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Joint Ventures, Knowledge Acquisition and Strategy Theory

as Asker, argued that the two may be compatible (Thompson, 2007). To understand what is meant by each of these strategies ...

Safety Practices Not Followed by Firefighters

things get done and how, it is the personality of the organization. This firehouse has lapsed into a culture based on competition ...

Important Developments 1950s Through the 1990s

dealt with racial differences. Its impacts would extend from the educational arena to the workplace and eventually to interperson...

The Relevance of Culture for African American Students: Methodology

American learners? The goal of this study is to better understand the impact of African American culture on the academic achi...

Analysis of low and very low calorie diets

For most people who are obese, their condition is long-term and requires a lifetime of attention even after formal weight-loss tre...

Fashion/Culture

shirt and often had a band that went behind the tie knot, keeping everything crisp and in place. The 70s was not a time, in popula...

Gender Roles in the Arapesh and Mundugumor

see as "maternal in its parental aspects, and feminine in its sexual aspects" (p. 259). Mundugumor men and women, in contrast, ea...

The Ethnocentric Approach to Human Resource Management and its use in International Companies

level with reference to the human resource issues as many individuals at head office are assumed to have insufficient local knowle...

Global Expansion

Best Coffee House executives need to explore the cultures in any region they are considering for expansion. One good source is Hof...

FINANCIAL REPORTING AND OVERSIGHT

compliance procedure, lack of standardized accounting procedures for Heinz divisions, no effective review and monitoring process, ...

A STUDY OF BOEING'S CULTURE AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS

however, some examples we can introduce. For example, some years ago, Assembly Automation wrote about the fact that Boeing develop...

Focusing on Process Involvement Rather than Individual Error in the Health Care Workplace

safety culture; hereafter "Trust thrives"). The culture is based on understanding and trust, and is further supported by a system ...

Time Travel and the Architecture of Ancient Rome, Greece and Egypt

Greek life was impacted in many ways by its art and architecture (Dickinson, 2008). Two of the most visible of these ways were th...

Australian Cross Cultural Experiences

at the dominant culture as the principle culture and then at others which have subsequently entered, this undermines the indigenou...

Issues in International Business

companies such as McDonalds are only verging on a true global presence The Uppsala Model is another model that looks at...

“Generation Rx”

do, in fact, demonstrate an phenomenal increase over time in the number of prescriptions that the typical American uses. This num...

MANAGING DIVERSITY AND CULTURE

of a different ethnicity, Im also the youngest in the group, and this also likely colored some perceptions. But I had some percept...

Discrimination and Its Impact on Racial and Cultural Understanding

some periods of history than in others (Sowell). Author Shelby Steele writes that "whites in America today are fearful of being co...

Technology and Culture: The Electronic Media and Our Children

accounts of child abductions, rapes, and murders practically every day. We are kept up-to-date on the violence in Iraq and that u...

Human Rights and the Asian Values Argument

not be seen as universal needs to be considered, it may be argued that even in the west the concept of universal human rights is r...

Alexandria

since the city was taken over by Alexander the Great in 332 BCE (Shillington, 2005). Shillington (2005) explains: "The intermixtur...

Intercultural Communication

the interview, the American interviewers decide the German interviewee is rather rigid. They think he has no sense of humor and wh...

Ancient Civilizations: Greece and Rome Compared

the Greeks, which makes it all the stranger that it is the Roman Empire that grew and prospered, and not the earlier one. Part of ...

Collectivism and Commitment; Implications for Cross Cultural Management

tools such as 5 Ss and Six Sigma through to the general approaches of co-operative management (Katz and Darbishire, 2002). One ...

Lessons from “The Sopranos”

can be explained by the growing acceptance in our culture of anything that is off color, illegal, or even immoral. The type of gl...

Mao Zedong's Cultural Vision Of China

grew tired of this gaping void in their marriage and had an affair, despite her complete loyalty and subordination to him. She ye...

How Culture and Religion Shape Each Other

The pot fell and broke in the sand. He heard Ikemefuna cry, My father, they have killed me! as he ran towards him. Dazed with fear...

Audrey Hepburn’s Holly Golightly: The Power of the Femme Fatale in the Film Breakfast at Tiffany’s

successes in Roman Holiday, for which she won an Academy Award, and Sabrina. This was exactly why Audrey Hepburn was perfect for ...

Ethiopians In Israel - Reminiscence Groups

strong focus on c communality in the Ethiopian culture. Also, many families still try to hold onto their native culture as they a...

The Nature Of Strategy In An International Context; The Case of Nissan

is also highly reflective of the Japanese culture. The automotive industry in Japan rose up after the Second World War. It reflec...