Engaging Chambers of Commerce: Connecting Business Law Students with Local Business Professionals

This paper is largely based on the experience of teaching law to students with non-legal background in business schools, with a focus on internationalisation and the large class lecture format. Business schools often consist of large classes which include a significant proportion of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CaLD) students. Teaching a difficult and demanding subject to a large cohort of students from increasingly diverse backgrounds can be an onerous task. The existence of these conditions present different teaching challenges and requires a re-examination of teachers’ approaches to student learning. In this article, the experience of teaching law in business schools is approached through an examination of the challenges and problems arising from (a) teaching law to non-law students (b) teaching CaLD students (c) teaching large classes. At each stage, the writers explore effective solutions and strategies to deal with these issues.

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Local Business Voice and the Chambers of Commerce

Local Business Voice ◽

10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199584734.003.0001 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 2-11

Author(s):

Robert J. Bennett

Keyword(s):

Local Business ◽

Chambers Of Commerce

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The Logic of Local Business Associations: an Analysis of Voluntary Chambers of Commerce

Journal of Public Policy ◽

10.1017/s0143814x00010047 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 15 (3) ◽

pp. 251-279 ◽

Cited By ~ 31

Author(s):

Robert J. Bennett

Keyword(s):

Collective Action ◽

Costs And Benefits ◽

Business Associations ◽

Business Services ◽

Flat Rate ◽

Local Business ◽

Chambers Of Commerce ◽

Collective Goods ◽

The Uk ◽

Access Services

ABSTRACTThis paper seeks to assess how far local business organisations, such as Chambers of Commerce, are maintained chiefly by the factors hypothesised by Mancur Olson as the forces being behind collective action: the costs and benefits of business services. The paper reviews the theoretical arguments to support this hypothesis and then assesses the case of UK Chambers of Commerce using empirical evidence from surveys of businesses and Chambers. The UK Chambers are a purely private law voluntary structure, unlike many European counterparts. The analysis demonstrates that in such a system the overwhelming motive for business membership is to access services with specific rather than collective benefits. In turn Chamber managers tend to respond by financing services chiefly through service fees rather than flat rate subscriptions. In an Olsonian world with purely voluntary Chambers, few businesses will pay for general collective goods (such as lobbying, representation or support to government) that others can consume at no cost. The paper also demonstrates strong differences between types of Chambers: large Chambers being largely service and fee oriented, small Chambers being more often collective action bodies. Overall, however, local Chambers have features common to other business organisations of being variable in size and resources, most are small, and the structure is fragmented. Conclusions are drawn from these findings for government policy.

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Comparison of College Faculty and Business Professionals as Evaluators of Student Business Letters

Business and Professional Communication Quarterly ◽

10.1177/23294906211008150 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 232949062110081

Author(s):

Donald N. Stengel ◽

Jacquelin J. Curry

Keyword(s):

Business Communication ◽

College Faculty ◽

Business Professionals ◽

Communication Course ◽

Local Business ◽

Business Professional

This article reports on assessments of business letters assigned to students in a business communication course. Assessments were performed by faculty in other disciplines and local business professionals, with each sampled assignment evaluated by one faculty and one business professional. Overall, the assessments by the two groups were similar in terms of evaluation items related to quality of content and organization. However, faculty evaluators rated the letters lower on items related to mechanics, while business professional evaluators rated the letters lower on items related to professionalism. The paired assessments revealed only limited consistency between the two evaluator groups.

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Business Students' Perspective of Learning Law Education

Studies of Applied Economics ◽

10.25115/eea.v39i10.5407 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 39 (10) ◽

Author(s):

Hanna Ambaras Khan

Keyword(s):

Teaching Methods ◽

Qualitative Method ◽

Business Students ◽

Law Students ◽

Learning Activities ◽

Good Teaching ◽

Business Law ◽

Teaching Plan ◽

The Subject ◽

Learning Law

Law education is a must subject in many courses due to its importance. However, law is perceived as a complicated subject and consumes much time, particularly for non-law students who do not aim to study law throughout their course registration. Indeed, law education is a dull topic since it is usually taught in a conventional style. School of Business and Economics, Universiti Putra Malaysia, has offered one law subject to the business students, "Business Law". It was realized that most of the students enrolled in that course faced difficulty in learning law education. This paper aims to study the business students' experience of learning law and propose effective teaching methods to ensure that legal topics are taught more acceptably. This paper adopts a qualitative method in collecting data where three surveys and two short interviews were conducted. It was found that the students have found this law subject complicated. Still, they liked the subject and agreed to learn it with some appropriate learning activities. Thus, something must be done to contest these views and change students' perspective on legal courses. This subject needs to be taught in a manner acceptable to attract the students' attention and interest. During the Covid-19 pandemic, all learning activities are conducted through the online platform. Therefore, the lecturer must have a good teaching plan to ensure that students can learn and enjoy law.

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