COMMUNICATION AS A CROSS-‐CULTURAL CHALLENGE FOR INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT A CASE STUDY OF GINA TRICOT Paper within: Bachelor Thesis in Business Administration Authors: Tutor: Frida Mordenfeld Sandra Johansson Pamela Hinojosa Giron Zehra Sayed 881201-‐5520
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Cross-cultural business Australia Business Etiquette & Culture Australia Introduction Australia has a population of almost 20 million people in a country not much smaller than the contiguous 48 United States. However‚ the great majority of the population is located in a few major urban centers. The large majority of the population (93%) has a European heritage‚ primarily English. The predominant language of the country is English with Christianity the largest religion (75%). The Aborigines
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OTh CROSS CULTURAL COMMUNICATIONS CASE STUDY : A TAKEOVER I will recommend to Swiss Foods to follow some recommendations so that they can benefit from their takeover. First of all‚ i will recommend you to launch a campaign to help local people and workers get to know you company better to show them that they don’t have to be affraid from us. We will tell them that we like the fact that they have a strong links with the local community we see that as a strenght
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Gesteland is the author of a cross-cultural business behavior model. In his model he names 4 set of attributes. Each set has 2 contrary traits. We have: * relationship-focused and deal-focused business cultures * formal and informal business cultures * polychronic and monochromic business cultures * reserved and expressive business cultures We present each set of attributes in a table to simplify the content: Relationship-focused business cultures | Deal-focused business cultures | People are
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ETHICS ETHICAL ISSUES IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS Many of the ethical issues and dilemmas in international business are rooted in the fact that political systems‚ law‚ economic development‚ and culture vary significantly from Nation to nation. Consequently‚ what is considered normal practice in one nation may be considered unethical in others. Because they work for an institution that transcends National borders and cultures‚ managers in a multinational firm need to be particularly sensitive
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with effective cross-cultural understanding. First is what she calls "cognitive constraints." These are the frames of reference or world views that provide a backdrop that all new information is compared to or inserted into. Second are "behavior constraints." Each culture has its own rules about proper behavior which affect verbal and nonverbal communication. Whether one looks the other person in the eye-or not; whether one says what one means overtly or talks around the issue; how close the people
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Cultural Differences in International Business If you have traveled a lot before‚ you know that there are huge differences in communication between people from one country to another. In some cultures‚ people are loud‚ direct or even blunt and tend to interrupt others during a conversation. In others‚ people are typically soft-spoken‚ use flowery or indirect language and wait patiently for others to finish their sentence. During a business meeting‚ these differences are likely to come to the
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Cross-culture Issues in Business Communication Introduction When travelling in other countries‚ we often perceive differences in the way people live and work. In the United States dinner is commonly eaten around 6.00pm; in Spain‚ it’s not served until 8.00 or 9.00pm. In the United States most people shop in large supermarket once or twice a week; Italians tend to shop in smaller grocery stores nearly every day. Everybody has their own culture so businesspeople must keep in mind of their client’s
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Elaborate on three of the cross cultural communication principles and give concrete examples for it of them. Cross cultural communication is a studying of how to look at people from differing cultural backgrounds communicate (for example‚ national‚ ethics‚ religious‚ etc)‚ resulting from a common language and communication style‚ customs‚ beliefs‚ attitudes and values‚ in similar and different ways among themselves and how they endeavour to communicate cross the cultural. Cross cultural communication has
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