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Business information through Spain's Chambers of Commerce

Meeting business needs

Antonio Muñoz Cañavate

Facultad de Biblioteconomía y Documentación, Universidad de Extremadura, Spain, amunoz{at}alcazaba.unex.es

Pedro Hípola

Departamento de Biblioteconomía y Documentación, Facultad de Comunicación y Documentación, Universidad de Granada, Spain, phipola{at}ugr.es

From different public and private requirements, mechanisms have been set in action that allow for companies to obtain information in order to make decisions with a stronger foundation. This article is focused on the description of an entire information system for the business world, developed in the realm of the Chambers of Commerce of Spain, which has given rise to the creation of an authentic network of inter-chamber information. In Spain, the obligatory membership of businesses to the Chambers of Commerce in their geographic areas, and therefore the compulsory payment of member quotas, has traditionally generated some polemics, above all because many firms have not perceived a material usefulness of the services offered by these Chambers. Notwithstanding, the 85 Chambers currently existing in Spain, as well as the organization that coordinates them — the Upper Council or Consejo Superior de Cámaras de Comercio — and the company created expressly to commercialize information services online, Camerdata, have developed genuinely informative tools that cover a good part of the information demands that a business might claim, and these are described here.

Key Words: business information • Chamber of Commerce • Spain

Business Information Review, Vol. 25, No. 4, 224-229 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0266382108098866
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