 |  International Business : The Challenge of Global Competition, 8/e Donald Ball
Wendell H. McCulloch,
California State University Long Beach
Paul L. Frantz,
California State University Long Beach
Michael Geringer,
California Polytechnic State University
Michael S. Minor,
University of Texas Pan American
Political Forces
Internet AssignmentsStudents: Included here are some internet/case assignments that you can use to review
or that your instructor may give as assignments. Your instructors have been
given the answers to these questions and may choose to give them out to you
or not.
This case is designed to:
- Acquaint you with information contained in the US Department of State Travel
Warnings and Consular Information Sheets;
- Allow you to focus on travel warnings of a particular country; and
- Place you in a position of having to make a decision about whether or not
to agree to go on a business trip in a location that is currently under a
travel warning advisory.
Increasingly, Americans traveling abroad have become the target for terrorist
activities. In line with this, Chapter 10 of your text lists the following seven
things that should be done to protect oneself from such activities before leaving
the home country:
- Get your personal and legal affairs in order.
- Except on a need-to-know basis, tell no one of your travel plans.
- Sanitize all documents and business identity.
- Check with your company and other companies to find someone who has conducted
business in the country you are going to.
- If your company does not already have an individual designated to coordinate
and monitor foreign trips, contact the appropriate management and see that
someone knows the where, when and how of your trip.
- Your company should have an established code for use by all its personnel
who are engaged in foreign business.
- Have your company acquire a telephone directory for the State Department
from the Government Printing Office.
These seven items may sound scary or even down right silly. However, they are
good advice for American's traveling abroad, especially in some countries.
In addition to heeding the seven items cited in the text, one should always consult
the US Department of State Travel Warnings ;amp; Consular Information Sheets found
at before traveling abroad:
http://travel.state.gov/travel_warnings.html#h
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Case Instructions:
Assume that you are in a mid-management position of a large US based company.
Your company is in the process of negotiating an important deal with a company
located in a country for which a travel advisory has been recently issued. Your
company wants you to visit the foreign company to complete the negotiations. You
are unsure about making the trip. If you do make the trip, your next promotion
is assured. If you decline to make the trip, your next promotion will be in jeopardy.
Answer the following questions:
- Go to the US Department of State Travel Warnings ;amp; Consular Information
Sheets site at http://travel.state.gov/travel_warnings.html#h
. Click on the "Current Travel Warnings and Public Announcements"
link. Choose one of the countries listed on the "Current Travel Warnings"
list. This will be the country that your company wants you to visit. What
country did you choose?
- Go back to the main page of the US Department of State Travel Warnings ;amp;
Consular Information Sheets at http://travel.state.gov/travel_warnings.html#h
. Locate the travel warning information about the country that you chose in
number 1. What does the travel warning advise Americans who are contemplating
travel to that country?
- Based on the information contained in the travel warning that you located
in number 2, would you make the trip? Why or why not? Fully explain.
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