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Handling culture
Pannerden, Pieter J.M. van Nispen tot - In: Journal of Positive Management 2 (2011), pp. 59-74
concepts of culture, as well as values, cultural differences between states are discussed, illustrated by a practical example …
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Cultural differences across nations : A values perspective
Schwartz, S.H. - Tilburg University, Work and Organization Research Centre - 1994
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An empirical investigation of the impact of redistribution on leisure consumption in OECD countries
Guccio, Calogero; Mignosa, Anna - In: International Journal of Public Policy 10 (2014) 6, pp. 296-314
This paper provides an empirical investigation of the relationship between welfare expenditures and preferences for leisure consumption. The analysis is based on an unbalanced panel of 21 OECD countries and uses several fixed effects estimators to take into account cultural and social...
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Chinese and South Asian Conceptions of the Good Life and Personal Narratives
Bonn, Gregory; Tafarodi, Romin - In: Journal of Happiness Studies 15 (2014) 4, pp. 741-755
Are cultural visions of a good life reflected in how people narrate the personal past? Do they tend to emphasize experiences that correspond to their cultural commitments about what is important and worthwhile in the life they are hoping to live? To examine this possibility, Chinese and South...
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Returns to education and annual income gaps updated in Israel: a quantile regression approach
Changqing, Xu - In: International Journal of Sustainable Economy 5 (2013) 1, pp. 76-103
The study intends to provide some updated empirical evidences on Israel education returns through quantile regression based on the cross-section individual survey data collected in 2009. We analyse gender and ethnicity differentials in the returns to education by using the standard Mincerian...
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Country specific customisation of smart phones for emerging markets: insights from case studies in Iran and Turkey
Aryana, Bijan; Boks, Casper - In: International Journal of Logistics Economics and … 4 (2012) 3, pp. 179-196
Customisation can be placed in different phases of a product lifecycle and even during the use of a product. Effects of cultural differences and country specific characteristics on use of products and consequently country specific customisation are interesting from different perspectives such as...
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Service quality, image and loyalty towards Malaysian hotels
Cham, Tat-Huei; Easvaralingam, Yalini - In: International Journal of Services, Economics and Management 4 (2012) 4, pp. 267-281
The rapid growth of the hotel industry in the first decade of the 21st century forced hotel operators to critically acknowledge the importance of service improvement in order to gain competitive advantage. Therefore, identifying the factors that influence the quality of services of hotels is...
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A note on dire need of harmonisation of cosmetic legislation
Shweta, Kapoor; Swarnlata, Saraf - In: International Journal of Trade and Global Markets 1 (2008) 4, pp. 419-431
Current Cosmetic regulatory frameworks reflect cultural differences between markets as well as legislative traditions. Differences in regulatory frameworks imposed barrier in innovations and reduces market size of cosmetic product, which led to significant economic loss. This paper enlightened...
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Perceptions of entrepreneurial personality traits: evidence from Greece
Tsoukatos, Evangelos - In: World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 10 (2014) 2/3, pp. 179-196
students in Greece and was undertaken under the lights of respondents' gender and culture. A quantitative survey methodology …
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A Critical Approach to Hofstede’s Model on Cultural Dimensions
Catalin, Ploae - In: Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series XII (2012) 1, pp. 644-649
aspects of culture, from management to educational settings. Based on his research from the beginning of 1970, Geert Hofstede … created a new paradigm for the study of cultural differences, meaning a model of national culture on four dimensions, later … existing models of national culture represents the way in which cross-cultural research is offered the possibility to advance …
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