Question

How have technology and internationalization affect business research?

Answer 1

Both technology and internationalization have affected business research in many ways. The big two are the amount of information available and the ease of accessing that information. Technology has not only allowed us the ease of searching out information but also collecting and recording much more information that we could previously in the past. Technology has also offered us the ability to work with others across the world all in real time through the internet. This ability to collaborate on an international level has brought forth many great ideas and findings that would previously be unknown or difficult to obtain. From personal experience, I have used sources from all over the world in my own research topic that I doubt I would have been able to read if I only had access to the print sources of old contained within libraries. The time to search out these sources has also been lessened dramatically with the ability to search out keywords or filter searches with ease that would not be possible with print references. This has not only made business research much more cost effective but also has reduced the amount of time required to obtain results. I feel much more companies would utilize research less if it was't for the ease of performing it in today's technological age.