Intercultural Communications and Management: Selected Electronic and Print Resources

Start your research by reading overviews of topics from 'real' online encyclopedias 

Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management
A comprehensive business encyclopedia in 12 volumes including business topics such as   business ethics, human resource management, international management, marketing, organizational behavior and strategic management. Articles contain good background information on the listed topic plus a bibliography for further reading.

Blackwell Guide to Business Ethics
The Blackwell Guide to Business Ethics acquaints the reader with ethical issues in the practice of business, theoretical and pedagogical issues. It provides a foundation for understanding changes to the nature of business due to technology and globalization and includes discussions of current ethical issues in areas such as marketing, accounting, and financial markets.

Blackwell Handout of Cross-Cultural Management
This handbook provides an overview of the major research perspectives in cross-cultural management and a look at how they can be applied to real-world situations by covering topics such as human resources, motivation, leadership behavior and corporate culture. 

Blackwell Handbook of Entrepreneurship
The Blackwell Handbook of Entrepreneurship brings together the best researchers to review up-to-date thinking on crucial topics in entrepreneurship studies. It is the first book to combine the research activities of Europe and USA, and reflects research with a multicultural perspective.

Companion to Business Ethics
This book cover topics such as the often uneasy relationship between business ethics and capitalism, the link between business ethics and ethical theory, how ethics applies to specific problems in the business world, the connection between business ethics and related academic disciplines, and the practice of business ethics in modern corporations.

The International Encyclopedia of Communication
This online encyclopedia covers many facets of communication studies including coverage of cutting edge theories, technology, interpersonal communication, intercultural and intergroup communication, business and organizational communication. 

Locate Articles and Statistics Using Electronic Databases

These databases are accessible from the O'Shaughnessy-Frey and Charles J. Keffer library and computer labs both at the Minneapolis and St. Paul campus.  They may also be accessed from remote locations via the World Wide Web. 

Academic Search Premier
Academic Search Premier is the world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database with full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,500 peer-reviewed journals.

Business Source Premier
Business Source Premier provides nearly 3,300 full text scholarly publications, including more than 1,000 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to the full text, this database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 4,100 journals.

Emerald Management Xtra
Emerald Management is a large andcomprehensive collection of peer-reviewed management journals featuring 125 full text journals and abstracts from the world's top 300 management journals.

Ethnic Newswatch
Ethnic Newswatch is a comprehensive collection of newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press. All articles are full-text.

Europa World Plus
Europa World Plus covers economic and political information in more than 250 countries and territories.

Political Risk Yearbook
Offers reports on 106 countries, giving accurate political and economic risk analysis regarding finding developing markets, determining currency movements, preparing for capital investments, or making judgments about corporate security.

Locate full text journal articles by journal title

If you have all the information to find a journal article, click on this page to find if the article is full text online.

Identify Books Using Online Catalogs

CLICnet  
This is the book and journal catalog for UST Libraries and several other local Universities.  Books and journal articles can be requested from other campuses online.

An effective way to find books related to intercultural communication in the catalog is by Title Keyword, using relevant terms you would expect to find in the title of a book. Once you find a book on your topic, you can use the book's official subject headings to find other books.

Listed here are some suggested subject headings for finding books on
intercultural communication.  All may be subdivided by place, i.e. "Business etiquette-Argentina."

Business communication
Business etiquette
Communication and culture
Corporate culture
Cross-cultural orientation
Cross-cultural studies
Intercultural communication
International relations
International relations and culture
Interpersonal relations and culture
Manners and customs
Multiculturalism 
Negotiation in business
Politics and culture

Identify specific titles on international culture and individual countries

Business Culture Around the World.
A guide to books in the UST Libraries and to web resources covering business culture, etiquette, and customs around the world.CultureGrams: The Nations Around Us.   Vol. 1: The Americas and Europe; Vol. 2: Africa, Asia, and Oceania.  Ref. GT 150 .C85

International Business Etiquette series:
  Asia and the Pacific Rim, Ref. HF 5389.3 .A78 S23
  Europe, Ref. HF 5389.3 .E85 S23
  Latin America, Ref. HF 5389.3 .L3 S22

International Encyclopedia of Business and Management.  Ref. HF 1001 .I53  (6 vols.)
Look under the name of a country or region for an article titled "Management"; for example, "Management in the Arab World," Management in Eastern Europe," Management in Spain," etc.

Kiss, Bow, or Shake Hands: How to Do Business in Sixty Countries.   Ref. HF 5389 .M67 (Ref. at OSF Library, Reserves at Keffer Library)

Finding books and articles not held at the library

Interlibrary loan, also known as "ILL", is a service that obtains books and journal articles from other libraries for you which are not available at the University of St. Thomas Libraries.  ILL service is available only to current UST students, faculty, and staff with a valid UST ID. If you need further assistance please ask a librarian.

Search Intercultural Communication and International World Wide Web Sites

Background Notes
Country profiles that provide an excellent starting point for learning about a country.  They include everything from demographics, an overview of their history and government structure, the economy and foreign relations.

Countries & Regions: Country Profiles
From the U.K. Foreign & Commonwealth Office the Country Profiles provide overviews for over 200 countries and regions around the world.

Eurobarometer
Eurobarometer is the public opinion analysis sector the European Commission and conducts surveys that address major topics concerning globalization, culture, information technology, the Euro, the environment and more
Our surveys and studies address major topics concerning European citizenship: enlargement, social situation, health, culture, information technology, environment, the Euro, defence, etc.

Everything International
Everything International provides links to a wide variety of international business, education, and research internet sites.  Users can search by individual countries, industries, and professional organizations. 

Executive Planet
Interesting site that provides insight on cultural issues to consider when doing business in other countries. Coverage includes discussion of how to make deals, business dress, public behavior, culture and many more tips.

globalEDGE Resource Desk
Developed by the Michigan State University's Center for International Business
Education and Research. This is an excellent collection of web business resources and national culture.

NationMaster.com
Provides country and regional graphs and descriptive statistics based on geography, military, economy, crime, education, culture and transportation.  Based on numerical data from the World Factbook.

Portals to the World
From the Library of Congress selective links providing authoritative, in-depth information about the nations and other areas of the world.  Covers business, culture, economy, history, and more for each country.  Currently over 180 countries are represented; when completed, it will include all nations of the world.

Research consultations

Professional reference service is available at both the St. Paul and Minneapolis campus libraries. If you are interested in a research consultation, contact:

Ryan Carter, Minneapolis, (651) 962-4646, cart1589@stthomas.edu
Marianne Hageman, St. Paul, (651) 962-5404, mdhageman@stthomas.edu
Eric Kallas, St. Paul, (651) 962-5013, epkallas@stthomas.edu
Andrea Koeppe, Minneapolis, (651) 962-4647, arhudson@stthomas.edu
Janice Kragness, Minneapolis, (651) 962-4645, jlkragness@stthomas.edu

Revised 2/07, 2/08 JK/AK