Appendix B: Sample Cases from Case Study Sources

(compiled for Weir & Golich “Teaching About the Global Political Economy,” submitted to IPE Compendium)

GPE-Relevant Case Categories

*Note-Each organization has extensive case method material information

 

GUISD Pew Case Study Faculty Center
http://www12.georgetown.
edu/sfs/ecase/

KSG Public Policy & Management http://ksgcase.harvard.edu/

The Electronic Hallway https://hallway.org/

 

Harvard Business School

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/
hbsp/case_studies.jsp

Cost

*Note-All have free membership for instructors

Free to instructor

$3.50 for downloadable PDF

$5.00 for print copies

PDFs for instructors and students

$3.45 for cases, abridgements

$2.00 for sequels, epilogues

 

Free to instructor; instructor can provide to student for free through print or password protected PDF files

PDFs for instructors and students $3.95

Comparative Politics

236 Sexploitation?: Sex Tourism in Cuba M. Geske & M. Clancy

 

274 Oligarchs: Simulating Economic and Political Dynamics in Post-Communist Narkonia, J.A. Gould

 

1917.0

Vision Mumbai, J. Gomez-Ibanez

 

1842.0 The Mexican Government’s Retail Chain: Politics, Social Welfare, and the Bottom Line, J. Schlefer

 

Grassroots Assistance in Rural China, S.Y. Yamaguchi

 

What Did I Do Wrong? K. Itagaki

 

9-807-175 TA Energy (Turkey): A Bundle of International Partnerships, W. Kerr, D. Isenberg, & A. Bozkaya

 

308060 China in Africa: The Case of Sudan, R. Abrami & E. Ajambo

International Business Strategy

 

271 Intellectual Property Rights, Drug Access, and the Doha Round D.K. Elms

 

276 Saving the Coffee Industry in El Salvador R. Letovsky

 

1859.0

Same Bed, Different Dreams: The China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park (A), E. Scott (Ed.) & J. Thomas

 

1817.0

Singapore’s Public Enterprises, J. Gomez-Ibanez

 

Equity and Economic Efficiency in the Merger of Superior Propane and ICG Propane, No Author

Political Economy of Heavy Industrialization, Y. Horikane

 

508063 The International Finance Corporation's Grassroots Business Initiative, K.V. Rangan & K. Lee

 

399007 Jollibee Foods Corp. (A): International Expansion C. Bartlett & J. O’Connell

 

International Law and Organizations

 

266 The Rocky Road toward Debt Forgiveness,  J.A.K. Hey

 

284 Rolling Back Malaria by Nets: Do Public-Private Partnerships Work? K. Mori

984.0

Cleaning Up the Islands, J.D. Montgomery

 

1829.0

Financing the Theun-Hinboun Hydroelectric Project, H. Lee

 

Disagreements Behind an Agreement, M. Nakayama

Managing a NGO, S. Mayumi

Oxfam and Debt Relief Advocacy, M. Lindenberg

 

9-797-015 Chiquita Brands International (A) T. Mulligan, D.L. Spar

 

9-703-015 The World Trade Organization, D.A. Moss & M. Bartlett

North-South Relations

 

288 Polarization in Venezuela: The Battle Between Hugo Chavez and the Oppositioni, B.A. Nelson

 

293 It's Not Just the Economy, Stupid: Linking Free Trade and the War on Terror, D. Auerswald & C. Shaver

1825.0 Pakistani Textile Exports, Fast Track, and the US War on Terror: A Collision of Foreign and Trade Policy Goals, S. Rosegrant

 

1617.0

India: The Dabhol Power Corporation (A), S. Verma

 

Introducing the Quality Control to Uruguay: Will Japanese Management Be Accepted in Another Culture?, T. Sahara

Master Plan Will Not Be Wasted, Y. Yamaguchi

301089 Merck Global Health Initiatives (B): Botswana, J.E. Austin, D. Barrett, J.B. Weber

 

703050 India on the Move, R.H.K. Vietor & E.J. Thompson  

Ethics and International Affairs

 

219 To Trade or Not to Trade?: The Basel Convention and the Transboundary Movement and Disposal of Hazardous Wastes J.A. Bunn, Julie A. with D. Blaney

 

520 Shell in Nigeria: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Ogoni Crisis, B. Manby

1776.0

The Coffee Crisis, J. Gomez-Ibanez

 

1706.0

Shelter and Poverty Assistance in Nouakchott, S. Wahba

 

 

An Ethical Dilemma at the Cumbrian Cultural Endowment Foundation, T. Randma

Solid Waste Landfill Crisis, P. Obraniak

 

392032 Body Shop International, C.A. Bartlett, K.W. Elderkin, & K. McQuade

 

9-702-049 Life, Death, and Property Rights: The Pharmaceutical Industry Faces AIDS in Africa, N. Bartlett & D.L. Spar

Global Resources, Energy and Environment

 

154 The Ivory Trade K. Mingst

 

214 Sustainable Development or Environmental Imperialism? Guinea-Bissau and the Hazardous Waste Trade M.A. Montgomery

 

1380.0

Bolivia's Conservation Data Center: Coping with Crisis, C. Gutierrez & C. Letts

 

1827.0

Brazil Electricity Crisis, H. Lee & S. Tankha

 

A Partnership in Troubled Waters, H. D’Agnes

The Turbot War: Canada, Spain, and Conflict Over the North Atlantic Fishery, E. DeSombre & S. Barkin

9-303-055 Starbucks and Conservation International, J.E. Austin & C. Reavis

 

9-702-006 Yangcheng: AES in China, R.H.K. Vietor

Human Rights Issues & Development

289 Between Promise and Delivery: Relief and Reconstruction After the 2003 Iranian Earthquake,  J.S. Enia

 

290 A Helping Hand? Eliminating Child Labor in Bangladesh's Garment Industry,  D.K. Elms

1830.0

Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank, H. Husock

 

1805.0

The Social Construction of Gender: Microfinance and Fa’afafines in Samoa, R. Galang & S. Margolin

 

Taking Scallop Sales into Their Own Hands: How a Hokkaido Fishing Community Rose Above Poverty, M. Kawabe with S. Mori

Selecting Approaches for Development of the Communal Lands in Zimbabwe, N. Minato

R0209C Serving the World's Poor, Profitably, C.K. Prahalad & A. Hammond

 

9-700-047 Hitting the Wall: Nike and International Labor Practices, J. Burns & D. Spar