{"title":"Organizational Culture and Reputation - Vectors in Shaping Successful Retail Brand Value","authors":"Dan-Cristian Dabija","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2232914","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2232914","url":null,"abstract":"In order to shape the customers’ image about a retailer, a retail brand or a retail format, the retail company may appeal, in addition to the marketing tools, to the corporate culture (the company’s own perspective) and the company’s reputation (how the company is perceived by the public). Corporate reputation plays an essential role in impressing a retailer’s image on the customers’ mind and provides input into the company’s successful positioning on the market. Using the structural equation modeling, the present paper investigates how reputation contributes to the elucidation of the behavior exhibited by the customers of super- and hypermarkets, specialized and proximity stores, and highlights their potential reaction to the preferred retail brand. The results reveal management implications that are useful to the retail enterprise in understanding its customers and in strengthening its position on the market and in the customers’ mind.","PeriodicalId":325534,"journal":{"name":"ORG: Organizational & National Culture (Topic)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129634880","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":"How to Improve Cross-Cultural Training Programs in Korea?","authors":"Jinxi Li","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2131588","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2131588","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents current cross-cultural training programs in Korea, including the programs in big corporations such as Samsung, LG and Hyundai as well as the programs for foreign workers, multicultural family members and foreign students. The paper explains how to apply Bolten’s cross-cultural training methods to those programs. Some guidelines to improve CCT programs are also indicated.","PeriodicalId":325534,"journal":{"name":"ORG: Organizational & National Culture (Topic)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114358013","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 Adaptability of Organizational Change Interventions","authors":"Charles A. Rarick","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1112447","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1112447","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses the ability of the change agent, or OD practitioner to use intervention techniques across different cultures. It is proposed that a contingency approach must be employed in prescribing the appropriate technique, and that certain cultural typologies are helpful in deciding which intervention is most appropriate. In particular, the article uses the provided by Hofstede, Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck, and Trompenaars, to show how change management must be adapted to various cultural parameters.","PeriodicalId":325534,"journal":{"name":"ORG: Organizational & National Culture (Topic)","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131794085","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":"They Broke the Mold: The Spirit of Creativity in Japanese Enterprise","authors":"Matthew Hartogh","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1031473","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1031473","url":null,"abstract":"Every society is an enigma. The Japanese have been characterized as the most enigmatic of all. They are variously described as hidden, unknowable, impenetrable, inscrutable; all words which accuse the Japanese of being a group apart. This is a moral, as well as a scientific judgement, made by the same western scholarship which has characterized other non-western peoples. After the war, when commentators assumed that Japan would never be anything more than a colony of the first world, no one dreamed that within 35 years, Japan would challenge the US yet again.","PeriodicalId":325534,"journal":{"name":"ORG: Organizational & National Culture (Topic)","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115715133","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}