Claremont Colleges Scholarship @ Claremont CMC Senior Theses CMC Student Scholarship 2011 The Effect of Culture on the Implementation of International Financial Reporting Standards Mitchell A. Skotarczyk Claremont McKenna College Recommended Citation Skotarczyk, Mitchell A., "The Effect of Culture on the Implementation of International Financial Reporting Standards" (2011). CMC Senior Theses. Paper 165. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/165 This Open Access Senior
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Geert Hofstede's Dimensions of Culture and Edward T. Hall's Time Orientations Hofstede's "dimensions of culture" were derived mainly from his extensive organizational anthropology research in the late 1970s and early 1980s – the scores are general comparisons of values in the countries and regions he studied and can vary greatly within each country. Although Hofstede's work is somewhat dated and has rightly been criticized on a number of grounds the dimensions are useful in understanding that members
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Geert Hofstede's Dimensions of Culture and Edward T. Hall's Time Orientations Hofstede's "dimensions of culture" were derived mainly from his extensive organizational anthropology research in the late 1970s and early 1980s – the scores are general comparisons of values in the countries and regions he studied and can vary greatly within each country. Although Hofstede's work is somewhat dated and has rightly been criticized on a number of grounds the dimensions are useful in understanding that
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CHAPTER 3 Group Member Diversity CHAPTER OUTLINE Heterogeneous Groups Personality Dimensions Personality Theory Implications of Personality Dimensions Cultural Dimensions Individualism–Collectivism Power Distance Uncertainty Avoidance Masculine–Feminine High Context–Low Context Monochronic Time–Polychronic Time Barriers to Cultural Understanding Gender Dimensions Generational Dimensions Balanced Diversity GroupWork: Personality Preferences GroupAssessment: Identifying Cultural Dialectics ISBN:
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terms of leadership styles as influenced by their respective different cultures. The reason in selecting Japan as one of the research countries is because of its deep rooted strong cultural beliefs and group centered style in a business perspective. It is well known to the world that Japan is a closed economy but at the same time, extremely competitive. On the other hand, United States make a good contrast in terms of its open culture and individualistic style of doing business. Despite the differences
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CULTURAL EFFECTS ON CONSUMER BEHAVIOR Andrew J. Marsiglia, PhD, CCP Cultural value systems have a direct effect on consumer behavior and vary by the major cultural dimensions between countries but become increasingly complex when people immigrate to foreign countries that have different cultural dimensions. In these situations, people are subjected to a wide variety of cultural reference groups that ultimately affect their consumer behavior. Consequently, marketers must develop marketing communication
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about culture and ethics before taking this Workshop and how do we feel now after taking it? Being originally from Venezuela, I can say that I was aware of the ethics and culture impact in business and relationship amongst different countries before taking this course, however not to the level of specific details that I learned from this course. But for sure I was aware that the way of thinking, doing business, solving conflicts and approaching relationships varies greatly in every culture. One of
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non-Hispanic white population is growing at a rate of less than 0.5 percent per year.” http://www.esri.com/news/arcnews/winter0607articles/the-changing-face.html Although the term culture can have different definitions, it is obvious that throughout the world, different regions hold different cultures. Culture identities can be examined by: 1) cultural patterns 2) beliefs, values, and norms 3) Hall’s three levels of identity and 4) cultural communication. This paper will examine the United States
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Giao tiếp; Giao tiếp nơi công sở Content CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1.1. Rationale In recent years many researchers in applied linguistics and professionals working for an international company have emphasised the importance of knowledge of different cultures and they agree that globalisation has brought about the growing trend to communicate with people from different cultural backgrounds. With the increasing importance of the Vietnam market in the world economy, many international companies rushed and
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family members to work in a family own business, as personal preferences are important and university education is general. Exploring Spanish culture trough the Hofstede 5-D model we can deduct that Span consist of a hierarchical society, with no equal distribution of power within the members of the society. In contrast with the United States Spain culture is considered collectivist rather than individualist. People look out for each other, something that in the U.S you maybe only see within family
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