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115H, College of Business - University of Central Arkansas - 201 Donaghey Ave. Conway, AR Issue: 824 – July 1st, 2014
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“No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.” - Hosea Ballou
Upcoming Conferences Who: Atlantic Marketing Association
AMA
Where: Asheville, NC
What: 2014 Annual Conference When: September 25-27, 2014
AA
IEDC
AA
SBI
Who: Allied Academies
When: July 21-25, 2014
What: Summer International Internet Conference
Where: Online
Who: International Economic Development Council
When: October 19-22, 2014 Where: Fort Worth, TX
What: IEDC Annual Conference
Who: Allied Academies
When: October 15-17, 2014
What: Fall International Conference
Where: Las Vegas, NV
Who: Small Business Institute
When: February 12-15, 2015
What: 39th Annual Academic Conference
Where: St. Pete Beach, Florida
Announcements SBANC
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ISBE
ICSB
ASBE
The Small Business Advancement National Center aims at increasing your knowledge of small business and entrepreneurship. All questions and comments are greatly appreciated.
The International Economic Development Council is offering an Economic Development Credit Analysis training course on August 6-8, 2014 in Denver, Colorado.
The Haydn Green Institute at Nottingham University in partnership with the Institute of Small Business & Entrepreneurship (ISBE) is inviting people to attend a Paper Development workshop that will take place on September 18, 2014 at Nottingham University, Nottingham, The Mentoring Institute at the University of New Mexico is accepting proposals for its seventh annual Mentoring Conference. The 2014 conference will be held on Tuesday, October 21 through Friday, October 24 in Albuquerque, NM, at the Student Union Building, UNM. The Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship is having their 2014 ASBE Conference September 24-26, 2014, at the Doubletree Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee.
Call for Papers WBI
WBI
ICEHM
Who: World Business Institute
When: December 8-9, 2014
What: World Business, Finance & Management Conference
Where: Auckland, New Zealand
Who: World Business Institute
When: December 15-16, 2014
Deadline: November 24, 2014
What: Annual Tokyo Business Re- Where: Tokyo, Japan search Conference Deadline: October 31, 2014
Who: Int’l Centre of Economics, Humanities and Management What: ICMBM 2014 Conference
When: October 1-2, 2014 Where: Phuket, Thailand Deadline: August 1, 2014
Who: International Advisory Board When: February 19-20, 2014
IAB
What: 15th Int’l Conference on Knowledge, Culture and Change
Where: Berkeley, California Deadline: July 17, 2014
Tip
of the Week
“Businesses may need to adjust their data collection methods for primary research in other countries, because some methods do not easily transfer across national frontiers.”
Conducting International Market Research As corporations expand globally, they need to correspondingly gather more knowledge about customers in other countries. Although marketing researchers follow the same basic steps for international studies as for domestic ones, they often face some very different challenges. U.S. organizations can tap many secondary resources as they research global markets. One major information source is the U.S. Government, which offers a wealth of information through its dedicated website, Export.gov. Here, marketers can find marketing research, business leads, and other data on international trade and intellectual property protection drawn from sources across the U.S. government. The site’s trove of international marketing research is organized by country (more than
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130 nations) and by industry (more than 110 business sectors). Personalized counseling and customized research are available (the latter for a fee), as well as guidance on improving international business strategy, targeting markets overseas, evaluating international business partners, and increasing brand awareness around the world. U.S. trade show organizers can help get attracting foreign visitors. When conducting international studies, companies must be prepared to deal with both language issues— communicating their message in the most effective way—and cultural issues, or capturing local citizens’ interests while avoiding missteps that could unintentionally offend them. Companies also need to take a good look at a country’s business environment, including political and economic
conditions, trade regulations affecting research studies and data collection, and the potential for short– and long-term growth. Many marketers recommend tapping local researchers to investigate foreign markets. Businesses may need to adjust their data collection methods for primary research in other countries, because some methods do not easily transfer across national frontiers. Face-to-face interviewing, for instance, remains the most common method for conducting primary research outside the United States.
Feature Paper
SBANC Staff
Online Connectivity and The Evolution of
Executive Director
Business Organization: Three Waves
Dr. Don B. Bradley III
Development Intern Abstract
James Vire
Recent historical studies of major changes in economic structures conclude that such changes do not occur as single events, but as a series of developments, often called waves, that occur over an extended period of time. The emergence and subsequent development of online connectivity and the changes in business practices that have been driven by that emergence and development are, it is argued, one such major change in economic structures. This paper explores the phenomenon and identifies three distinct waves that have occurred to date in the evolution of economic structures driven by the spread of worldwide electronic connectivity.
Development Intern Daniel Champion
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ference Gary P. Schneider Page 15 - 20
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