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3This study aims to show that the approaches to culture and cultural differences usually referred to in IB courses at RBS are misleading in many ways. It aims at animating managers, teachers, and students of international business to develop an understanding of a different ‘culture’ that surpasses a superficial awareness of different usances and collective inclinations to specific behavioural patterns that goes beyond references to scores on scales reliant on antipodes such as collectivism and individualism that serve as universal explanation for anything that is different. Whereas this implies the intention to provide a general route to understanding and accessing different ‘cultures’, this paper does explicitly not aim at developing another dubious model to assess cultural differences. Neither does it aim at developing quantitative parameters to create easily accessible schemes and graphs, allegedly allowing for the evaluation of cultural differences at a glance when doing business internationally. On the contrary, the starting point of this study begins with the conviction that only a hermeneutical, qualitative approach and a constructivist perspective can allow for the understanding of ‘cultures’, including collective habitus (Pierre Bourdieu) and social graces.
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INKIJKEXEMPLAAR - ‘Disability’ gaat in oorsprong terug naar een fenomeen dat ontstaat wanneer iemand met een beperking/stoornis/label op een negatieve manier geconfronteerd wordt met gebouwde, fysieke, sociale, georganiseerde en culturele omgevingen. Dergelijke op zijn minst onaangename confrontaties ontstaan omdat een groot deel van de huidige samenleving gespiegeld wordt aan wat een ‘normaal’ persoon wordt genoemd. Disabilty studies scholars zijn lange tijd blijven hangen in een modellenstrijd. De laatste tijd wordt echter een heel andere discussie gevoerd. Het gaat immers om een complex en relationeel probleem met vele armen. Precies dit geheel wordt in dit boek vanuit diverse invalshoeken geanalyseerd.
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Hoofdstuk uit het boek: Disability Studies in de Lage Landen. G. van Hove, A. Schippers, M. Cardol, E. De Schauwer (red) (2016), pag 100-111
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Hoofdstuk uit het boek: Disability Studies in de Lage Landen. G. van Hove, A. Schippers, M. Cardol, E. De Schauwer (red) (2016), pag 245-265
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This article starts from the observation that popular culture resides in a contradictory space. On the one hand it seems to be thriving, in that the range of media objects that were previously studied under the rubric of popular culture has certainly expanded. Yet, cultural studies scholars rarely study these media objects as popular culture. Instead, concerns about immaterial labor, about the manipulation of voting behavior and public opinion, about filter bubbles and societal polarization, and about populist authoritarianism, determine the dominant frames with which the contemporary media environment is approached. This article aims to trace how this change has come to pass over the last 50 years. It argues that changes in the media environment are important, but also that cultural studies as an institutionalizing interdisciplinary project has changed. It identifies “the moment of popular culture” as a relatively short-lived but epoch-defining moment in cultural studies. This moment was subsequently displaced by a set of related yet different theoretical problematics that gradually moved the study of popular culture away from the popular. These displacements are: the hollowing out of the notion of the popular, as signaled early on by Meaghan Morris’ article “The Banality of Cultural Studies” in 1988; the institutionalization of cultural studies; the rise of the governmentality approach and a growing engagement with affect theory.
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This study empirically examines individual and organizational factors that influence expatriates’ cross-cultural adjustment and job performance. The study was a quantitative research from 117 Thai expatriates who work in Thai multinational companies (MNC) located in Indonesia. The results of the study indicated that financial perceived organizational support influence positively towards Thai expatriates’ overall cross-cultural adjustment in Indonesia. This study found that cross-cultural training influenced positively towards Thai expatriates’ adjustment. A causal relationship between the predicting variables of crosscultural adjustment and Thai expatriates’ job performance was not found. Results suggest important consequences for management strategies providing support to Thai expatriate employees increasing their adjustment in Indonesia. Keywords: Cross-Cultural Adjustment; Job
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to conduct a critical analysis to address cultural metaphors – a much overlooked aspect of cross-cultural studies. Mainstream cultural metaphors (e.g. the iceberg, the software of the mind, the onion, and the distance) are not only limited in number, but are also overwhelmingly based on the static paradigm – as opposed to the dynamic paradigm that is often sidelined in academic discourse.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper introduces the Diagram of Diversity Pathways – an interdisciplinary framework that sheds some light on how the inherent meaning and heuristic orientation of static cultural metaphors may stand at odds with evidence from the newly emerged field of neurobiology.
Findings
The implications of these metaphors are called into question, namely, culture is all about differences; values are stable; values guide behaviors; and values are seen as binaries.
Research limitations/implications
The paper suggests that theorists and practitioners should pay more attention to the contribution and scholarly work of the dynamic paradigm since there appears to be substantial compatibility between them.
Originality/value
The matching of neurobiology and dynamic paradigm brings into focus alternative metaphors which not only offer insightful perspectives but also may open doors to perceive culture in a new way. Furthermore, cultural metaphors deserve more academic scrutiny because metaphors and theory development can have a symbiotic existence.
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Collecting local memories on-line is a growing practice with participatory elements on different levels. Three levels of participation – micro, meso and macro – are introduced by describing an exemplary case: the Memory of East in Amsterdam. These levels of this particular case can be grounded in the statements of the Convention on the Value of Cultural Heritage for Society. This indicates that the Memory of East case might be a good practice. However, looking at 53 other cases shows that the three levels are present, but designed differently with respect to the degree in which residents participate. Since the convention is not specific enough we choose the notion of cultural citizenship to assess the value of cases like these. We claim that the cases that have more focus on ordinary residents participating on all three levels assures a sustainable and self-feeding system, which is the best answer to the goals of the convention.
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The purpose of this study was to investigate entrepreneurial intentions and cultural differences. The sample represents 1,110 business students from ten cultural
clusters. The students completed a questionnaire that focussed on various dimensions of entrepreneurial intentions. Results indicated various statistically significant differences between the cultures. Country specific strategies related to enhancing entrepreneurship are discussed at the end of the paper.
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