{"title":"Culture shock and its perception by sojourners in the USA: an explorative study","authors":"D. Petkova","doi":"10.1504/EJCCM.2009.026736","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/EJCCM.2009.026736","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the results of an intercultural study done at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA in the period September 2006 to February 2007 when 23 informants from 17 countries were interviewed face-to-face and recorded on tapes. It outlines three distinct phases in the perception of culture shock: 1) unawareness, 2) partial awareness, 3) full awareness, and argues that culture shock appears out of the conflict between local codes and perceived meanings. The process of cultural hybridisation is a natural outcome of the coping strategies with culture shock. However, the paper also argues that full adaptation is not at all equal to cultural assimilation.","PeriodicalId":108773,"journal":{"name":"European J. of Cross-cultural Competence and Management","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129787747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Diversity, Darwin and democracy","authors":"S. Magala","doi":"10.1504/EJCCM.2009.026731","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/EJCCM.2009.026731","url":null,"abstract":"The concept of diversity should be disentangled from the 'neodarwinist' interpretations, liberated from close affinities with the equally ambiguous concept of 'identity' and become more 'relational' and 'socialised' in order to become a robust foundation of a promising research program. Celebrating differences, we should be careful not to legitimise inequalities inherent, implicitly included in 'otherness' and 'difference'. Critical social researchers have to reach towards sweatshops, sex workers and domestics in order to understand the 'unnatural selection of tolerated versus opposed forms of systematic inequalities'. Neodarwinism is wrong; diversity management does not necessarily have to be.","PeriodicalId":108773,"journal":{"name":"European J. of Cross-cultural Competence and Management","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128660788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cross-cultural competence and management - setting the stage","authors":"G. Fink, W. Mayrhofer","doi":"10.1504/EJCCM.2009.026733","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/EJCCM.2009.026733","url":null,"abstract":"At start up of our new journal we provide a frame of reference supporting reflections on the domain of cross-cultural competence and management and on future research. Referring to basic epistemological and ontological considerations, the article differentiates between various levels of analysis and gives examples for fruitful research avenues for these levels: 1 'classical' issues in cross-cultural competence and management research 2 the epistemology of a system with values, beliefs (stereotypes) and knowledge (memory), the ontology of a system with personality (decision making processes) and the phenomenology of a system with action and observable patterns of behaviour 3 relations of societal culture to structural, demographic and ecological characteristics of societies and to their historical experience, to national policies or distributions of individual attitudes, values, behaviour, etc. within societies 4 issues related to the time dimension 5 methodological issues such as meaningful cultural distance measures or mixed language use.","PeriodicalId":108773,"journal":{"name":"European J. of Cross-cultural Competence and Management","volume":"283 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121368533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The contribution of autophotography for cross-cultural knowledge transfer","authors":"Frank Bruck, Astrid Kainzbauer","doi":"10.1504/EJCCM.2009.026735","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/EJCCM.2009.026735","url":null,"abstract":"This paper introduces the use of autophotography in cross-cultural research and describes the possibilities of knowledge transfer using the research output directly in cultural training settings. Autophotography is a method used to compare two cultures on the basis of photographs. Test persons (members of one culture who live in a second culture) are required to make photos expressing certain aspects of a culture. In an interview the test persons then explain their motives, what values they wanted to express and why this photo was typical of the target culture. This method produces authentic photographs which offer insights into the perception of artefacts by people from different cultures. The photographs may then be used in cross-cultural knowledge transfer processes. One way of incorporating emotions into the training process is the use of photographs. Since visual material has a stronger and more direct impact on emotions (Goleman, 1995), photographs can help fill the emotional gap in trainings.","PeriodicalId":108773,"journal":{"name":"European J. of Cross-cultural Competence and Management","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130253668","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cultural standard research and its implications for managing multinational teams: cooperation with Croatians and Slovenes - the Austrian perspective","authors":"S. Meierewert","doi":"10.1504/EJCCM.2009.026737","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/EJCCM.2009.026737","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the impact of different cultural variables in the particular contexts of Austrian, Croatian and Slovenian task groups. Referring to the concept of taxonomy of team processes developed by Marks et al. (2001), I analysed about 102 qualitative interviews with managers and identified cultural traits that significantly influence process dimensions relevant in cooperations. In contrast to other culture studies (see e.g., House et al., 2002; Sagiv and Schwartz, 2007; Hall, 2000; Trompenaars, 1997; Hofstede, 2001) the framework of narrative interviews (Thomas, 1993, 1996) focuses on many different cultural variables and on the particular contexts of these variables. I identified the following critical elements relevant for interactions in intercultural teamwork: time concepts in different context situations, level of personal responsibility and importance of social relationships.","PeriodicalId":108773,"journal":{"name":"European J. of Cross-cultural Competence and Management","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126879447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Counter-narration with numbers: understanding the interplay of words and numerals in fiscal storytelling","authors":"R. Gephart","doi":"10.1504/EJCCM.2016.10002298","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/EJCCM.2016.10002298","url":null,"abstract":"This paper addresses how numbers are given meaning in and through storytelling. It uses narrative-rhetorical analysis to uncover sensemaking practices used to construct meaning for quantitative, financial and temporal numbers in texts and finds that numbers are important and prevalent in organisational storytelling. Numbers are given meaning by artful association with words and other numbers. The paper contributes to the literature on counter-narratives by showing the importance of numbers and quantification in counter-narrative storytelling, identifying limitations of past storytelling literature that has viewed stories and numbers as separate elements of narration, and outlining an approach to understanding the role of numbers in storytelling. The paper then shows that numbers and stories are interdependent features of narration that work together to make numbers meaningful features of persuasive of storytelling. It concludes by arguing that the management of the meaning of numbers is a key task for managers.","PeriodicalId":108773,"journal":{"name":"European J. of Cross-cultural Competence and Management","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123249717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cultural values of self-initiated expatriates: a pilot study","authors":"Chiara Cannavale, Marie-Thérèse Claes","doi":"10.1504/ejccm.2019.097832","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ejccm.2019.097832","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":108773,"journal":{"name":"European J. of Cross-cultural Competence and Management","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121981928","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Differences in attitudes towards corporate social responsibility between Lithuanian and Swedish consumers","authors":"I. Pikturnienė, Egle Vasiliauskaite","doi":"10.1504/EJCCM.2012.052604","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/EJCCM.2012.052604","url":null,"abstract":"One of the newly emerging aspects that attract scholars’ attention is attitudes towards corporate social responsibility (CSR) in different countries: do they differ worldwide, to what extent, and how do the differences in attitudes result in different buying behaviour? Lithuanian and Swedish consumers were compared using Aupperle et al. (1985) measure of CSR orientation; additional questions measured presumptive price premiums for products of the companies that emphasise different CSR orientations. The findings demonstrate that Lithuanians are more economically and legally (in terms of CSR attitudes) oriented than Swedes, whereas Swedes demonstrate stronger ethical and philanthropic CSR orientation. Consumers allocate marginally diminishing price premiums for products produced by economic and legal CSR orientation companies. Higher potential price premiums would be allocated for ethically and philanthropically oriented companies. In the latter case Swedish consumers are more likely to pay measurable price premium.","PeriodicalId":108773,"journal":{"name":"European J. of Cross-cultural Competence and Management","volume":"2014 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114640925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"International entrepreneurship and development strategies in the shipping industry. Does culture play a role","authors":"Anna Esempio","doi":"10.1504/EJCCM.2021.10036828","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/EJCCM.2021.10036828","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":108773,"journal":{"name":"European J. of Cross-cultural Competence and Management","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125898226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Applying action learning in the development of business students' intercultural competences","authors":"Danuta Babińska","doi":"10.1504/ejccm.2021.116877","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ejccm.2021.116877","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":108773,"journal":{"name":"European J. of Cross-cultural Competence and Management","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130012894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}