GEC Scenario #55: German Joint Venture
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Your American company is exploring a possible joint venture with a German firm. As a technical manager in your firm’s R&D group, you have been invited to Berlin to give an in-depth presentation about a new technology that is central to the partnership, and is also one of your main areas of expertise. During the presentation, many of the audience members nod to signify understanding, and some even smile once or twice. Yet when you call for questions at the end of the presentation, the audience gives critical evaluations of your preliminary test results and recommends major changes to the technology. During a teleconference shortly after the presentation, your supervisor asks whether you think the partnership has any potential. How would you reply?
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Citation: Jesiek, B. K. and Woo, S. E. (Eds.). (2018). GEC Scenario #55: German Joint Venture. Retrieved from https://geec.info/gec55
License: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
| This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Nos. 1160455 and 1254323. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. We also acknowledge support for this work from Purdue's Center for Intercultural Learning, Mentorship, Assessment and Research (CILMAR). |
