Dissertations / Theses: 'Cross-cultural communications'

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Svobodova, Petra, and Anna Gnyria. "Cross-cultural differences in marketing communications : The Importance of cross-cultural differences in the marketing communications: Investigated in Central and Eastern Europe." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Avdelningen för företagsekonomi, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-27896.

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Despite the globalization and cultures’ convergence, it is scholarly recognized that cross-cultural issues are important in a business context, especially for companies extending their activities internationally. However, existing theory does not provide an explicit answer of how cultural differences between countries influence customers’ perception of different aspects of marketing communication mix. That is why the underlying task of the current paper is to investigate if cross-cultural differences within the same geographic region are big enough to affect customers’ perception of marketing communication mix used. To facilitate a data collection, Central and Eastern European region represented by Ukraine and Czech Republic were chosen. As a reference tourism industry was used, due to its’ current significance, scale and global nature. Data was collected by conducting secondary and primary research, both having quantitative nature. Secondary data was collected through statistical offices and official on-line sources. For the primary research purposes a questionnaire survey was conducted among pre-defined target audience in Czech Republic and Ukraine. 300 responses obtained provided a solid basis for the further analysis. Based on the relevant theory and secondary research findings four hypotheses were developed to address the research question “Does cross-cultural differences within Central and Eastern Europe affect the marketing communication mix in a specific industry?”. The study results provided that cultural differences exist not only between different regions, but also found within the same geographic region. When considered from marketing perspective, they are significant enough to influence customers’ preferences and perceptions of different aspects of marketing communication mix. The results obtained are specific for a particular case, so they can not be applied to some other countries. However, when it comes to marketing communication perceptions, the results can be used as guidelines by other industries then tourism

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Forbes, David Edward. "A framework for assistive communications technology in cross-cultural healthcare." Thesis, Curtin University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2453.

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Rural and remote Australian Aboriginal communities suffer seriously adverse life expectancy rates, lifestyle disease complications and hospital treatment needs due to type 2 diabetes. In great part this is due to communications barriers arising from the lack of equitable acculturation within patient-practitioner consultations. This research presents a framework foundation for a computerised patient-practitioner lingua franca. Behavioural and design science ontology development delivers an intercultural patient-practitioner type 2 diabetes assistive communications system, known as P-PAC.

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Tam, Oi Yin. "Communications rivalry : a case study on communication issues between HK Chinese and American co-workers." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2005. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/685.

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Wang, Ying. "INTERNET USE AMONG CHINESE STUDENTS AND ITS IMPLICATION FOR CROSS-CULTURAL ADAPTATION." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1164921279.

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Keenan, Joanna. "Where’s Waddan? Missing Maps and cross-cultural voluntary engagement in ICT4D initiatives." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21582.

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In the wake of the Haiti earthquake response in 2010, crowdsourced humanitarian mapping has taken off, and today is considered an essential tool by many humanitarian agencies providing assistance in disaster-affected and under-resourced countries and contexts. But what happens when there is no information on a map to help agencies decide how to respond? If they cannot find roads to take to get there? If they do not know how many houses are in a village? What if the map is – missing?In response to this all-too-common problem, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), American Red Cross, British Red Cross and the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) created and launched Missing Maps in 2014. A crowdsourced ICT4D tool designed to create accurate maps using satellite images, the initiative relies on volunteers – ‘digital humanitarians’ – to participate.So why participate? Previous research has looked at motivations for participation in open street mapping and other voluntary contribution-based tools, such as Wikipedia. Other research has described how to attract people to Missing Maps – and retain them. But until now, there has been no research exploring why people are motivated to volunteer for humanitarian ICT4D initiatives, and no researcher has tackled this subject from a cross-cultural perspective. Here I attempt to answer the question: what are the motivations for people to map? And more specifically, are the motivations of someone in the Global North to voluntarily map different from the motivations of someone in the Global South? In this paper, I outline the results of empirical research in the form of one-on-one interviews conducted across four cities I travelled to: London and Prague, to represent the Global North, and Beirut and Kampala, representing the Global South. In interviews in which a total of 21 participants were asked six standard questions about their interests, likes, motivations and challenges in mapping, I uncover clear differences between the motivations of not only people in the north versus south, but also amongst the young, and even between men and women. The results show that, while people from all walks of life and socio-economic backgrounds are motivated by a multitude of reasons, young people, especially in the Global North, are more likely to map from slacktivism tendencies given their perceptions of the mapping software’s ease of use. People from the Global North – particularly young women – were also more likely to engage out of interest in humanitarian issues or organisations like MSF. Played right, organisers could groom these young people into the humanitarians of the future. Meanwhile, people in the Global South were more likely to participate for both community and personal – such as career and life – benefits. This partly reflects previous research that has shown local bias to be a strong motivating factor for participation across other platforms. Although people across all four cities expressed some of their motivations to be altruistic ones, those in the Global South were more likely to express this response. Taking these results, I explore themes of how an ICT4D tool like Missing Maps will not change the status quo of inequality in the world, while questioning whether that is important enough to undermine the initiative. I also investigate the likelihood of being able to turn today’s young digital humanitarians into the humanitarian leaders of tomorrow. I also explore the impact of mapping in the Global South, both for those doing the mapping and those being mapped. Finally, I look at what initiatives like Missing Maps mean in the world of communications for development.

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Enkh-Amgalan, Rentsenkhand. "The Indulgence and Restraint Cultural Dimension: A Cross-Cultural Study of Mongolia and the United States." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/329.

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This research focuses on one of the least studied cultural dimension, “indulgence versus restraint” (IVR) and how it affects consumer behavior, international marketing, and global business operations in the U.S. and Mongolia. This project is the first research on IVR in Mongolia since the country is rarely studied and there is no available data for this cultural dimension. Samples of undergraduate business students (as consumers) from both countries were studied through surveys. The findings support that Mongolians and Americans are different regarding the “indulgence” cultural dimension. This paper has a significant contribution to the cross-cultural literature regarding the indulgence cultural dimension and its applications in global business and marketing and advertising strategies.

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Choi, Seunghee. "Cross-cultural job interview communication in business English as a lingua franca (BELF) contexts : a corpus-based comparative study of multicultural job interview communications in world maritime industry." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2014. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/5328/.

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With the aim of establishing a guideline for how to teach successful job interview communication in a multi-cultural Business as a Lingua Franca (BELF) setting, this thesis examines authentic job interview communications in the world maritime industry, compares overall features of successful and unsuccessful communications, and discusses pedagogical implications for ESP language teaching. For this purpose, authentic job interview communications conducted in four different countries between non-native speakers of English (both English as a Second Language and English as a Foreign Language speaker) including India, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam were collected. The data from 40 job interviews in total was transcribed for corpus analysis, and finally a Corpus of ELF Job Interviews in a Multicultural Business World (hereinafter CELF-JOIN) has been compiled for this research. Based on the analysis, a wide range of BELF job interview features were investigated in terms of contextual and schematic structures, interactional pragmatic features and lexico-grammatical characteristics. From the findings, pedagogical implications were drawn as ways to enhance learners’ schematic structural awareness, utilise diversified narrative strategies, increase interactional and presentational competency and finally to raise their multi-cultural awareness for successful business communicative outcomes in the future cross-cultural BELF job interview communicative setting.

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Reitz, Annika. "Cultural Influence in Advertising : A Comparative Analysis of IKEA’s Video Advertising in Sweden and Japan." Thesis, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, Högskolan i Jönköping, HLK, Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-40614.

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International marketing activities have a great impact on the prosperity and competitiveness of multinational companies (Akgün, Keskin, & Ayar, 2014). That is why the design of marketing activities is especially important. Researchers claim for cultural sensitivity. According to their work, culture has a significant influence on marketing content which needs to be culturally adapted (Kaur & Chawla, 2016). Based on these assumptions the present study aims to discuss the concepts of culture in relation to standardization and adaptation of IKEA’s advertising content published in Sweden and Japan. The study is focused on IKEA since the company is known to implement a standardized marketing approach with only minor cultural adaptations (Burt, Johansson, & Thelander, 2011). To accomplish that goal a multimodal critical discourse analysis is applied. The analysis seeks to identify the similarities and differences in IKEA’s video advertisements published in Sweden and Japan to determine how the company promotes its products. The analysis is limited to visual semiotic choices. The interpretation of the results is linked to the findings of Hofstede’s theory of cultural dimensions: Power Distance, Uncertainty Avoidance, Individualism versus Collectivism, Masculinity versus Femininity, Long- and Short-Term Orientation and Indulgence versus Restraint. The study revealed that signs for both concepts standardization and adaptation were visible in IKEA’s advertisements. Especially the analysis of the Japanese sample has shown that IKEA follows a standardized marketing approach when it comes to communicating the company’s core values such as gender equality. This value was frequently depicted in the Japanese advertisements where gender division usually prevails. However, less significant aspects such as those concerning the outer appearance of the actors were culturally adapted. These findings underline a dialectical relationship between culture and advertising content. Leading theoretical frameworks lag to take into account this continuous discourse that emphasizes the importance to implement the perspective of a changing environment in further theoretical contributions.

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Mullins, Daniel Austin. "The evolution of literacy : a cross-cultural account of literacy's emergence, spread, and relationship with human cooperation." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:98d1f155-c96d-4ba0-ac36-c610d3d7454c.

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Social theorists have long argued that literacy is one of the principal causes and hallmark features of complex society. However, the relationship between literacy and social complexity remains poorly understood because the relevant data have not been assembled in a way that would allow competing hypotheses to be adjudicated. The project set out in this thesis provides a novel account of the multiple origins of literate behaviour around the globe, the principal mechanisms of its cultural transmission, and its relationship with the cultural evolution of large-group human cooperation and complex forms of socio-political organisation. A multi-method large-scale cross-cultural approach provided the data necessary to achieve these objectives. Evidence from the societies within which literate behaviour first emerged, and from a representative sample of ethnographically-attested societies worldwide (n=74), indicates that literate behaviour emerged through the routinization of rituals and pre-literate sign systems, eventually spreading more widely through classical religions. Cross-cultural evidence also suggests that literacy assumed a wide variety of forms and socio-political functions, particularly in large, complex groups, extending evolved psychological mechanisms for cooperation, which include reciprocity, reputation formation and maintenance systems, social norms and norm enforcement systems, and group identification. Finally, the results of a cross-cultural historical survey of first-generation states (n=10) reveal that simple models assuming single cause-and-effect relationships between literacy and complex forms of socio-political organisation must be rejected. Instead, literacy and first-generation state-level polities appear to have interacted in a complex positive feedback loop. This thesis contributes to the wider goal of transforming social and cultural anthropology into a cumulative and rapid-discovery science.

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Bilets, A. S., and K. V. Serdyuk. "Cross-cultural business communication." Thesis, Sumy State University, 2016. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/49045.

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Now it is the time of globalization. It is important and complicated period for all mankind, because humanity cooperates in political, economic and professional organizations, works in multinational companies, exchanges experience in the industrial and professional spheres. Cross-cultural business communication is one of the most important reason that promoting business growth. Today this question becoming more popular on the global marketplace. For every company knowledge of intercultural communication increase their chances of success in international business arena [1]. That is why we want to consider some points of cross-cultural communication in business.

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Zhuang, Yuxi. "Representation of Working Women: A Comparative Study of Feature Films in China and the U.S. from 2000-2019." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1619196204339411.

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Valovoi, Vadym. "Transformations in cross-cultural communication." Thesis, Молодь у глобалізованому світі: академічні аспекти англомовних фахових досліджень (англ. мовою) / Укл., ред. А.І.Раду: збірник мат. конф. - Львів: ПП "Марусич", 2011. - 147 с, 2011. http://er.nau.edu.ua/handle/NAU/20865.

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Мугуєва, Ж. "Developing empathy in cross-cultural communication." Thesis, ФОП Левковець Н.М, 2016. https://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/77482.

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Залежно від когнітивної орієнтації людини, яка використовується для розуміння культурних відмінностей, люди можуть реагувати на неї різними способами. У процесі знайомства з різною культурою людина може відчувати різний стан міжкультурної чутливості. Щоб досягти найвищого рівня міжкультурної чутливості, людина має здобути усвідомлення різниці між культурами, виявити схожість, зрозуміти важливість міжкультурної різниці, дослідити та дослідити іншу культуру та нарешті розвинути емпатію до іншої культури.
В зависимости от когнитивной ориентации человека, используемой для понимания культурных различий, люди могут реагировать на это по-разному. В процессе знакомства с другой культурой человек может испытывать различное состояние межкультурной чувствительности. Чтобы достичь наивысшего уровня межкультурной чувствительности, человек должен осознать разницу между культурами, обнаружить сходства, понять важность межкультурных различий, исследовать и исследовать другую культуру и, наконец, развить эмпатию к другой культуре.
Depending on individual’s cognitive orientation used to understand cultural differences people can react to it in different ways. During the process of acquaintance with different culture, an individual can experience different state of intercultural sensitivity. To reach the highest level of cross-cultural sensitivity an individual has to acquire an awareness of difference between cultures, discover similarities, grasp the importance of intercultural difference, explore and research into the other culture and finally develop empathy toward the other culture.

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Cantor, Malcolm, and mcantor@austconsgroup com au. "Cross cultural consulting." Swinburne University of Technology. Graduate School of Business, 2000. http://adt.lib.swin.edu.au./public/adt-VSWT20050218.091024.

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This thesis is concerned with cross-cultural consulting. The research examines how a multinational consulting team worked with a multinational client. The consultants were from Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, Indonesia, USA and Australia and the client was a multinational oil company located on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia. The study employs the narrative theory of Ricoeur together with the research findings on culture of Hofstede, Trompenaars, Hall, Kluckhorn and Strodtbeck. The study relies on a comparison of national cultural characteristics as they were enacted duringthe conduct of a consulting project. The research emphasises the roles of the consultants, the consulting process and the consulting outcomes.

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Rayford, Vernon Alvin. "A cross cultural communication model of ministry." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1989. http://www.tren.com.

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Ходцева, Алла Олександрівна, Алла Александровна Ходцева, and Alla Oleksandrivna Khodtseva. "Cross cultural communication in the BE classroom." Thesis, СумДУ, 2015. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/59813.

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The abstract explores cross-cultural communication in Business English classroom as central in preparing students for their successful functioning in business environment. It can be incorporated in BE course through case studies, role-playing, simulations and culture awareness projects.
В тезах розглядається крос-культурне спілкування на заняттях з ділової англійської мови як важлива передумова для успішного функціонування студентів у діловому оточенні. В курсі англійської мови цей підхід може бути реалізований за допомогою методу конкретних ситуацій, рольових ігор та проектів.

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Медвідь, Олена Миколаївна, Елена Николаевна Медведь, Olena Mykolaivna Medvid, and A. O. Khodtseva. "Cross cultural communication in the ESP classroom." Thesis, Sumy State University, 2015. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/40061.

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The globalisation process seems to be impossible without relevant cross-cultural communication, which requires an entire set of social and cultural skills that has never been as important before in human history as now, and this is central in preparing future specialists for their successful functioning in business environment.

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Shmatko, D. O. "Cross-cultural communication in the globalized world." Thesis, Sumy State University, 2016. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/49276.

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The modern world is becoming increasingly globalized in its nature of existence. One of the characteristic features of globalization is the interaction of individuals as well as civilizations. A special status is being acquired by intercivilizational relations, the basis of which is intercultural communication, as far as the people’s needs of cultural understanding, desire to know the inner world of each other lead to the communication processes intensification that become systematic. Only by finding consensus mankind can solve global problems and be protected from self-destruction.

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Scott, Kirsten. "Pidgin plait : fashioning cross-cultural communication through craft." Thesis, Royal College of Art, 2012. http://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/1152/.

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Through this research, I examine how new, natural, socially and environmentally sustainable materials for western couture millinery may be sourced from a group of marginalized women in south-eastern Uganda, underlining the continued relevance of craft as a mode of production that is both flexible and inclusive. Post-colonial, western perceptions of ‘African’ aesthetics are deconstructed and reconstructed through plaited, palm leaf braids that reflect the irregular surface texture found in traditional African artefacts. These create both a metaphorical and visual ‘pidgin’ language that holds meaning for craftspeople in the developed world as well as for the makers. In the process, questions have been asked about western requirements for product uniformity and how the ‘hand of the maker’ - as signified by irregularity – may be positioned in the markets of industrialized and post-industrialized societies. By creating a product with the potential for longevity and versatility, I have attempted to minimize some problems inherent in sourcing from small-scale craft development projects. The research has been practice-led and is supported by this written dissertation. My own craft practice as a millinery designer and field trips to Uganda - in order to establish a working relationship with the makers, understand their circumstances and to develop the Pidgin Plaits - has been at the core of a process of exchange. Cultural and industrial networks have also been developed in Uganda that may support the longer-term sustainability of the project. Through my research, I identify the considerations confronting the designer seeking to establish such a project and explore the multiple social, cultural and economic factors that impact upon the makers in Uganda,in a project with the potential to transform lives and cultures.

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Nesterenko, I. A. "Means of cross-cultural communication in globalized world." Thesis, Sumy State University, 2016. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/49277.

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Yevtushenko, A. "The impact of globalization on cross-cultural communication." Thesis, Sumy State University, 2016. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/49038.

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Nowadays, in times of maintaining economic contacts with the world market there is an increasing need to understand each other through cross-cultural communication. The effect of culture on international businessmen ventures is multifaceted. Cultural differences deeply affects market behavior. International marketers, therefore, need to be as familiar as possible with the cultural traits of any country they want to do business with. These differences require international businessmen to have good analytical abilities and sound business acumen to make viable decisions and operate successfully. Practically all business decisions are culture-bound.

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Frampton, Anthony. "Cross-Border Film Production: The Neoliberal Recolonization of an Exotic Island by Hollywood Pirates." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1394999350.

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Castellanos, de Varona Maria Elena. "Cross-cultural training program." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), access this title online, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.2986/tren.108-0017.

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Rosén, Anton, and Charlotte Hamrin. "Battle of Recruitment : A Comparative Study of German and Swedish Militaries’ Recruitment Films." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för informatik och media, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-414479.

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Studien syftade till att undersöka skillnader i framställning i två militära rekryteringsfilmer från Tyskland och Sverige. Syftet uppfylls genom multimodala analyser av filmerna och genom en fokusgruppsintervju beståendes av tyska och svenska studenter. I den multimodala analysen kartlades relevanta meningsbärande modaliteter för att ta reda på hur organisationerna framställer sig själva i filmerna. Fokusgruppsintervjun gav underlag till en kvalitativ innehållsanalys där publikens tolkning av filmerna kartlades med ett särskilt fokus på hur kultur har för betydelse för tolkningen. Studiens teoretiska bakgrund utgörs dels av Althussers teori kring ideologier och statliga anordningar och interpellationskonceptet som det vidareutvecklas av Judith Williamson. För tolkning av fokusgruppsintervjun applicerades Stuart Halls teori om Encoding/Decoding och Kim Schröders multidimensionella mottagarmodell. Studien kommer fram till att filmerna syftar till att interpellera, tilltala, publiken på skilda vis vilket leder till att två olika ideologier reproduceras. Innehållsanalysen av fokusintervjun pekade på att den kulturella bakgrunden kan vara en central faktor som förklarar varför filmerna tolkades olika av deltagarna. Ur ett samhälleligt perspektiv är studien relevant då den påtalar militära organisationers reproduktiva makt över ideologier i samhället. Förslagsvis kan framtida forskning undersöka kulturens roll för avkodning av militära rekryteringsfilmer på en mer detaljerad nivå. Till exempel skillnader i mottagande mellan landsorts- och stadsbefolkning. Studiens begränsningar utgörs främst av den korta tidsram inom vilken den genomförts och bristen på triangulering av data

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Chan, Iut Va. "Cross-cultural communication in official travel brochures of Macao." Thesis, University of Macau, 2005. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b1636338.

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Hahn, Geoffrey W. "Cross-cultural partnerships characterized by grace." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2007. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p090-0343.

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Matthews, Christopher J. "Mobilizing Spanish believers for cross-cultural ministry." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2005. http://www.tren.com.

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Seay, Frederick Newsome. "Cross cultural preaching a guide for pastors /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1998. http://www.tren.com.

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Wiseman, L. Kate. "E-quipped to serve : delivering holistic Christian mission training through e-learning." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2015. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/19687.

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Developments in Information and Communication Technologies are rapidly breaking down the barriers of time and place that may have previously limited learning to those able to access campus-based programmes. Distance learning, or e-learning, offers exciting opportunities to cross cultural borders and open up the world of education in ways inconceivable even a few years ago. This study considered how e-learning can be used to effectively deliver training to those involved in Christian mission work. Holistic mission training aims to equip the whole person head, heart and hands for Christian service, especially in cross-cultural contexts. Particularly in the Western world, this training has traditionally taken place within face-to-face learning communities, with e-learning s place as a delivery mode being a matter for debate. The research set out to identify and define the key criteria required for the effective delivery of holistic mission training through e-learning and conceptualise those criteria within a framework. A multimethod research design was adopted combining qualitative and quantitative data collection techniques. A systematic literature review was carried out to identify and define the key criteria for effective mission training and effective e-learning and the main challenges in delivering mission training through e-learning, along with potential solutions. Further criteria were found through action research to develop and evaluate a programme of holistic mission training delivered through e-learning. The study contributes to knowledge by identifying for the first time the elements, factors and conditions that can enable holistic mission training to be delivered effectively through e-learning and setting them within a framework to facilitate the development and evaluation of e-learning programmes. The findings highlight principles applicable to different learning situations, cultures and technologies and are largely transferable to other disciplines.

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Long, Charles Alexander. "Cross-cultural communication of the gospel through sports (specifically soccer)." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1985. http://www.tren.com.

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Ruiz, Alvarez Juan Manuel. "Effectiveness of values communication through cross-cultural corporate symbol design." [Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University], 2008.

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Onkhaw, Yata, and Natalia Fedorova. "Cross-cultural Comunication in International Organizations." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för ekonomisk och industriell utveckling, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-159679.

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Problem: While the multinational teams consisting of members from different nationalities,backgrounds and cultures have advantages of diversity in the workplace, the differencesbetween team members can also pose the challenges. Our study focuses on InformationTechnology (IT) project teams in organizations located in Sweden. The rapid growth oftechnology and IT sector, increasing demand in IT professionals, and the knowledge ofwriting universal code allow people to work internationally regardless of citizenship.Therefore, the workforce in the IT sector is rapidly growing and diversifying — it ischaracterized by teams consisting of different nationalities. However, these differences incultures, languages and nationalities can complicate the communication processes betweenthe team members. Therefore, efficient cross-cultural communication within a team isessential for team collaboration and performance. Purpose: The study aims to find the significant issues in the process of adaptation to the newculturally diverse environment faced by immigrant professionals in IT project teams. Thestudy mainly focuses on an individual level, consequently expanding it to a collective level,as the related challenges refer to collaboration among the team members. Method: The study was conducted by interviewing immigrant professionals who have beenworking in IT project teams in the companies, located in Sweden. The participants belong tosix different nationalities and have worked in Sweden for approximately 2-8 years. They areall male aged between 30-33 years old. After the interviews, we can present findings, whichdemonstrate the points of similarity and difference. Conclusion: Technology, which is a significant factor in IT projects, constantly changes, andtherefore, IT project teams that work with innovation require high adaptability to explore newopportunities. That makes effective coordination and communication essential. In theculturally diverse team, managers should manage global mindset and cultural intelligence forindividuals to help team members in adaptation process. Cross-cultural training should beprovided to the migrant professionals in the team to avoid miscommunication based oncultural differences, hence overcoming challenges.

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Hongning, Sun, and Liu Liu. "Cross-cultural communication : With a focus on Swedish and Chinese employees." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Fakulteten för ekonomi, kommunikation och IT, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-14683.

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Chan, Yan-chuen, and 陳仁川. "Cross-cultural communication in a Japanese multinational company in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2002. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B42577032.

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Junker, Nicklas. "Professional Relationships in a Bilateral Context : A Cross-Cultural Communication Study." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för Asien-, Mellanöstern- och Turkietstudier, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-157938.

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The purpose of this paper is to study cross-cultural communication from a Chinese perspective. Professional relationships between the West and China have become pivotal in the political, economic, and cultural domains. It is, therefore, of importance to understand and make use of different communication practices in a bilateral context. This research draws upon studies in the field of sociolinguistics and the material consists of Chinese papers and journals as well as interviews and questionnaires. The results show that the differences in communication practices from a Chinese perspective are considered significant in terms of certain aspects; the reasons at large being argued as cultural and societal. The results furthermore show that direct communication style is regarded as confrontational and emotionless, the strong emphasis on the individual is seen as rude and impolite and the Western concept of negative face is not applicable to Chinese conditions. Factors as high and low context, collectivism and individualism, direct and indirect communication style as well as face is of great importance to better understand and avoid pragmatic failures regarding professional relationships in a bilateral context.
本文的目的在于从中文的视角来研究跨文化交际。中瑞双边关系在政治、经济和文化等领域都十分关键。因此，在中瑞双边语境下，正确理解和应用不同的交际习俗也变得非常重要。本文通过总结社会语言学领域的研究成果，参考中文报刊杂志的语言材料，结合问卷和访谈，得出了以下结论:中瑞交际习俗的差异在某些特定方面影响显著，其原因在于文化和社会方面。在中文的视角下，直接交际的交际风格被认为是具对抗性的和缺乏情感的，而在西方文化中，“面子”的贬义概念并不适用于中国的情况。在中瑞双边语境下，正确理解高语境和低语境、集体主义和个人主义、直接交际风格和间接交际风格等因素对于更好地理解双边关系、避免语用失误有着极其重要的意义。

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ALHAJJI, ALI A. "“The Reliability of Cross-Cultural Communication in Contemporary Anglophone Arab Writing”." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1531502012291.

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Taylor, Paul S. "The language of business interviewing: a study in cross-cultural communication." Thesis, Aston University, 1989. http://publications.aston.ac.uk/10281/.

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The study examines the concept of cultural determinism in relation to the business interview, analysing differences in language use between English, French and West German native speakers. The approach is multi- and inter-disciplinary combining linguistic and business research methodologies. An analytical model based on pragmatic and speech act theory is developed to analyse language use in telephone market research interviews. The model aims to evaluate behavioural differences between English, French and West German respondents in the interview situation. The empirical research is based on a telephone survey of industrial managers, conducted in the three countries in the national language of each country. The telephone interviews are transcribed and compared across languages to discover how managers from each country use different language functions to reply to questions and requests. These differences are assessed in terms of specific cultural parameters: politeness, self-assuredness and fullness of response. Empirical and descriptive studies of national character are compared with the survey results, providing the basis for an evaluation of the relationship between management culture and national culture on a contrastive and comparative cross-cultural basis. The project conclusions focus on the implications of the findings both for business interviewing and for language teaching.

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Walker, Rosemary Elizabeth. "The communication of a cross-cultural missionary vision to national churches." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1993. http://www.tren.com.

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Chan, Yan-chuen. "Cross-cultural communication in a Japanese multinational company in Hong Kong." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2002. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B42577032.

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Zheng, Yan. "Strategies for Cross-Cultural Physician-Patient Communication: A Case of International Patients in a Cultural Competency Laboratory." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1373634504.

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Crutcher, Betty Neal. "Cross-Cultural Mentoring: An Examination of the Perspectives of Mentors." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1151683574.

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Wilson, Fred A. "A new paradigm for cross-cultural missions." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1994. http://www.tren.com.

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Cortez, Mario Martin. "Cross cultural relations in law enforcement." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1998. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1505.

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Cutler, Bob D. (Bob Dean). "International advertising: a content analysis of cross-cultural differences." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1991. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc332550/.

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This study addresses the question of cross-country standardization of advertising by identifying existing cross-national differences in magazine advertisements. A content analysis of 1,983 advertisements in business, women's and general interest magazines was performed. The sample included 1989 and 1990 magazine issues from the United States, United Kingdom, France, India and South Korea.

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Chatani, Kaoru. "Creating comfort : social support communication and cross-cultural adaptation of sojourner women /." The Ohio State University, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu148639916010463.

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SCHLESSMAN-FROST, AMY C. "CROSS-CULTURAL COVENTURING: A MODEL, TAXONOMY, AND SOME COMPUTER IMPLICATIONS." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/184119.

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Both the public and private sectors currently encounter the telescoping urgency for effective cross-cultural coventuring in business, educational and personal arenas. Existing descriptive models for organizing cultural information are either simplistic and superficial or so complex as to be inaccessible or overwhelm the user. This study uses Saunders' theory of model construction as an informing hypothesis to develop a model for cross-cultural coventuring. An integral part of this conception is a definition of culture which uses Villemain's insightful concept of qualitative meaning. Integrating this type of meaning within Saunders' Inquiry Cube allows for categories through which even the most subtle and unarticulated variables making up the human enterprise and the value base of those cherished and celebrated human ideals can be sorted, classified, and set into a taxonomic design. This hierarchical pattern provides direction and parameters for greater cross-cultural exploration. The methodological sequence of the Cultural Inquiry Cube is further translated to a psychological sequence which is more readily comprehensible to the learner. The greatest potential for widespread use of this model seems to be in microcomputer applications. Compact disc technology including CD-ROM and CD-I promises accessibility not possible heretofore.

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Qin, Xizhen. "Towards Understanding Misunderstanding in Cross-Cultural Communication: The Case of American Learners of Chinese Communicating With Chinese People in Chinese Language." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1299607062.

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Vasquez, Elias Inez. "MEASURING THE NEEDS OF HISPANIC PARENTS OF HIGH RISK NEWBORNS (NURSING, CROSS-CULTURAL, COMMUNICATION)." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/276445.

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HOLLINGSWORTH, DIANA MORENO. "THE INTERVIEW: A CROSS-CULTURAL MODEL, STRATEGIES AND EVALUATIVE MEASURES." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/184112.

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The rapid telescoping of the need to communicate cross-culturally in an ever widening range of contexts sets the basic circumstances for this study. Private and public sector interviewing become more important as cultural and cross-cultural factors emerge in coventuring enterprises. Standard interviewing programs and procedures do not usually focus on cross-cultural variables. A model is necessary through which to orchestrate the interview in a generic form and into which substantive illustrations for cross-cultural interviews can be placed. The Cube model designed by Dr. T. Frank Saunders, in his Double Think book, was adapted to this purpose and provides a comprehensive and exhaustive format for this study. The advent of CD ROM, high storage and easy retrieval computer technology, makes the design presented here an effective and efficient system for the collection and collation of demographic and ethnographic data. The Cube model and procedures set forth in this study should facilitate the data collection and development of an interview manual for cross-cultural interviewing.

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Lindborg, Alexander, and Anna-Carin Ohlsson. "Cross-cultural business negotiations : how cultural intelligence influences the business negotiation process." Thesis, Kristianstad University College, School of Health and Society, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-5833.

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Over the last 30 years, technology has made it possible for people to travel to other cultures in a cheaper and more efficient way. The increased traveling has made it possible for an increase in trade and as the trade flourishes the need for people that can handle the differences between the cultures in the world increase. Some people handle cross-cultural negotiations better than others; we want to know how Cultural Intelligence influences The Business Negotiation Process.

To find out how Cultural Intelligence influences The Business Negotiation Process we choose to conduct qualitative interviews with a few Swedish companies that have experiences of cross-cultural negotiations with China.

The findings indicate that Cultural Intelligence influences The Business Negotiation Process by different factors such as engagement, communication and understanding. The greater engagement and understanding the negotiator has of the different parts the more likely it is that the business negotiation process will have a positive outcome.

We studied as much literature as we could find about cultural intelligence and the business negotiation process. Out of our findings, we build a model, and this gave the opportunity to test the different parts of the model in our research.

Our contributions to the field are foremost the discovery of the two new dimensions: Structure and Power Dependency that can be added to both Cultural intelligence and The Business Negotiation Process. In future research, these two dimensions can be further researched and developed. In our research, statements from our respondents create a small practical guideline for cross-cultural business negotiations with China. The negotiators might have use for this guideline when negotiating with Chinese companies.

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