By Frederik Balfour Guanxi. It’s the first word any businessperson learns upon arriving in China. Loosely translated‚ guanxi means "connections" and‚ as any China veteran will tell you‚ it is the key to everything: securing a business license‚ landing a distribution deal‚ even finding that coveted colonial villa in Shanghai. Fortunes have been made and lost based on whether the seeker has good or bad guanxi‚ and in most cases a positive outcome has meant knowing the right government official‚ a relationship
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of people always use five fundamental taste elements when they’re cooking. For Vietnamese people‚ salt is used as the connection between the worlds of the living and the dead. Cooking and eating play an extremely important role in Vietnamese culture. The word ăn (eat) is included in a great number of proverbs and has a large range of semantic extensions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_cuisine#Cultural_importance Vietnamese cuisine is reflective of the Vietnamese lifestyle from the
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teaching‚ we are not only taught the Mother Tongue but also we are taught the culture of that nation. Cultural and language are closely related‚ inseparable. Language is a mean of culture transportation and culture contained in language. It has been said and written that language is the crystallization of national culture‚ through language and texts‚ culture values are handed down. In the future‚ thanks to language‚ culture will have chances to have development. The transformation and development of
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DBF 107 FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING I PUAN HASLINA BT HASSAN GROUP ASSIGNMENT NAME MATRIC NO 1. Faris Aina Nabila Ismail 142013108 2. Nurul Aisha Niaz Ali Abdullah 142012913 3. Nur Adriana Amran 142013284 4. Nur Azlina Isam 142012902 5. Hemalatha A/P Vasu 142012834 CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 Introduction CHAPTER 2 Company Background CHAPTER 3 Annual Report CHAPTER 4 Assumptions CHAPTER 5 Conclusion
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Influence of Social Culture and Industry Culture on Organizational Culture Niloofar Namjoofard Global Challenges B7521 Argosy University Fall I‚ 2012 Dr. Nkemeh Relationship Between Social Culture‚ Industry Culture and Organizational Culture According to Briscoe & Schuler global organizations try to offer products and services with lowest costs‚ highest quality and shortest time of delivery to wherever demand is sufficient. They provide the resources from wherever the
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Chinese Culture - The Culture of Shanghai Shanghai University 30.11.2012 Shanghai – Brief Overview Shanghai is an important commercial harbor and the most important industrial town of the People ’s Republic of China. The administrative area has more than 23 million inhabitants. The status of the town corresponds to that of a province; the town is subordinated directly of the central government. Shanghai is an important traffic interchange and an important cultural center and educational
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Marriage and Kinship ties of Indian culture specifically of the village of Ratakote as told in Conformity and Conflict. The first thing I noticed about both cultures was they practiced arranged marriages with their children preferably being young (the Indians explained that young age was best so their children wouldn’t start becoming sexually active and elope with someone else they fell in love with and break off the entire marriage they were in). Both cultures were very close to each other family-wise
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Machu Picchu is the one of the few preserved pieces from the Incan empire. High in the Andes Mountains‚ the mysterious ancient city remained standing. No people practice the religion nor speak their language today‚ because of the Spanish’s harsh conquering of the Incan
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Rastafari Culture The Extreme Ethiopian Rasta Vs. The Mellow Dallas Rasta Not unlike the widely accepted religion of the Indian people - Hinduism many people all over the world wrestle with what it means to be a Rasta. Of those I’ve spoken with a number seem to have difficulty grasping its true meaning mostly because they look as Rastafari as being merely another religion rather than way of LIFE‚ a SOCIAL MOVEMENT‚ as well as a STATE-OF-MIND. Perhaps another reason
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Corporate Culture Analysis of Toyota Case study Analysis By Mithila Saranapala ABSTRACT This case study analyses the corporate culture of Toyota by using two theories and then analyze the national cultures of Japan and USA by using two theories and its impact on the corporate culture of Toyota. The models of “Edgar Schein” and “Charles Handy” will be used to analyze the corporate culture of Toyota while the models of “Greet Hofstede” and “Fons Trompenaars” will be used to analyze
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