Global Culture/Commerce
To meet the demands of our increasingly global economy and modern life, Bentley strives to provide students and faculty with an experiential understanding of international cultures and business practices.
We do so through world-class teaching and learning centers, innovative academic programs both here and abroad, and a growing record of faculty research and scholarship in the strategic domain of Global Commerce and Culture.
International Studies Department
Bentley offers America's only undergraduate degree in international studies that requires both a business studies minor and a study abroad experience.
Centers
Joseph M. Cronin International Center
The Cronin Center is responsible for all international endeavors and initiatives at Bentley, both within the university and for the Bentley community worldwide. Education Abroad prepares students to become active leaders in business and related professions in a global economy. Bentley offers 27 education-abroad partnerships in 16 countries worldwide. Bentley in Bahrain is a program making a Bentley education available to students in the Persian Gulf region through a partnership with the Bahrain Institute for Banking and Finance.
Center for Languages and International Collaboration
The CLIC offers live video and computer conferencing, a multimedia library of instructional materials for language and cultural learning, and access to international satellite broadcasting to enhance course curricula in Modern Languages and International Studies.
Center for Marketing Technology
The CMT is a "best practices" center for studying the forces that drive buying and selling in a global, networked economy.
CyberLaw Center
The center promotes research and teaching and serves as a clearinghouse for exploring myriad legal issues surrounding international business practices in a digital world.
Recent Research and Scholarship
2008 |
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| Alina M. Chircu | |
Conf. Paper : |
IT Entrepreneurial Strategies in Emerging Economies: Lessons from a Local Start-up |
Authors: |
Chircu, Alina; Chircu, Flavius |
| Gary C David | |
Journal Article : |
Undoing Degradation: The Attempted Rehumanization of Arab and Muslim Americans |
Authors: |
Gary David; Paul Jalbert |
Journal Article : |
Integrated Collaboration Across Distributed Sites: The Perils of Process and the Promise of Practice |
Authors: |
Gary David; Paul Jalbert |
| Samir Dayal | |
Journal Article : |
Professing Spirituality: Bollywood Fantasies and the Return of Religion |
| Linda Fiddler Edelman | |
Journal Article : |
Separated by a common language? Entrepreneurship research across the Atlantic |
Authors: |
Manolova, Tatiana; Edelman, Linda; Brush, Candida |
| Bonnie N. Field | |
Journal Article : |
Candidate Selection Procedures in Transitional Polities: A Research Note |
Authors: |
Field, Bonnie N; Siavelis, Peter M |
Book : |
Democracy and Institutional Development: Spain in Comparative Theoretical Perspective |
Authors: |
Field, Bonnie N; Siavelis, Peter M |
| Asbed Kotchikian | |
Other : |
Armenia under State of Emergency |
Other : |
Turkey in Iraq: Not over but out |
| Mark Oliver Lewis | |
Journal Article : |
Business Network Agility for Global Demand-Supply Synchronization: A Comparative Case Study in the Apparel Industry |
Authors: |
M. Lewis; R. Hornyak; R. Patnayakuni; A. Rai |
| Michael A. Quinn | |
Journal Article : |
Estimating the Impact of Migration and Remittances on Agricultural Technology |
| Balaji Sankaranarayanan | |
Journal Article : |
Critical Capabilities for IS Offshore Outsourcing |
Authors: |
Ranganathan, C; Balaji, S |
| Jahangir Sultan | |
Journal Article : |
The Effectiveness of Dynamic Hedging: Evidence from Selcted European Stock Index Futures |
Authors: |
Jahangir Sultan; Mohammad S. Hasan |
| Jane D Tchaicha | |
Presentation : |
Undoing the past, and Re-energizing the future of Language Studies in BusinessEducation |
| Hans J. Thamhain | |
Journal Article : |
Managing globally dispersed R&D teams |
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| William J Buchholz | |
Book Chapter : |
Chapter 7.12 Ontology |
| Priscilla A. Burnaby | |
Book : |
A Global Summary of the Common Body of Knowledge 2006 Preview Edition, pages |
Authors: |
Burnaby, Priscilla; Abdolmohammadi, Mohammad; Hass, Susan |
| Donald R. Chand | |
Conf. Paper : |
Exploring Formal and Informal Controls in Global IT Work |
Authors: |
Min Zhang; Donald Chand; Gary David |
Book Chapter : |
Does Exposure to Cross-Cultural Models lead to Stereotyping or Better Management of IT Work? |
Authors: |
Min Zhang; Donald Chand; Gary David |
| Gary C David | |
Journal Article : |
The Creation of Arab American: Political Activism and Ethnic (Dis)Unity |
Journal Article : |
An Analysis of Trust among Globally Distributed Teams in an Organizational Setting |
| Samir Dayal | |
Journal Article : |
Re-Positioning India: Tagore's Passionate Politics of 'Love.' |
Book Chapter : |
Subaltern Envy? Salman Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh |
| Joel Ian Deichmann | |
Journal Article : |
International Tourism from the Perspective of Czech Hospitality Professionals: A Pilot Study for Exploring Origin-Specific Stereotypes |
| Susan Dobscha | |
Conf. Paper : |
Challenges of Multiplicty in Interpretive Consumer Research: Multiple Members, Multiple Worldviews, Multiple Locations -- One Research Project? |
| Bonnie N. Field | |
Journal Article : |
Incorporating Spain into the Comparative Democratization Syllabus |
| Robert D Galliers | |
Journal Article : |
Vive les differences? Developing a profile of European Information Systems research as a basis for international comparisons |
Authors: |
Galliers, R. D; Whitley, E. A |
| Louis J. Iandoli | |
Journal Article : |
The Image of the Tuileries Palace in the French Press and Memoirs. 1871-1883 |
| William H. A. Johnson | |
Journal Article : |
Motivating proactive subsidiary innovation: Agent-based theory and socialization models in global R&D |
Authors: |
William HA Johnson; John W Medcof |
| Mark Oliver Lewis | |
Published Case Study : |
Value Creation through Supply ChainPartnerships: A Case Study of the UPS and HP Relationship |
Authors: |
M. Lewis; A. Rai; D. Forquer; D. Quinter |
| Tatiana S. Manolova | |
Journal Article : |
The differential effect of men and women entrepreneurs' human capital and networking on growth expectancies in Bulgaria |
Authors: |
Manolova, Tatiana S; Carter, Nancy M; Manev, Ivan M; Gyoshev, Bojidar S |
| Sean Michael McDonald | |
Journal Article : |
Information Communication Technology: Reform of organisational crisis management during natural disasters |
Authors: |
McDonald, Sean M; Sinha, Ranu |
| Tracy J. Noga | |
Journal Article : |
The inequity of U.S. Estate Tax Consequences for non-citizen spouses and expatriate and the impact of the proposed exit tax |
Authors: |
Wilkinson, Brett; Noga, Tracy |
Published Case Study : |
International Transfer Pricing at Marks Pharmaceuticals: A Tax and Financial Accounting Perspective |
Authors: |
Wilkinson, Brett; Noga, Tracy |
Published Case Study : |
International Consulting Income: An Investigation of the Tax Implications of a U.S. Individual Working in Canada |
Authors: |
Wilkinson, Brett; Noga, Tracy |
| Samuel W. Woolford | |
Journal Article : |
Measuring the International Digital Divide: An Application of Kohonen Self-Organizing Maps |
Authors: |
Deichmann, Joel I; Abdolreza, Eshghi; Haughton, Dominique; Sayek, Selin; Woolford, Sam |
| David J. Yates | |
Conf. Paper : |
How Open Source Software and Wireless Networks are Transforming Two Cultures: An Investigation in Urban North America and Rural Africa |
Authors: |
David J. Yates; Thomas McGonagle; Anas Tawileh |
