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The impact of culturally acquired behavioral norms on workplace communication.
(2004)
This study explored cultural diversity influences on the concepts of time and punctuality; allowable limits of expressiveness; kinesics and oculesic cues; request/response time; and ethnic and gender preferences for ...
Two directors performing the work of directing: An ethnographic and conversation analytic inquiry in the direction of pedagogical influence.
(2004)
The data for this study are ethnographic participant/observation and conversation analytic collections from two theatre production processes in an educational theatre program. The intent of the study is to investigate how ...
The development and globalization of a transnational media conglomerate: A historical case study of Matsushita Electric Industrial Company.
(2002)
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. is one of several media conglomerates that pursues an idealized, transnational conglomerate model. Matsushita Electric participates in the development of technology, the disbursement ...
Managing post-merger corporate culture: A case study of two mergers in the United States transportation industry.
(2007)
One company proactively sought to recognize and adopt the best cultural characteristics of both pre-merger partners. The other company chose to rapidly integrate two competitors with an expectation that the culture of the ...
Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication on a College Campus: Using School Spirit and Fear Appeals to Achieve Student Safety
(2009)
In today's society where universities are viable targets for crises, it is imperative that school administrators communicate effectively with students and that those students, in turn, follow appropriate crisis and emergency ...
No time for reason: Deliberation, status, and democracy in the modern society.
(2005)
Economic use of time (efficiency) and democracy are common features in many modern western societies. However, a strong egalitarian democracy requires equal participation in the social construction of meaning, reason and ...
A semiotic analysis of political cartoons: A case study of Nigeria.
(2002)
Using two methodological approaches, a purely structural semiotic analysis with hermeneutics, this study analyzes how meaning is produced in Nigerian political cartoons published it three magazines during 1993--1996. This ...
Organizational culture, identity, commitment, and citizenship behaviors: Antecedents, change over time, interrelationships, and potential of inoculation to bolster identity, commitment, and citizenship behaviors.
(2006)
This study examined the antecedents of several organizational variables (organizational culture, organizational identity, organizational commitment, and organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs), how they are linked ...
Stress, coping behavior, and social support in Japan and the United States.
(2007)
The purpose of this research is to examine cultural similarities and differences in perceptions of stress, coping behavior, and social support within the theoretical framework of two cultural factors (individualism/collectivism ...
The process of inoculation and its potential in promoting resistance to the effectiveness of multiple competitive attacks on the country of origin concept.
(2006)
This investigation tested the ability of different resistance strategies to protect the positive COO image attributed to products in the face of singe and multiple competitor attacks. The results illustrate the superiority ...