1. What are some of the contextual issues for McDonald’s in India (Describe the Indian context using Hofstede/Trompenaars/GLOBE). What are some of the more prominent social instritutions at work that will impact on this case (Religion‚ Government‚ Social institutions‚ Education‚ Politics‚ etc.) Trompenaars: Particularism: After many years of studying the Indian food market‚ build relationships and get to know people to better understand Indian’s needs. McDonald’s was ready to get into India’s market
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The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/1352-7606.htm Cross-cultural management in China Keyong Dong School of Public Administration‚ Renmin University of China‚ Beijing‚ China‚ and Cross-cultural management in China 223 Ying Liu Institute of Organization and Human Resource‚ School of Public Administration‚ Renmin University of China‚ Beijing‚ China Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to: summarize the major research
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People in low power distance societies like the United States‚ try to equalize the distribution of power and we demand justification for inequalities of power. This dimension measures the attitude of a culture towards the distribution of power (Hofstede‚ United States). A.2 Movie example: In the beginning of the movie‚ Keaton stumbles into the Japanese management training program for executives who are failing. Kazihiro is covered in ribbons of shame‚ standing before top management pleading
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theories that can help in understanding the differences by acquiring certain skills in dealing with different cultures. Geert Hofstede is one of the most popular names in this field. He did several studies about the subject and wrote books to explain his findings. His most famous one is the IBM study‚ held in more than 50 countries around the world. As a result of the IBM study‚ Hofstede came up with five cultural dimensions that can be used to assess each countries culture; power distance‚ uncertainty avoidance
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saying can be also used in the culture. For that reason‚ different cultures would make people have different behaviours.Culture can be defines as “the collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one human group from another” (Hofstede 1984‚ p: 21). Culture is consisting of language‚ political‚ values‚ belief‚ food‚ cloth‚ etc. And those elements make people have different behaviours. Therefore‚ there are significance differences between two cultures and so does two national cultures
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Chapter 1 4. Discuss examples of recent macro political risk events and the effect they have or might have on a foreign subsidiary. What are micro political risk events? Give some examples and explain how they affect international business. Micro political risk is the risk of loss of assets or income that is specific to one company or one industry. For example‚ a McDonald’s restaurant is destroyed in Indonesia as the result of a fundamentalist uprising against American companies. Other micro
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2005 study and comparing the results. Findings suggest that there have been some changes towards individualism while at the same time there is an increase in the uncertainty avoidance of e-commerce users in Cyprus. Keywords: Culture; E-Commerce; Hofstede 1.0 Introduction The increase in the internet usage overall and the increase in the e-commerce activity world-wide continues. For smaller nations‚ such as Cyprus‚ the penetration of e-commerce in the island’s population may be smaller but it
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MBS618 – Dispute Management Lecturer: Mr Ernest Charles Boswarva “Assignment 1 – Case 8 Sick Leave” 3383 words CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION 3 2 NEGOTIATION 3 2.1 CONTEXT OF NEGOTIATIONS 3 2.2 FORMS OF NEGOTIATIONS 4 2.3 TANGIBLE / INTANGIBLE FACTORS 5 3 CULTURE 6 3.1 CROSS CULTURAL COMPARISONS 6 3.1.1 POWER DISTANCE 7 3.1.2 INDIVIDUALISM 7 3.1.3 MASCULINITY 8 3.1.4 UNCERTAINTY AVOIDANCE 8 3.1.5 PRAGMATISM 9 3.1.6 INDULGENCE 9 3.2 SHARED VALUES 9 3.3 THE INFLUENCE OF
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of different cultures would be useful. Hofstede’s cultural taxonomy helps in the understanding of cultural differences. Hofstede proposed that people carry mental programs that are developed during their childhood and are reinforced by their culture (Lustig‚ Koester‚ 2006‚ p.114). Through these programs‚ the ideas of a culture are expressed through its principal values. Hofstede conducted a study of over 100‚000 IBM employees in over seventy-one countries in order to identify these principal values
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advances that in dealing with matters of culture in the international domain‚ the point in question is how these cultural issues are managed and not the mere existence of the same that determines the success or failures of organisations. Keywords: Hofstede‚ National culture‚ Organisational culture‚ Multi-national companies 1. Introduction Culture affects and governs all facets of life by influencing values‚ attitudes and behaviours of a society. The culture of an organisation relates to the unique
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