Subject category:
Human Resource Management / Organisational Behaviour
Published by:
IESE Business School
Version: 29 September 2017
Length: 4 pages
Data source: Published sources
Abstract
This is part of a case series. 'The Grand Afroport' is a cross-cultural contextualization of Harvard University's Harborco exercise. The case can be used in the context of multicultural, multiparty negotiations. In this exercise, there are six parties involved: (1) The Grand Afroport, (2) the African Development Bank, (3) the African Union Commission for Infrastructure Development, (4) the Ministry of Labor of the Republic of Africania, (5) the Global Environmental Protection Group, and (6) the Association of African Harbors. They get together to decide whether The Grand Afroport consortium should be awarded a loan to construct a modern port in the east African country Africania.
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Abstract
This is part of a case series. 'The Grand Afroport' is a cross-cultural contextualization of Harvard University's Harborco exercise. The case can be used in the context of multicultural, multiparty negotiations. In this exercise, there are six parties involved: (1) The Grand Afroport, (2) the African Development Bank, (3) the African Union Commission for Infrastructure Development, (4) the Ministry of Labor of the Republic of Africania, (5) the Global Environmental Protection Group, and (6) the Association of African Harbors. They get together to decide whether The Grand Afroport consortium should be awarded a loan to construct a modern port in the east African country Africania.