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Bus 201: Legal Environment For Business Oer Curation, Erica L. Schiller, Matt Ruen
Bus 201: Legal Environment For Business Oer Curation, Erica L. Schiller, Matt Ruen
Curated OER Collections
This OER curation is an annotated bibliography of prospective OER for the GVSU course BUS 201: Legal Environment for Business.
The Impact Of Culture On Business Negotiations, Nadia L. Gonzalez
The Impact Of Culture On Business Negotiations, Nadia L. Gonzalez
Honors Projects
Understanding the impact of culture and cultural differences is essential in negotiations. Using both Hofstede’s cultural dimensions theory and the GLOBE Project’s nine cultural dimensions, this paper highlights the impact of culture in international business negotiations. After discussing the dimensions and various national attributes attributed to these dimensions, this paper highlights several important cultural strategies for firms to keep in mind when negotiating. It concludes with propositions and a discussion about how negotiators can improve their skills through an understanding and respect of cultural differences.
Improving The M&A Success Rate: Identity May Be The Key, Carol M. Sanchez, Mahendra Joshi, Paul Mudde
Improving The M&A Success Rate: Identity May Be The Key, Carol M. Sanchez, Mahendra Joshi, Paul Mudde
Peer Reviewed Articles
Every year companies spend over $4 trillion on mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in spite of the fact that between 70% to 90% of these M&As fail. Both practitioners and scholars are puzzled by these intriguing statistic and have tried to identify the causes of M&A failures. Factors such as inaccurate assessment of financial and operational synergies, lack of clarity in the execution of the integration process, negotiation errors, lack of backup plans, and cultural issues are only a few of the long list of reasons that may lead to such high rate of failure. Evidently, some of these factors have …
Finding My Future: Defining The Landscape, Discovering The Path, Samantha Frankhouse
Finding My Future: Defining The Landscape, Discovering The Path, Samantha Frankhouse
Honors Projects
One of the most pivotal moments in a young adult's life is transitioning from high school to pose-secondary opportunity; whether this is to university, trade school, or right into the workforce, each student has a unique experience. Finding My Future, a local startup in Grand Rapids, Michigan, wants to give these students "the tools they need to define a future they'll love." However, as a startup that is also on a quest to be educated and informed on their decisions, FMF is in need of marker research and customer discovery to better understand and appropriately design for their audiences.