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The social life of the tortilla: Food, cultural politics, and contested commodification

Lind, David; Barham, Elizabeth - In: Agriculture and Human Values 21 (2004) 1, pp. 47-60

economy/culture and production/consumption.Commodities and commodification represent acontentious convergence of economic …

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APPORTS DE L'ETHNICITE A LA CULTURE EN SCIENCES DE GESTION

Joannides, Vassili - HAL - 2011

modèle penta dimensionnel développé par Hofstede (1980, 2001) pour appréhender la culture culturelle. Ces trois critiques …

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Post-Hofstede diversity/cultural studies: what contributions to accounting knowledge?

Joannides, Vassili; Berland, Nicolas; Wickramasinghe, D. T. - HAL - 2010

Since Hofstede published his book, The consequences of culture, numerous comparative studies have flourished and built …, we selected all papers published by international accounting journals in 2009 and dealing with culture or diversity. In … have in common that they make culture part of the social environment in which an accounting situation is observed. This …

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Dialects, Cultural Identity, and Economic Exchange

Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lameli, Alfred; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

We investigate whether time-persistent cultural borders impede economic exchange across regions of the same country. To measure cultural differences we evaluate, for the first time in economics, linguistic micro-data about phonological and grammatical features of German dialects. These data are...

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NEGOTIATING IN A GLOBAL BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT

PARASCHIV, Dorel; BELU, Mihaela - In: Revista Economica 48 (2009) 6, pp. 9-22

Negotiating in International Business become more complex due to the rapid development of the globalization process and to the evolution of communication tools. Companies are attracted by favorable key locations in view of lowering production costs and increasing profit margins. Such...

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Applicability of the SECI model of knowledge creation in Russian cultural context: Theoretical analysis

Andreeva, Tatiana E.; Ikhilchik, Irina A. - Graduate School of Management, St. Petersburg State … - 2009

While the potential infl uence of national culture on the effi ciency of knowledge management interventions has been … related processes we use infl uenced by culture? SECI model proposed by Nonaka and Takeuchi is very infl uential in knowledge …

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Social Capital and Political Accountability

Nannicini, Tommaso; Stella, Andrea; Tabellini, Guido; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

In this paper, we empirically investigate a channel through which social capital may improve economic wellbeing and the functioning of institutions: political accountability. The main idea is that voters who share norms of generalized morality demand higher standards of behavior on their elected...

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Approaches to learning accounting: a cross-cultural study

Donald, John; Jackling, Beverley - In: Asian Review of Accounting 15 (2007) December, pp. 100-121

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between the cultural background of students and their learning approaches in a first year undergraduate accounting program. Design/methodology/approach – While prior research in this area has more generally focused on the...

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The importance in accounting of ambiguity tolerance at the national level: Evidence from Australia and China

Harding, Noel; Ren, Mingchuan - In: Asian Review of Accounting 15 (2007) June, pp. 6-24

Purpose – The aim of the research is to examine potential differences in the levels of ambiguity tolerance between Australian and Chinese accountants at the national, rather than individual, level. Design/methodology/approach – Ambiguity tolerance levels of final year accounting students...

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Does Culture Matter?

Fernández, Raquel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

This paper reviews the literature on culture and economics, focusing primarily on the epidemiological approach. The … effect of culture from the original economic and institutional environment. This approach has been used to study a variety of …

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