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The interface of business and culture

Author: Michael B Hinner
Publisher: Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang, 2010.
Series: Freiberger Beiträge zur interkulturellen und Wirtschaftskommunikation, Bd. 7.
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Humans need to communicate in order to interact with one another, and culture helps regulate such interaction and communication. The same is true in the world of business since there, too, people interact and communicate with one another. And in today's globalized world, it is inevitable that many such encounters and interactions involve people of diverse cultural background. That is why it is so imperative that  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Michael B Hinner
ISBN: 9783631563397 3631563396
OCLC Number: 716215498
Description: 587 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Contents: Contents: Michael B. Hinner: General Introduction: The Influence of Stereotyping on Consumer Behavior - James W. Neuliep: A Contemporary Conceptualization of Ethnocentrism - Geert Hofstede: Business Goals and Corporate Governance - Erla S. Kirstjansdottir/Judith N. Martin: A Case Study in Intercultural Management Communication: Icelandic Managers and French, Spanish, and Indian Employees - Ming-Yi Wu: Managing Diversity in Higher Education in Response to Internationalization and Globalization: Implications for University Leaders - Vivian C. Sheer/Guo-Ming Chen: Performance Appraisal in Hong Kong Subsidiaries versus Their U.S. Parent Companies: Culture, Communication, and Appraisal Effectiveness - Yea-Wen Chen/Courtney Fletcher/John Oetzel: Updating Face Negotiation in Cross-Cultural Conflict through Examining Multilevel Influences on Culture - Kris Acheson: Navigating Silences in International Business Contexts - Edwin R. Mc Daniel: The Cultural Antecedents to Japanese and U.S. Negotiation Styles - Tadasu Todd lmahori: The Great Cultural Divide in International Business Communication: High and Low Context Communication - Sundae R. Bean: (Re)constructions of the Self & Others: Peeling Back Layers of Identity, Context, and Power in Intercultural Tourism Interactions - Carlos Valdez/Felipe Korzenny/Holly McGavock: Testing Key Hypotheses about U.S. Hispanic Consumer Behavior: Marketing-Assumptions or Reality? - Ling Chen: Traditional Chinese Value Orientations: Contemporary Manifestations of Indigenous Constructs - Ee Lin Lee/Bradford J. Hall: Cultural Ideals in Chinese Malaysians' Discourse of Dissatisfaction - Junhao Hong/Ho-Chun Li: Taiwan's TV Facing Transnational Media: The Battle between Indigenous Culture and Global Hybrid Culture - Shuhua Zhou/Jie Xu/Yinjiao Ye/Peiqin Zhou: Effect of Culture-Congruent Visuals on Affect, Perception, and Purchase Intention - A Comparison of U.S. and Chinese Viewers - Arun Vishwanath/Hao Chen: Communication Technology as an Extension of the Self in the U.S. and Germany: A Cross-Cultural Study Linking People's Associations with Technology to Their Symbolic Proximity with Others - Lucia Dura/Arvind Singhal/Eliana Elias: Listener as Producer: Minga Peru's Intercultural Radio Educative Project in the Peruvian Amazon - Juana Du: Factors Contributing to Cross-Cultural Adaptation of Mainland Students in Hong Kong: Testing a Dynamic Model - Hiromi Motozuka/Stella Ting-Toomey: Intercultural Adjustment Training: A Proposed Model and Sample Application Tool - Young Yun Kim: Intercultural Personhood: Globalization and a Way of Thinking.
Series Title: Freiberger Beiträge zur interkulturellen und Wirtschaftskommunikation, Bd. 7.
Responsibility: Michael B. Hinner (ed.).

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Humans need to communicate in order to interact with one another, and culture helps regulate such interaction and communication. In this book, the authors covers a various spectrum of topics that  Read more...
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