/

Russell 2000: http://www.russell.com/Indexes/characteristics_fact_sheets/US/Russell_2000_Index.asp

The Global Economy and the Group of 20

This article is from today's New York Times:

"The Group of 20 finance ministers and central bankers met over the weekend here with the intent of laying the groundwork for a critical meeting of world leaders in Washington next Saturday to tackle the global financial crisis."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/10/business/worldbusiness/10g20.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin

"Instead, Mr. da Silva and Mr. Mantega sought to assert the role of the Group of 20 in discussions typically dominated by the Group of 7 organization of advanced economies — Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States. The Group of 20, formed in the aftermath of the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s, is composed of the Group of 7 and 13 developing countries."

The countries in the Group of 20 (also known as the G-20) are the Group of 7 countries, named in the paragraph above, and Argentina, Australia, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, and the European Union. These are not the top 20 economies in the world, but together they account for 90% of global gross national product, 80% of world trade, and 2/3 of the world's population (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G20_industrial_nations). Individual members of the G-20 are the finance ministers and central bank governors of these countries, the president of the European Union (if the president's country is not already a member), and several other global economy leaders such as the managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the president of the World Bank.

Brazil, Russia, India and China are collectively known as the BRIC countries. They are four of the world's fastest-developing nations, and would like to have more input into the issues facing the global economy. The head of the IMF agrees, saying that the only global growth that will occur next year will come from these countries and others like them.

The G-20 countries are facing economic problems because of the problems of the G-7 economies. The problems of one country, or a few countries, cannot be isolated to just those countries. The global economy is too integrated for that.

For more information:

G-20: http://www.g20.org/G20/

International Monetary Fund: http://www.imf.org/external/index.htm

BRIC countries: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601080&sid=a92MjLFTwrkg&refer=asia

The World Bank: http://www.worldbank.org/

The global economy: http://wage.wisc.edu/

New format for blog

The format for this blog will be changing; it will now include business news from various sources, with suggestions for research on the given topic, as well as new books, useful links, and other new library resources. It will combine this blog, the New Books and Business Resources blogs into this blog.

Please feel free to leave comments!

Search engines for business research

Zibb: The Global Business Search Engine

http://www.zibb.com/

New York Public Library Science, Industry and Business Library - Research Guides

http://www.nypl.org/research/sibl/guides/

Harvard Business School Baker Library Research Guides

http://www.library.hbs.edu/guides/

The Virtual Chase: Database of Sources

http://www.virtualchase.com/topics/index.html

BusinessDictionary.com

http://www.businessdictionary.com/

The Way We Worked: Photographs from the National Archives (Business History)

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/twww/

Florida - related information

How Disasters Affect Local Labor Markets: The Effects of Hurricanes in Florida

http://ftp.iza.org/dp2976.pdf

Innovation

Value, Protect, Exploit: How Managing Intellectual Property Can Build and Sustain Competitive Advantage

http://www.deloitte.com/dtt/cda/doc/content/us_tmt_ManagingIP_072607.pdf


A Comparative Approach to the Protection of Fashion Innovations

http://repositories.cdlib.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1040&context=bclt

Leadership and supervision

Training Supervisors to be Leaders: A Missing Element in Efforts to Improve Federal Performance

http://www.govexec.com/pdfs/ALI_thompsonreport.pdf

Executive Excess 2007: The Staggering Social Cost of U.S. Business Leadership

http://www.ips-dc.org/reports/070829-executiveexcess.pdf

Hospitality and tourism

The Effects of Organizational Standards and Support Functions on Guest Service and Guest Satisfaction in Restaurants

http://www.hotelschool.cornell.edu/chr/research/abstract.html?repid=14462

Cornell University Center for Hospitality Research

http://www.hotelschool.cornell.edu/chr/

Workplace injuries and illness

NIOSH Fatal Occupational Injury Cost Fact Sheets

http://www.docuticker.com/?p=8341

Workplace injuries and illnesses in 2005

ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/news.release/osh.text


Postal Service’s Workplace Safety and Workplace-Related Injury Reduction Goals and Progress

http://www.uspsoig.gov/FOIA_files/HM-AR-07-002.pdf


National Census of fatal occupational injuries in 2006

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cfoi.pdf

Workers' Compensation: Benefits, Coverage and Costs, 2005

http://www.nasi.org/usr_doc/NASI_Workers_Comp_2005_Full_Report.pdf

Older workers

Why do boomers plan to work so long?

http://www.bc.edu/centers/crr/papers/wp_2006-19.pdf

Age, women and hiring: an experimental study

http://www.bc.edu/centers/crr/papers/wp_2006-23.pdf

How do age discrimination laws affect older workers?

http://www.bc.edu/centers/crr/issues/wob_5.pdf

Engaging and retaining older workers

http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d07438sp.pdf

Older Americans Update 2006: Key Indicators of Well-Being

http://www.agingstats.gov/agingstatsdotnet/Main_Site/Data/2006_Documents/OA_2006.pdf
Labor Market Rigidities and the Employment Behavior of Older Workers

http://ftp.iza.org/dp2996.pdf

What explains trends in labor force participation of older men in the United States?

http://ftp.iza.org/dp2991.pdf

Business and the environment

EarthTrends Searchable Database: Economics, Business and the Environment:

http://earthtrends.wri.org/searchable_db/index.php?theme=5

2006 Corporate Governance and Climate Change: Making the Connection

http://www.ceres.org/pub/publication.php?pid=84

Energy Strategy for the Future: U.S. EPA

http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=business.bus_energy_strategy

International and immigrant labor

International comparisons of hourly compensation costs for production workers in manufacturing

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/ichcc.toc.htm

Global manpower employment outlook survey 2007

http://www.manpower.com/mpcom/VisualLibraryMEOS.jsp?quarterID=63&articleID=373

A visual essay: international labor market comparisons

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2006/04/ressum.pdf

The role of immigrants in the U.S. labor market

http://www.cbo.gov/showdoc.cfm?index=8024&sequence=0

Comparative civilian labor force statistics, ten countries, 1960-2006:

http://www.bls.gov/fls/flscomparelf.htm

Foreign-born workers: labor force characteristics in 2006

http://www.bls.gov/news.re.ease/pdf/forbrn.pdf

International comparison of labour statistics 2006:

http://www.jil.go.jp/english/estatis/databook/index.htm

Hourly compensation costs for production workers in manufacturing, 33 countries or areas, 22 manufacturing industries, 1992-2005

http://www.bls.gov/fls/flshcindnaics.htm

Farm Labor Shortages and Immigration Policy

http://opencrs.cdt.org/document/RL30395/

A visual essay: international labor market comparisons

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2006/04/ressum.htm

International Comparison of Labour Statistics 2007

http://www.jil.go.jp/english/estatis/databook/index.htm

Working time flexibility in European companies

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/htmlfiles/ef0739.htm

Working Time Around The World - One in five workers worldwide are putting in "excessive" hours: New ILO study spotlights working time in over 50 countries

http://www.ilo.org/global/About_the_ILO/Media_and_public_information/Press_releases/lang--en/WCMS_082827


The flexibility of working time arrangements for women and men [European Union]

http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_OFFPUB/KS-SF-07-096/EN/KS-SF-07-096-EN.PDF

1995-2005: Foreign-born Latinos make progress on wages

http://pewresearch.org/pubs/572/latino-wages

Department of Labor's Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, 2001-2006

http://www.dol.gov/ILAB/media/reports/iclp/main.htm

Intellectual Property, the Immigration Backlog, and a Reverse Brain-Drain: America's New Immigrant Entrepreneurs

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1008366

China

Trade balances and jobs: Canada, the U.S. and China

http://policyalternatives.ca/documents/National_Office_Pubs/2007/Trade_Balances_and_Jobs.pdf

China's trade with the U.S. and the world

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL31403.pdf

Is China a threat to the U.S. economy?

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL33604.pdf

China's banking sector: growing towards diversification

http://www.deloitte.com/dtt/cda/doc/content/dtt_Boao_BankingEng041807.pdf

Growing pains: the evolving U.S.-China trade relationship

http://www.freetrade.org/pubs/FTBs/FTB-028.html

What's the difference? - Comparing U.S. and Chinese trade data

http://opencrs.cdt.org/document/RS22640

Doing Business in China:

http://www.buyusainfo.net/docs/x_3265405.pdf

Five challenges that China must overcome to sustain economic growth:

http://www.house.gov/jec/publications/109/07-27-06china_economy.pdf

China's car makers 10 years away from being competitive in US and Europe

http://graphics.eiu.com/files/ad_pdfs/eiu_Roland_Berger_China_Cars.pdf

China and India: The reality beyond the hype

http://www.deloitte.com/dtt/cda/doc/content/US_ChinaIndiaReality_Research.pdf

Surviving the China riptide: How to profit from the supply chain bottleneck

http://www.bcg.com/publications/files/ChinaRipTideMay07.pdf

China’s economic prospects 2006-2020

http://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/cp_83_polaski_final.pdf

What are the High-Probability Challenges to Continued High Growth in China?

http://www3.brookings.edu/views/papers/20070522woo.pdf

China's economic fluctuations and their implications for its rural economy

http://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/keidel_report_final.pdf


China’s Growing Demand for Oil and Its Impact on U.S. Petroleum Markets

http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/71xx/doc7128/04-07-ChinaOil.pdf


Doing Business In China: A Country Commercial Guide for U.S. Companies

http://www.buyusainfo.net/docs/x_3265405.pdf

China - U.S. Trade Issues

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL33536.pdf

China's Currency: Economic Issues and Options for U.S. Trade Policy

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL32165.pdf

Strengthening China's Technological Capability

http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/IW3P/IB/2007/08/09/000158349_20070809111012/Rendered/PDF/wps4309.pdf

China's Economic Prospects 2006-2020

http://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/cp_83_polaski_final.pdf

What's the Difference? Comparing U.S. and Chinese Trade Data

http://opencrs.cdt.org/document/RS22640

Global Value Chain Self-Assessment Tool: Overview of Results for China

http://www.csis.org/component/option,com_csis_pubs/task,view/id,4015/type,1/

Is the Chinese Growth Miracle Built to Last?

http://ftp.iza.org/dp2995.pdf

Health and Safety Concerns over U.S. Imports of Chinese Products: An Overview

http://www.opencrs.com/rpts/RS22713_20070828.pdf

China's Holdings of U.S. Securities: Implications for the U.S. Economy (01/09/08)

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL34314.pdf

China's Economic Fluctuations: Implications for Its Rural Economy (2007)

http://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/keidel_china_fluctuations_final.pdf