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.

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Recent Research and Scholarship

2008
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
 
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
 
2007
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 Consulting Income: An Investigation of the Tax Implications of a U.S. Individual Working in Canada
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
 
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
 
2006
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