The assessments in this course are primarily based upon developing an effective International Business Plan to assist an Australian company with the decision to expand business operations into a new overseas location.
There are two assessment points in this course:
1. Assessment 1 - Business proposal
2. Assessment 2 - International business plan
This page has been created to help you find information you need for your assessments, including finding:
Remember: All citations must be in APA-7 referencing style. Please check the referencing style guide for more detail.
For full assessment details please refer to your course site.
The Library holds a range of databases (search tools) to help you find company, industry and country information.
Company information top picks | Industry information top picks | Country information top picks |
Ivybrook Farm's website | ||
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D&B Hoovers | Business Source Ultimate | OECD data |
Tip: Both Passport GMID and Business Source Ultimate country reports may discuss COVID-19.
Tip: You can also use this Library guide for country information.
To find industry information:
Industry reports include information such as:
To find industry reports type your industry within the main search box, e.g. wine, then select search.
You can also browse industries by selecting Industry research > Choose a country or global (e.g. US) > Select appropriate report.
For Australian Industry Reports, you can find associated Risk Ratings Reports.
To search for an industry profile, enter the name of the industry (e.g. chocolate) in the search box and click Search.
On the left hand side under Refine Results, select Source Types, (click Show More to see full range of sources):
And in the pop-up box, select Industry Profiles then hit the Update button.
Passport GMID example search:
Business Source Ultimate example search:
To do a search, try using
At the results list you can:
Refer to the following resource for more information on how to search the Library Collection.
Make sure you access Google Scholar from the library website. You will be able to link directly to articles that the Library has access to by clicking on the Full-text at UniSA link.
Watch the following to find out more:
Tips: You can limit your search to retrieve only peer-reviewed articles by ticking the scholarly/peer reviewed option. You can also limit your search by date range.
Now that your research is completed it is time to put all of your information together. Watch this short video (2 min 53 sec) for tips on how to write a report:
What do you do with all those references you have found? Use a bibliographic management software to store, organise and cite your references.
There are many free systems available. The Library supports the bibliographic management tool EndNote. For more information see the EndNote Guide.