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WebEc: The List of Economic Journals

21st Century Workforce Commission

  • A Nation of Opportunity - (dead link)
    The Commission's final report "issued recommendations for developing the nation's new high tech workforce. The final
    report and accompanying materials provide an analysis of
    how leadership in regional partnerships of education, business
    and government can effectively address critical shortages of
    skilled workers in Information Technology jobs."

Academy of Entrepreneurship Journals - (dead link) (ejournals)
"The Academy of Entrepreneurship is an affiliate of the Allied Academies. The AE has established as its mission, providing the academic community with a forum for the discussion, publication and dissemination of research into the field of entrepreneurship."
The following journals are published: Academy of Entrepreneurship Journal, International Journal of Entrepreneurship, Journal of Entrepreneurship Education, and Entrepreneurial Executive.

Advertising Age

Adweek Online

Annual Report Gallery - (dead link)
Includes over 2000 annual reports and covers most of the fortune 500.

Asia Inc Online

American Banker Online

Arab-American Business
The Magazine For A Culture Of Success

Asia-Inc
"Asia Inc Magazine provides its readers with a competitive edge by giving them unique access to the insights of the key decision makers and thinkers about business in Asia."

AsiaWeek Online - (dead link)

Australian Journal of Management

Bank for International Settlements

Barron's Online

Bank of International Settlements

BPubs.com
Business Publications Search Engine

Branham300 Online
"...annual ranking of the top 300 Canadian Information Technology (IT) companies..."

Business Dictionaries
From Galileo Internet Resources - Business & Economics

The Business Eccountant
"This website contains weekly business news designed to be of interest to students. The Business Eccountant tracks news from 40 companies world-wide, as well as giving other business news in brief."

Business Filings Databases
LLRX.com - Update Published December 17, 2001
By Kathy Biehl

Business Plan Archive
"To help us learn from history, we are creating the Business Plan Archive (BPA) to collect business plans and related documents from the dot com era. These plans ñ the ìblueprintsî that lay out the assumptions and strategies of Internet entrepreneurs ñ will enable entrepreneurs and researchers to conduct both qualitative and quantitative research. The business plans we collect will ultimately be stored in the Archives and Manuscript Library at the University of Maryland, College Park."
- Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland

Business Quarterly - (dead link)

Business to Business - (dead link)

Business Week Online

Business Wire

California Professional and Business License Handbook - (dead link) 6th ed., 1999

Canadian Corporate News

Career Guide to Industries
2002-03 ed.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

CIO: The Magazine for Information Executives - (dead link)

Citizens for Tax Justice - (dead link)

  • Less Than Zero: Enron's Income Tax Payments, 1996-2000 - (dead link)
    "A January 17 analysis of Enron's financial documents by Citizens for Tax Justice finds that Enron paid no corporate income taxes in four of the last five years-- although the company was profitable in each of those years."

Computerworld's Emmerce

Daily World Wire - (dead link)
Highlights from Ad Age

Data Administration Newsletter
 "The Data Administration Newsletter (TDAN.com) is an internationally recognized publication that focuses on the management of data, information, and knowledge as valued corporate assets. TDAN.com was founded in 1997 by consultant and publisher Robert S. (Bob) Seiner and has grown to an audience of tens of thousands of readers."

Directory of Corporate Archives in the United States and Canada
By the Society of American Archivists, Business Archives Section

Drucker Archives
"The Drucker Archive contains the life works of this extraordinary thinker and ìsocial ecologistî. This body of work will serve students, managers, scholars, and researchers for generations to come as the works and thoughts of Peter Drucker continue to ripple through our intellectual community."

Doing Business Guides: Countries and States
From Hieros Gamos

EC-Today- Electronic Commerce Daily

Economist

The Emanuel Saxe Distinguished Lectures in Accounting
Newman Library, Digital Collections, Baruch College of the City University of New York

eFinancial News

Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920
"...presents over 9,000 images, with database information, relating to the early history of advertising in the United States. The materials, drawn from the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University, provide a significant and informative perspective on the early evolution of this most ubiquitous feature of modern American business and culture."

Environment and Trade: A Handbook
By The United Nations Environment Programme and the International Institute for Sustainable Development

Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM) (Netherlands)

  • Annual Report on Research - (dead link)
  • Report Series Research in Management - (dead link)

Euromoney-Worldlink

European Agency for Safety and Health at Work

  • "The State of Occupational Safety and Health in the European Union - Pilot Study" - (dead link)

Far Eastern Economic Review

Fast Company


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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

  • Historical Statistics on Banking
    "...provides annual statistical information on the banking industry beginning in 1934. These data can be used to identify and analyze long-term trends and to develop benchmarks to evaluate the current condition of the banking and thrift industries... The HSOB contains aggregated data from individual financial reports filed by FDIC-insured commercial banks and savings institutions. These aggregated data are also available for individual states, U.S. territories and U.S. possessions."
  • Statistics on Depository Institutions (SDI)
    "...is an advanced feature of the FDIC's Institution Directory (ID) system. Within SDI, the end user will find financial reports that are presented in greater detail and equipped with increased functional power to analyze the financial institutions industry."

Federal Reserve Board - (dead link)

Federal Trade Commission

Finance and Development - (dead link)

Financial Crises in Emerging Markets
"This NBER [National Bureau of Economic Research] project is examining the causes of currency crises in emerging market countries as well as the policies that can reduce the risk of future crises and the adverse effects when such crises occur...This site contains a list of NBER working papers on this subject. Clicking on the paper title below will lead to an abstract of the paper and to a full copy of the paper itself. The papers can be downloaded without any charge by anyone in an emerging market country or in an institution that subscribes to the NBER Working Papers"

Financial News see eFinancial News

FT.com - Financial Times

  • Country & Industry Surveys on FT.com
    "The Financial Times publishes approximately 240 surveys annually which appear with copies of the newspaper most days of the week. Topics include financial markets, global industries, business management and developed and emerging countries."

Forbes

  • Forbes 500s Annual Directory - (dead link)
  • Forbes International 800 - (dead link)
    Annual list of the 800 largest non-U.S. public companies based on revenues.
  • Forbes Top CEO's

Fortune Magazine

Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research
From the Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship, Babson College

Global Internet News Agency- Internet Wire

Glossary for Traders - (dead link)

Glossary of Antitrust Terms
By Charles E. Mueller
Antitrust Law & Economic Review, Vol. 26, No. 4

"Guide to the International Banking Statistics" [.pdf]
Bank for International Settlements

Harvard Business Review

Harvard Business School

  • Entrepreneurs - (dead link)
    "A video archive that captures insights from leading members of the School's entrepreneurial community. Entrepreneurs speak on a common set of themes including their development as entrepreneurs, strategies for identifying opportunity and leadership."

Herringtown - (dead link)
"...our comprehensive, searchable database of startups. Here, investors, Venture Capitalists, potential customers, strategic partners, suppliers and other technology professionals can search emerging companies, people, industries, and stage of funding directories at no cost. Content in Herringtown is provided by the companies themselves, many of which are at early stages of funding and can be found in no other listing on the Internet!"
From Red Herring magazine

Hispanic Business Magazine

Homeglossary.com
Real Estate Dictionary

Human Resource Development Quarterly - (dead link)

IndUS Business Journal
"...is the only newspaper that focuses on the business and cultural interests of the Indo- American community."

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

International Labour Organization (ILO)

  • ILO Databases - (dead link)
    Areas include: Country and Regional Info ; ILO Publications ; Labour Administration ; Labour Statistics ; Legal Info ; Occupational Safety ; Social Security ; Terminology ; Vocational Training and Rehabilitation ; World of Work.
    • ILOLEX - Database of International Labour Standards - (dead link)
      "...is a trilingual database containing ILO Conventions and Recommendations, ratification information, comments of the Committee of Experts and the Committee on Freedom of Association, representations, complaints, interpretations, General Surveys, and numerous related documents.
    • NATLEX Database
      "...is a continuously-updated database containing references to over 55,000 national laws on labour, social security, and related human rights, and over 300 laws in full text. Records and texts in NATLEX are in either English, French, or Spanish
  • Conditions of Work
    "...encourages and assists governments, employers' and workers' organizations to adopt policies and practices aimed at the progressive improvement of conditions of work and respect for workers' dignity. Some of the results of our work, standard-setting, research, advocacy, training and technical cooperation, are found in these pages."
  • Employment-Intensive Investment Programme (EIIP)
    "...concerned with developing coherent policy packages that combine investments targeted at the needs of the poor with appropriate social policies. This is the key to sustainable employment creation and lasting impact on poverty reduction."
  • Executive Summary: "Your Voice at Work."
     "...the first Global Report to be released under the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work. It examines trends in relation to respect shown for freedom of association and collective bargaining rights around the globe."
    Released 05/25/00
  • Government and Labour Law and Administration (GLLAD) - (dead link)
  • "HIV/AIDS: A Threat to Work, Productivity, and Development" - (dead link) [.pdf]
  • International Occupational Safety and Health Information Centre
  • International Labour Organization Central Library
    • Library and Information Services
    • A Guide to Sources of Labour Information - (dead link) Manual for libraries and information centres
      "The guide identifies core information resources in the field of labour, presents tools for the selection of useful material and gives details on how to obtain these core publications. It is a practical aid for ensuring that your library or information centre has the most important documents for your users...Core resources include ILO material, publications from international organisations, national publications, general reference works and periodicals."
  • Statistical Information & Monitoring Programme on Child Labour (SIMPOC)
     "SIMPOC aims to assist individual countries in generating comprehensive quantitative and qualitative data on child labour, at the national level..."
  • World Employment Report
    Life at Work in the Information Economy

International Labour Organization

InvestorWords
"With over 5,000 definitions and 15,000 links between related terms, InvestorWords is the most comprehensive financial glossary you'll find anywhere, online or off ."

Information Week - (dead link)

  • InfomationWeek 500
    "...analyzes and ranks the most innovative corporate users of information technology. Below you'll find research and analysis from the InfomationWeek 500 for past years, including the lists, stories, charts, our benchmarking tool, and more."

International Labour Organization

  • NATLEX Database
    "...is a continuously-updated database containing references to over 55,000 national laws on labour, social security, and related human rights, and over 300 laws in full text. Records and texts in NATLEX are in either English, French, or Spanish

Is it Any of Your Business? Consumer Information, Privacy, and the Financial Services Industry - (dead link)
"A March 23, 2000, public forum sponsored by the FDIC explored different perspectives on the privacy of consumer information, the perspective of the financial institution regulators on the issue, and the future of privacy law. Speakers included financial services industry leaders, consumer privacy experts, bank regulatory agency senior staff, and government leaders."
Includes videotapes and written transcripts of the sessions.

Islamic Banking and Finance: Another Approach
Revised version of a paper presented at the Islamic Hinterland Conference on Critical Debates Among Canadian Muslims, 3-5 September 1999, Toronto, Canada
by A.L.M. Abdul Gafoor

Managing Information [Internet version]
Includes: News updated daily ; Forum ; Chat ; Polls ; Competition ; Products and Services Directory.

Mexican Trademark and Copyright Law as it Applies to E-Commerce
LLRX.com Feature 03/19/2001 By Jose-Juan Mendez

Migration of Working Children in Nepal
Report from Migration and Employment Survey, 1995/96 data
By Bal Kumar K.C., Bhim Raj Suwal, Keshab Prasad Adhikari and Yogendra Bahadur Gurung
December, 1997

National Academy Press (free online versions)

  • Building a Workforce for the Information Economy
    Committee on Workforce Needs in Information Technology, Board on Testing and Assessment, Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy, Office of Scientific and Engineering Personnel, National Research Council, 2001.
  • Tuberculosis in the Workplace
    Marilyn J. Field, Editor, Committee on Regulating Occupational Exposure to Tuberculosis, Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, 2001.

National Association of Attorneys General

  • Microsoft Documents - (dead link)

NewsLinx: Daily Web News

Occupational Outlook Handbook - (dead link)

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development - (dead link)

  • Financial, Fiscal and Entreprise Affairs - (dead link)
    • Taxation and Fiscal Affairs - (dead link)
      • Tax Links - (dead link)
      • Taxations Aspects of Electronic Commerce - (dead link) Publication of reports and technical papers
        "This page brings together all the key documents to emerge from that work programme - on international direct tax issues, on consumption tax issues, and on tax administration issues. Several documents are being released with a specific invitation for public comment. Others are posted here for information, so as to provide an overview of the full span of the OECD's work on the various taxation issues.

Outsourcing News

Philosophy For Business (electronic journal)
"Philosophy for Business is a new e-journal from the International Society for Philosophers, looking at philosophical and ethical aspects of business practice.

Prime-Tass
"...is Russia's leading business news agency. Privately owned, the agency has no political affiliations, and is known for its objective coverage worldwide...produces over 100 news and analysis pieces daily."

Russell Sage Foundation Working Papers

  • "Gender Differences in Pay" [.pdf] - (dead link) By Blau, Francine D. and Lawrence M. Kahn

Scientific Institute for Environmental Management - (dead link)
Faculty of Economics & Econometrics, University of Amsterdam

  • Publications - (dead link)
  • "KPMG International Survey of Environmental Reporting 1999" - (dead link)

The Shareholder Action On-line Handbook - (dead link)

Singapore Business Times - (dead link)

Sloan Management Review

SSRN Electronic Library - (dead link) Abstracts and full-text papers from over 25 economics journals
Social Science Research Network

The Standard Europe
E-business News From The Industry Standard Europe

Stockmaster

Strategy & Business Quarterly

Target Marketing Magazine

TechInvestor: Investor's Newsroom - (dead link)

TechWire

U.S. Census Bureau

U.S. Department of Commerce

U.S. Department of Labor

  • Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy - (dead link)
    • The National Agriculture Workers Survey (NAWS) - (dead link)
      "Since the NAWS began surveying farmworkers in 1988, it has collected information from over 25,000 workers. The survey samples all crop farmworkers in three cycles each year in order to capture the seasonality of the work."
      • A Profile of U.S. Farmworkers - (dead link)
        Demographics, Household Composition, Income and Use of Services. U.S. Department of Labor, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy, Office of Program Economics, Research Report No. 6. April 1997.

U.S. Government Electronic Commerce Policy - (dead link)

  • Digital Economy 2000 - (dead link) [.pdf]
    3rd Annual Report of the Electronic Commerce Working Group

U.S. Trade Internet System
"Featuring United States Exports, Imports and Re-Exports of Agricultural, Fish, Forest, and Textile Products with the World!"
U.S. Foreign Agricultural Service, USDA

U.S. Trade Representative

  • Middle East and North Africa - (dead link)
    • U.S. - Jordan Free Trade Agreement - (dead link)

The Value Chain
Online publication from Industry Week

Vietnam Business Journal - (dead link)

Wall Street Journal Online
Some sections restricted to subscribers

Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

  • Financial Institutions Center - Working Papers - (dead link)

WSJ: Public site

The World Bank

Databases & Datasets
1Jump.com
1,000,000 Selected Companies, 50 Interlinked Content Databases
"Unlike conventional search engines or directories, which present you with a list of keyword matches, 1Jump takes you directly where you want to go, then provides critical, in-context business information once there."

Annual Reports Library

Chambers of Commerce - (dead link)
A worldwide directory

Competitive Intelligence (CI) E-Monitor - (dead link) "...provides you with pre-defined categories, keywords and syntax to make searching and finding the right information across a broad range of sectors faster and easier."
Industry Canada

Consortium for Research on Employee Benefits
 "The Consortium for Research on Employee Benefits is a collective, ongoing database of employee benefits research. The database consists of submitted research from academics and other employee benefit researchers, research supported through IFEBP's Grants for Research Program, synopses of research published in select employee benefits journals and links to other nonprofit or governmental employee benefits research. Research placed in the database covers 1990 to the present."
A service of International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans

Global Financial Data Home Page
 "This impressive collection of historical global financial data stretches from the years 1264 to 2000. While most of the actual data must be purchased, this Website does offer several free series, including Stock Markets since 1693, Interest Rates since 1700, and Inflation Rates since 1264. The site also contains a decent-sized collection of research papers written about the Eurodollar and a links page with financial Websites from around the world. [EM]"
From The Scout Report for Business & Economics [04/20/00], Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2000. http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/

Financial Data Finder

Harvard Business School - (dead link)

  • Baker Library - (dead link)
    • BakerBooks - (dead link) (new titles list and more)
    • Online Catalog
    • Baker Library Historical Collections - (dead link)
      • 19th Century American Trade Card - (dead link)
        "...cataloging and digitization of 1,000 trade cards that are representative of our collections and of the genre itself."
      • Unheard Voices: American Women in the Emerging Industrial and Business Age - (dead link)
        "A Survey of the Baker Manuscript Collections for the Role of Women in Business, 1700-1920."
        "The online guide that follows is the first of these research tools to be available to scholars, providing both information on the materials that were identified within the manuscript collections, as well as a bibliography of secondary resources."

Idealist
20,000 organizations in 140 countries. A project of Action Without Borders

The Internet Economy Indicators - (dead link) Biannual reports on the state of the Internet economy

IOMA Business Directory - (dead link)

ISO 9000 Database

Labor Art
"...a virtual museum designed to gather, identify and display examples of the cultural and artistic history of working people and to celebrate the trade union movement's contributions to that history."

Market Access Sectoral and Trade Barriers Database - (dead link) "The Sectoral and Trade Database may be queried by either a Country, a Sector or a Measure."
European Union

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development - (dead link)

  • International Regulations Database - (dead link)"The OECD International Regulation Database is a comprehensive and internationally-comparable set of information about the state of regulation and market structures in OECD countries. For each Member country, it contains over 1100 observations, both quantitative and qualitative."

Public Register's Annual Report Service

TRAC - IRS
"Comprehensive, independent, and nonpartisan information about IRS...The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) is a data gathering, data research and data distribution organization associated with Syracuse University."

United Kingdom Low Pay Commission

U.S. Census Bureau

U.S. Department of Commerce

U.S. Department of Labor

  • Bureau of International Labor Affairs - (dead link)
    • Publications & Reports (OIEA) - (dead link)
  • Bureau of Labor Statistics
    • Occupational Outlook Handbook
      "...is a nationally recognized source of career information, designed to provide valuable assistance to individuals making decisions about their future work lives. The Handbook is revised every two years.

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Working for America Institute
AFL-CIO

Workplace Issues Today (WIT) - (dead link)
"...was established in 1999 as a comprehensive news center where our faculty, students and interested public could go for the late breaking news on workplace issues."
Catherwood Library, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University

Miscellaneous
60 Days to Launch: The Anatomy of an Internet Startup
A documentary about mucho.com