One Approach to Formulating and Evaluating Student Work Groups in Legal Environment of Business Courses

The principal focus of this study is an investigation of whether students' grade point average (GPA) is a viable criterion for forming student work groups in the undergraduate Legal Environment of Business course. More specifically, the research focuses on the impact of: (1) GPA-homogeneous (HO) and GPA-heterogeneous (HE) groups upon student satisfaction with group processes and (2) the impact on individual student performance in both group and nongroup assignments. Data obtained from fourteen HE and fourteen HO student groups, in four separate Legal Environment of Business classes consisting of a mix of Management, Marketing, Computer Information Systems, International Business, Financial Services, and Accounting majors, generated a number of significant results. The most surprising observations dealt with the behavior of low achievers whose individual grades showed substantial improvement after working in HO groups. Researchers who are assessing pedagogical methods which serve to engage a student's active learning and motivation should find these results to be of interest. In addition, the beneficial impact on task and relationship behaviors observed in this study should provide solace or a sense of reward to the larger set of academicians, across disciplines, who attempt to impart realistic organizational skills to their classes.     

以营业为视角解释商法体系

营业概念在商法中具有支柱作用.营业之所以能够成为构建商法体系的脊梁,在于营业本身具有二重性,内部的二元性表现为外在的扩张性,使其能够具备横贯商法体系的资格.以营业为骨架,商法体系包含以下内容:营业组织、营业财产,营业行为(活动)、营业公开制度、专门的商事营业、营业救助与营业终止.营业标准的提出,至少具有解释学上的意义,更有助于理解商法的基本制度和基本理念.     

Contract Law in Common Law Countries: A Study in Divergence

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