MARCH 2007 Professor Romain Wacziarg Littlefield 214 Tel: (650) 723 6069 wacziarg@gsb.stanford.edu http://www.stanford.edu/~wacziarg Assistant: Chris Lion Littlefield 330 Tel: (650) 723 9040 lion_chris@gsb.stanford.edu POLECON 230 - NONMARKET STRATEGY This course addresses managerial issues in the social, political and legal environments of business. Cases and readings emphasize strategies to improve the performance of companies in light of their multiple constituencies, in both international
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this points to a discussion of whether Australia needs a bill of rights. The role of the courts also need to be evaluated with respect to the other branches of government, the legislature and the Executive, in an effort to attain a healthy balance between judicial independence and Parliamentary sovereignty for the people of Australia, and to bring to an end the ongoing debate of whether Australia really needs a bill of rights. To begin with, consider the Framework’s initiatives. The first objective
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action with regard to human resource policies and practices that address work/life balance. Work/life balance (WLB) is an important area of human resource management that is receiving increasing attention from government, researchers, management and employee representatives and the popular media (Pocock, van Wanrooy, Strazzari & Bridge, 2001; Russell & Bowman, 2000). WLB, from an employee perspective, is the maintenance of a balance between responsibilities at work
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Business Etiquette in China IMS 3310.006 Professor Zydorek Mahir Modgil Christian Kelly Saabiq Hossain Marlee Kargou Jose Moreno Jeremy Liu Matthew Liu Ever since China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001, the United States’ exports to China have increased more than 500 percent. In addition, according to Business NH Magazine, New Hampshire’s first statewide monthly business publication, the United States Government estimates that by 2020, China’s middle class will grow to
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- Negatives of clock time… o Although time is so fundamental that people in any culture regard their conception of it as simply an immutable part of reality, we will see that time is fundamentally a social construction that varies tremendously between and within societies. o Though perhaps useful for practical purposes, it is limiting (A very limited notion) for gaining a comprehensive understanding of time in organizational settings… too simple to understand organizational phenomena o The
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moral values. How do we regain our focus as individuals and organizations? This is the challenge for the employee and the employer. Ethics are fundamental standards of conduct by which we work as a professional. VALUES Values are individual in nature. Values are comprised of personal concepts of responsibility, entitlement and respect. Values are shaped by personal experience, may change over the span of a lifetime and may be influenced by lessons learned. Values may vary according to an
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Cataloging-in-Publication Data The handbook of negotiation and culture / edited by Michele J. Gelfand and Jeanne M. Brett. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 0-8047-4586-2 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Negotiation. 2. Conflict management. 3. Negotiation—Cross-cultural studies. 4. Conflict management—Cross-cultural studies. I. Gelfand, Michele J. II. Brett, Jeanne M. bf637.n4 h365 2004 302.3—dc22 2003025169 Typeset by TechBooks in 10.5/12 Bembo Original printing 2004 Last figure below indicates year of
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analysis builds on a three-category taxonomy of motivation, adding ‘‘hedonic’’ motivation to the traditional dichotomy of ‘‘extrinsic’’ and ‘‘intrinsic’’ motivation. It uses case studies gleaned from the literature to explore the interactive effects between the different motivators in two different types of knowledge-intensive organisations: professional bureaucracy and operating adhocracy. Findings – Within a professional bureaucracy, the social dilemma of knowledge sharing may be overcome through normative
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Constitution does not point clearly to the answer. While the Constitution’s text and the various Supreme Court cases interpreting this text suggest that the federal government has the exclusive power to enact and enforce the nation’s immigration laws, state and local authorities still play an important role in regulation of immigration because they shape the conditions of daily life for immigrants in their jurisdictions. This piece of writing will in the best possible way, clearly explain who between Congress
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landscape as also with identity conflicts have continued as distinctive components of the regional novel. As the introduction discusses, such developments are partly products of the socioeconomic milieu of the writers. In this concluding section, I return to that assertion and draw together some observations, discussions and arguments to offer my views on what might actually have gone into the making of the regional novel. Firstly, I review the major queries regarding the nature of the "region" and the
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