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Overseas Chinese as expatriate managers in China: is their recruitment a solution to cross-cultural management problems for multinationals operating in China?
Chung, Mona; Smith, Wendy - 2007
This paper examines the issue of diversity in Chinese identity and how it impacts on the operations of multinationals in China who recruit Overseas Chinese to handle cross-cultural issues. China’s rapid economic development and entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001 made her a...
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First Name Office Culture and Employee Behavior in Work Places
Ugwuzor, Miebi - 2016
Abstract The examination of the behavioural responses of the reciprocal first name exchange as a policy in firms in Nigeria was the main objective of this research. It was also the intent of this empirical work to highlight the challenges and issues of the transferability and applicability of...
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An investigation of the relationship between cultural competence and expatriate job performance
Kirkman, Bradley L. (contributor) - 2008
This dissertation investigates whether cultural competence, defined as a person’s ability to interact effectively with others from a different cultural background or in a cross-cultural setting, predicts expatriate adjustment and job performance more effectively than other individual-level...
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Boundary conditions to business relationships in China: The case of selling wine in China
Beverland, M - 2009
Purpose ? This paper aims to examine the role and limitations of relationships between buyers and sellers of grape wine in China. Although networks are believed to be critical for market entry in Confucian societies, they may also dampen the entrepreneurialism necessary to build a sustainable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009481841
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An Analysis of the Standardization and Global Localization on Cross-cultural Management from Communication and Source of Conflict Point of View
Yan, Foong Wei; Yazdanifard, Rashad - 2014
Cultural factor is recognized as a vital influence to communication as well as the key to success for a business. Cultural awareness helps organizational firm more efficient while behave cross-culturally to the international market. Meanwhile, the global business’s environment has become...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011315479
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GENERATION OF KNOWLEDGE INTO CONCEPTION OF CULTURAL PRAGMATIZM AND ITS INFLUENCE ON INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
SHENGELIA, Teimurz - 2016
To study the phenomenon of cultural difference and diversity and to establish its influence on efficiency of the international business is the most important problem. The present problem occupies a wide space in the theory and practice of management of the international companies. Within last...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011529225
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An Analysis of the Standardization and Global Localization on Cross-cultural Management from Communication and Source of Conflict Point of View
Yan, Foong Wei; Yazdanifard, Rashad - 2014
Cultural factor is recognized as a vital influence to communication as well as the key to success for a business. Cultural awareness helps organizational firm more efficient while behave cross-culturally to the international market. Meanwhile, the global business’s environment has become...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011531850
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The Diminishing Effect of Cultural Distance on Subsidiary Control
Wilkinson, Timothy J.; Peng, George Z.; Brouthers, Lance; … - 2008
This paper explores the diminishing influence of national cultural distance on two subsidiary control issues, expatriate staffing and parent company ownership level of the foreign subsidiary. Previous studies have produced conflicting findings: one stream of research argues that when cultural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009459056
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National geprägte Unternehmenskultur am Beispiel Schwedens
Werner, Eva Charlotte - 2009
Unternehmenskultur ist ein interdisziplinärer Begriff. Einerseits findet er Anwendung im Rahmen der … international tätigen Unternehmen anhaften kann: Es ist dies die nationale Prägung von Unternehmenskultur. Eine sich stellende Frage … ist, ob es objektiv feststellbare nationale Besonderheiten und Spezifika in der Unternehmenskultur gibt. In der …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467159
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Upgrading the System of Innovation in Late-Industrialising Countries -The Role of Transnational Corporations in Thailand's Manufacturing Sector
Martin Berger - 2005
The objective of this thesis is to investigate the potential contribution of transnational corporations (TNC) to the upgrading of systems of innovation in late-industrialising countries. This study looks specifically at TNC-affiliierter in Thailand’s manufacturing sector and compares them with...
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