Yuanyuan Google and Government of China A Case Study in Cross-Culture Negotiations 1. Who are the stakeholders in this case? * The owner, the shareholders and the employees of Google * The internet users * The biggest rival of engine market Baidu and other enterprises * The China government 2. What are the important issues for each set of stakeholders? * For Google itself: Google employees will be unable to work in China; This was also reflected in the stock
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Search query issue…………………………………………………….8 4. Implications….…………………………………………………………….9 5. Evaluation….……………………………………………………………..10 6. Conclusion……….……………………………………………………….10 7. References………………………………………………………………..11 1. Introduction China has always been and still the attraction of a potentially profitable market to many international firms from around the glob duo to its world biggest population that accounts for 1.3billion (2011 est, CIA the world factbook). As such, Google the world’s
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and China Negotiations MGMT583N-Negotiation Research Paper Cathy Zhang Google have experienced two series of negotiations with the Chinese Government from 2006 to 2010. The first round negotiation settled successfully when Google first entered China in 2006. Google established a local domain (google.cn) to better serve the mainland China Internet users when it failed to acquire a stake in the Chinese top search engine company Baidu. However, in January 2010, David Drummond, Google’s Senior
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Comment on the legal and regulatory environment in China and its implications for the chinese media. In light of the restrictions imposed by the Chinese government of internet access, how do you think the media industry is affected? On google agreeing to ensure its search content, Reporters without borders commented, “Google’s statement about respecting online privacy are the height of hypocrisy in view of its strategy in China.” However, Google’s Director of Research was of the view, “What’s important
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Case Study Analysis Template Analyst’s Name: ¶ Levi Mohorich Date: ¶ 2/23/14 Case Study Name: ¶ Google, Inc., in China I. The Pre-Analysis: A. Perspective: 1. Author’s Perspective. Describe the perspective of the author(s) of the case study and possible biases of the author(s): ¶ The case was wrote by Kirsten E. Martin, the Assistant Professor of Business Administration at George Washington University, School of Business. She has her Ph.D. from
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their scheduled departure. The seasoned team had been briefed on Chinese culture throughout the past two weeks by a special consultant retained for the negotiations. They had also been provided with an executive summary of press coverage on China and China’s most recent policy announcements regarding the Internet. The flight across the Pacific would give the executives valuable time to prepare for the negotiations concerning the acquisition of a Chinese domain name for Google and to reflect
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Google has provided its service since 2000, in a version that is available in the Chinese language to the people of China. The Chinese government blocked Google’s Chinese version of its service, which made the greatest part of their services inaccessible to the people of China. In an effort to provide the service to all people worldwide, Google made the decision to locate an office in China that would introduce their Google.cn to the Chinese people. While Americans take for granted their freedom
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“Google-ing” China: An ethical analysis of Google’s censorship activities in the People’s Republic by Leonard T. Musielak Introduction The spread of the internet to all corners of the world has led to tremendous business opportunities for many American businesses. With these opportunities may also come many ethical dilemmas. When operating abroad, businesses are required to abide by the laws of the host country. For US companies operating in China and other countries with totalitarian regimes
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differentiating factor was Google’s “PageRank technology which displays results…by looking for keywords inside web pages, but also gauging the importance of a search result based on the number and popularity of other sites that linked to the page” (Deresky, 2011). The use of Google has always been free to the user, the two revenue-generating avenues that have made Google one of the most profitable companies of the last decade is advertising and selling its technology. Google’s advertising branch is
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For Google in 2005, from a business perspective, what are the arguments for and against entering China? The decision of whether to censor data in exchange for access to a multi-billion dollar market or to maintain a level of international integrity was a dilemma Google faced with their opportunity to enter the Chinese market in 2005. Two years after their inception in 1998, Google had enjoyed positive growth leading to them owning 25% of market share in the Internet search market; once search
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