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 college 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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| 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 |
| Asbed Kotchikian | |
Other : |
Armenia under State of Emergency |
Other : |
Turkey in Iraq: Not over but out |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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| Nader Asgary | |
Journal Article : |
A Microeconometric Approach to the Incentive Effect of Shortage on Fertility |
Authors: |
Asgary Nader; Mokhtari Mitch |
| Priscilla A. Burnaby | |
Journal Article : |
A Survey of Internal Auditors to Establish the Scope of the Common Body of Knowledge Study in 2006 |
Authors: |
Burnaby, Priscilla; Hass, Susan; Abdolmohammadi, Mohammad |
Journal Article : |
The Americas' Literature on Expanded Scope of Internal Auditing |
Authors: |
Burnaby, Priscilla; Hass, Susan; Abdolmohammadi, Mohammad |
Presentation : |
Ten Steps to Enterprise Risk Management |
Authors: |
Burnaby, Priscilla; Hass, Susan; Abdolmohammadi, Mohammad |
| Alina Maria Chircu | |
Journal Article : |
Managing Electronic Commerce Transaction Costs for Customer Value |
Authors: |
Chircu, A. M; Mahajan, V |
| Joel Ian Deichmann | |
Journal Article : |
Understanding Eurasian Convergence: Application of Kohonen Self-Organizing Maps |
Authors: |
Joel I. Deichmann; Abdolreza Eshghi; Dominique Haughton; Selin Sayek; Nicholas Teebagy; Heikki Topi |
| Bonnie N. Field | |
Journal Article : |
Transition Modes and Post-transition Inter-party Politics: Evidence from Spain (1977-82) and Argentina (1983-89) |
Journal Article : |
Transitions to Democracy and Internal Party Rules: Spain in Comparative Perspective |
| Dominique M Haughton | |
Journal Article : |
Shifts in living standards: the case of Vietnamese households 1992-1998 |
Authors: |
Haughton, Dominique; Loan, Le Thi Thanh |
Journal Article : |
Determinants of the international digital divide: an analysis using MARS |
Authors: |
Haughton, Dominique; Loan, Le Thi Thanh |
| Alan N. Hoffman | |
Published Case Study : |
Whole Foods Markets: Will There Be Enough Organic Food to Satisfy Demand? |
Authors: |
Patty Harasta; Alan N. Hoffman |
| Louis J. Iandoli | |
Journal Article : |
The Palace of the Tuileries and its Demolition: An analysis of the years 1870-1883 |
Presentation : |
The Industrialization and Popularization of Objets d'Art in the Second Empire |
Presentation : |
Le Retentissement aux Etats-Unis du projet de reconstruction des Tuileries, (The Reaction in the United States to the Reconstruction of the Tuileries |
| Anthony E. Kiszewski | |
Journal Article : |
Efficacy of resmethrin aerosols applied from the road for suppressing Culex vectors of West Nile Virus |
Authors: |
Reddy MR; Spielman A; Lepore TJ; Henley D; Kiszewski AE; Reiter P |
| Yuan Li | |
Journal Article : |
Native Countries as Language-Learning Environments |
| Jeffrey Alan Livingston | |
Book Chapter : |
Decentralization in Uganda |
Authors: |
Jeffrey A Livingston; Omar Azfar; Patrick Meagher |
| Tatiana S. Manolova | |
Journal Article : |
Breaking the family and friends' circle: Predictors of external financing usage among men and women entrepreneurs in a transitional economy |
Authors: |
Manolova, Tatiana S; Manev, Ivan M; Carter, Nancy M; Gyoshev, Bojidar S |
| Irvin W. Morgan | |
Journal Article : |
The Effect of Volatility on Commercial Lending Pricing |
Authors: |
Irvin W. Morgan Jr; N. L. Larrymore |
| Tracy J. Noga | |
Journal Article : |
Excluding Expatriates' Foreign Earned Income: New Developments |
Authors: |
Noga, Tracy; Wilkinson, Brett |
| Aaron J. Nurick | |
Book Chapter : |
Developing Multinational Project Teams |
Authors: |
Aaron J. Nurick; Hans J. Thamhain |
| Michael A. Quinn | |
Journal Article : |
Relative Deprivation, Wage Differentials and Mexican Migration |
| Anne Warfield Rawls | |
Book : |
Seeing Sociologically |
Authors: |
Garfinkel, Harold; Rawls, Anne Warfield, Editor |
Journal Article : |
Accountably Other: Trust, Reciprocity and Exclusion in a Context of Situated Practice |
Authors: |
Garfinkel, Harold; Rawls, Anne Warfield, Editor |
| Jeffrey C. Shuman | |
Presentation : |
Collaboratin to Win: Delivering Results Together |
Authors: |
Shuman, Jeffrey; Twombly, Janice |
Presentation : |
Collaborate to Win - Using Metrics to Grow Alliance Capability within a Sales Force |
Authors: |
Shuman, Jeffrey; Twombly, Janice |
| Jane D Tchaicha | |
Journal Article : |
Empowering Technologies, Empowered Women, the Case of Morocco and Tunisia |
| Cyrus Richard Veeser | |
Book Review : |
Book review |
| Poh-Lin Yeoh | |
Conf. Paper : |
The Role of Absorptive Capacity and Knowledge Internalization in Sourcing Performance: A Supplier's Perspective |
Conf. Paper : |
Understanding the Antecedents and Outcomes from Potential and Realized Absorptive Capacity |
