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What is Culture?
A system of values and norms shared among a group of people and, when taken together, constitute a design for living.
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What is culture?
Culture
Material objects Ideas, values and attitudes Normative or expected patterns of behaviour
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Cultural universals
Economic system Marriage and family system Educational system Social control system Supernatural belief system
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Culture is Dynamic
Cultural Change
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Values:
Social rules and guidelines that prescribe appropriate behaviour in particular situations. Folkways:
Routine conventions of everyday life.
Mores:
Central to functioning of society and its social life.
Abstract ideas about what a group believes to be good, right, and desirable. The bedrock of culture. Have emotional significance.
Freedom.
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Determinants of Culture
Economic Philosophy Education Culture: Norms and Value Systems Political Philosophy
Language
Social Structure
Religion
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Social Structure
Individual
Western
Entrepreneurship
Nonmobile Managers
Lack of Entrepreneurship
Lifetime Employment
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Social Stratification
Typically defined by family background, occupation, and income.
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Religion
Shared
beliefs and rituals concerned with the realm of the sacred. Ethical Systems:
Shapes
attitudes toward work and entrepreneurship and can affect the cost of doing business.
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Worlds Religions
Christian
43% 20% 18%
4%
5%
10%
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Worlds religions
Existed since Hinduism Buddism Confusianism Christianity Islam 2000 B.C. 600 B.C 500 B.C. C 600 A.C.
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Christianity
Protestant Work Ethic and The Spirit of Capitalism. Favors market-based systems. No payment or receipt of interest. Asceticism may have an impact. Caste system plays a role. Little emphasis on entrepreneurial behavior.
Loyalty, reciprocal obligations, and honesty in dealings.
Islam
Hinduism
Buddhism
Confucianism
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Language
Allows
people to communicate. Structures the way the world is perceived. Directs attention to certain features of the world rather than others. Helps define culture. Creates separatist tendencies?
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Spoken Language
5% 4% 3% 62% 20% Other Chinese English Hindi Russian Spanish
6%
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Language dimensions
The
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Nonspoken Language
Nonverbal
cues:
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Education
Formal education supplements family role in teaching values and norms For intl business, it is a determinant of national competitive advantage Medium to learn language, conceptual, and math skills
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Legal systems
Civil/Code law
Common law
Political law
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What is Culture?
A system of values and norms shared among a group of people and, when taken together, constitute a design for living.
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What is culture?
Culture
Material objects Ideas, values and attitudes Normative or expected patterns of behaviour
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Cultural universals
Economic system Marriage and family system Educational system Social control system Supernatural belief system
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Culture is Dynamic
Cultural Change
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Values:
Social rules and guidelines that prescribe appropriate behaviour in particular situations. Folkways:
Routine conventions of everyday life.
Mores:
Central to functioning of society and its social life.
Abstract ideas about what a group believes to be good, right, and desirable. The bedrock of culture. Have emotional significance.
Freedom.
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Determinants of Culture
Economic Philosophy Education Culture: Norms and Value Systems Political Philosophy
Language
Social Structure
Religion
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Social Structure
Individual
Western
Entrepreneurship
Nonmobile Managers
Lack of Entrepreneurship
Lifetime Employment
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Social Stratification
Typically defined by family background, occupation, and income.
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Religion
Shared
beliefs and rituals concerned with the realm of the sacred. Ethical Systems:
Shapes
attitudes toward work and entrepreneurship and can affect the cost of doing business.
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Worlds religions
Existed since Hinduism Buddism Confusianism Christianity Islam 2000 B.C. 600 B.C 500 B.C. C 600 A.C.
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Worlds Religions
Christian
43% 20% 18%
4%
5%
10%
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World religions
Map 3.1
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Christianity
Protestant Work Ethic and The Spirit of Capitalism. Favors market-based systems. No payment or receipt of interest. Asceticism may have an impact. Caste system plays a role. Little emphasis on entrepreneurial behavior.
Loyalty, reciprocal obligations, and honesty in dealings.
Islam
Hinduism
Buddhism
Confucianism
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Language
Allows
people to communicate. Structures the way the world is perceived. Directs attention to certain features of the world rather than others. Helps define culture. Creates separatist tendencies?
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Spoken Language
5% 4% 3% 62% 20% Other Chinese English Hindi Russian Spanish
6%
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Language dimensions
The
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Nonspoken Language
Nonverbal
cues:
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Education
Formal education supplements family role in teaching values and norms For intl business, it is a determinant of national competitive advantage Medium to learn language, conceptual, and math skills
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Education
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Legal systems
Civil/Code law
Common law
Political law
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Legal systems
Contract law Property rights Protection of intellectual property Product safety and liability
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A. Contract law
Role of United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CIGS)
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B. Property rights
A bundle of legal rights over the use to which a resource is put and over the use made of any income from that resource
Property rights can be violated through
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Patent: inventors exclusive rights to manufacture, use, sale of an invention Copyright: same for authors, composers, artists, publishers Trademarks: unique designs and names, often officially registered
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Product safety laws set safety standards for products and manufacturing processes Product liability laws hold the firm and its officers responsible for product safety standards Criminal laws/ civil liability laws
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Legal systems
processes through which laws are enforced & grievances are redressed
home country laws host country laws international Laws and Treaties
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Business culture
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Study (IBM) is a general way to look at differences between cultures 4 dimensions: Power distance. Individualism versus collectivism. Uncertainty avoidance Masculinity versus femininity But: Assumption of one-to-one relationship between culture and nation state Research may be culturally bound Respondents worked within a single company Work is beginning to look dated (1967-1973
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Table 3.1
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Dealfocused cultures <> Relationfocused cultures Informal cultures <> Formal cultures
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Trompenaar (NL)
Larger
findings
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Psychic distance
How
Swedish
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Business ethics
Corporate
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orientation False information Dealing with competitors Gender equality Attitudes to unions and environment Corruption and bribes
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State interventions:
US
Foreign Corrupt Practice Act of 1977 OECD recommendations are expected Sweden/India: Bofors France: Elf
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Ranking
Canada Singapore U.K. Switzerland Australia U.S.A. France Japan Greece China Russia Indonesia Nigeria
Finland
Figure 2.1
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we are superior)
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