Question: Analyse in detail what are the behavioural practices affecting international business. Explain the right strategy that you can adapt when dealing with cultural differences. (Hint: make specific reference to Japanese culture, European culture and Arabic culture)
International business refers to commercial activities performed to encourage the transfer of resources, people, commodities, technologies, services and ideas through national boundaries. Basically international business occurs with many different styles, from the flow of goods from one country to another by exporting and trade and also contractual agreements giving firms in other nation’s legal permission to use products, services and processes from foreign nations. This
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Development of a country has been developed based on the classification of contexts highest and the lowest, which is focused on the importance of the cultural context. This to some extent has created a cultural group that can facilitate things are difficult in doing business internationally. The researchers also found that many countries already share the same attitude towards the role of employment, job satisfaction and working aspects related to the daily lives of others and also frequently make can form a state within cultural groups that share the same language. Researchers pioneer "Geert Hofstede," has identified five basic dimensions of culture, which is an individual that may differ in terms of social orientation, the orientation of power, uncertainty orientation, goal orientation and orientation time. These differences affect the conduct of business in different ways and often lead to misunderstandings in cultural …show more content…
As for example, Japanese are one of the best culture that company from other country should follow while doing a business. Japanese culture, they charged, was organized to promote economic goals and thus gave the Japanese an unfair advantage in international competition but the culture values allowed the Japanese to be. As we know, Japanese are one of the country that really take serious on timing. Most of the company in Japan, time are the most important that they should follow in order to increase their business sales or success. Workers attitude such an importance permitted to works with Japanese company or wanted to make any deal with them. All their workers basically doing their work or even go to the meeting and meet client on time, this attitude practice in order to do their best for a company. Frequently, Japanese culture when they do a meeting with employees or meets new client, they prefer prompt beginnings and endings plus do a schedule breaks. Japanese’s people really take this matter serious when during a meeting or anything that related to their work. For example, when they run a meeting, they usually deal with one agenda item at a time and also rely on specific, detailed, and explicit communication in order to makes things clear. Japanese people also prefer to talk in sequence as in their plan because as we
Introduction Japan as business destination This report is about the business cultural analysis of Japan. The Japanese culture is very complex, they have seven major elements of their cultural are their communication, languages, religion, ethics, attitudes, manners and social structures. If we wish to conduct a business in Japan, we must understand what the major elements of the Japanese culture. We also need to know on how the Japanese conduct their business.
It is vital to have clear, concise expectations and maintain order, if not it could cost
Postmodernism is said to be culture increasingly dominated by space and spatial logic (Smart, 1993). A cultural configuration which is constituted in and through complete relationships with a new generation of technologies which themselves are articulated with emergence of a new global economic formation (Smart, 1993). According to Bradlely (1997) cited in Thompson& McHugh (2009) “In contemporary economy, an increasing number of work have become feminized. Women have displaced men in labor market”.
INTRODUCTION Through the story of coming of a Japanese car making firm Assan Motors to the American town of Hadleyville, Ron Howard’s movie Gung Ho beautifully portrays how businesses are affected when people from different cultures come together to work as a team. Hunt Stevenson, played by Keaston, entices Assan Motors to Hadleyville where he is offered the position of ‘employee liaison in the joint venture. But soon, internal conflicts begin as both the Japanese and the Americans had very different styles of operation, which were mainly due to the differences in their cultural values. HOFSTEDE DIMENSIONS OF NATIONAL CULTURE