Global Research Without Leaving Your Desk

Tools and search engines, and their characteristics; Global business information; Do you know your customer? Terrorism, surveillance and corruption; Where next? What’s new? Next generation social networking tools to enhance research outcomes; Conclusion; Fun stuff.

Provides a broad scope for research to take the frustration out of not being able to locate what you want, not just by country or region, but how to pinpoint and access reliable information on a global scale. Other issues addressed are Know-Your-Customer issues, corruption and terrorism and new Web 2.0 technologies.

• Information provided draws upon the authors’ real-life scenarios during her varied career
• The author has been a long term user of many of the authoritative sites that are shown as examples
• Practical pointers are provided for ways to recognise new resources

Business researchers and teachers in higher education with an interest in business research and students who are studying business, financial or economics topics