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A Critique of Hall's Contexting Model: A Meta-Analysis of Literature on Intercultural Business and Technical Communication

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In this article, a meta-analysis of 224 intercultural communication documents is presented, based on the model of low-context and high-context cultures, which is one of the dominant theoretical frameworks for interpreting interculture communication.
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Edward Hall's model of low-context and high-context cultures is one of the dominant theoretical frameworks for interpreting intercultural communication. This article reports a meta-analysis of 224 ...

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Humanitarian behavior across high-/low-context cultures: a comparative analysis between Switzerland and Colombia

TL;DR: The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) attempts constantly to motivate its audience through social media to adopt humanitarian attitudes and behaviors as discussed by the authors, however, the results of this communicative attempt varies from region to region.
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Making Excellence a Habit across Intercultural Barriers

Han Yu, +1 more
TL;DR: This chapter contains sections titled: Chapter Synopsis Rising Star First Encounter Pandora's Box More than Language War Within Countdown Acknowledgement Discussion Questions.
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A comparison of Mexican and US American students' perceptions of high-low context business communication style

TL;DR: For instance, the authors found that participants in a study with Mexican and US students reported a similar perception of professional dialogues in a monocultural as well as in an intercultural communication setting, and that shared professional and educational frameworks could override the impact of cultural differences in professional settings.
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Making Sense of Communication and Cultural Differences in the Workplace: The Case of Sino-Scandinavian Collaborations

TL;DR: Vaara et al. as discussed by the authors explored the way Chinese and Scandinavian engineers working together on transnational projects in an international company perceive and make sense of their work collaboration with regards to cultural differences and communication practices.
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TL;DR: A convenient, although not comprehensive, presentation of required sample sizes is providedHere the sample sizes necessary for .80 power to detect effects at these levels are tabled for eight standard statistical tests.
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Culture′s Consequences: International Differences in Work-Related Values

TL;DR: In his book Culture's Consequences, Geert Hofstede proposed four dimensions on which the differences among national cultures can be understood: Individualism, Power Distance, Uncertainty Avoidance and Masculinity as mentioned in this paper.
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Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind

TL;DR: In this article, the differences in the way strategists and their followers think are discussed, and practical solutions for those in business to help solve conflict between different groups are proposed, with a focus on how to find common problems which demand cooperation for the solution of these problems.
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Culture′s Consequences: Comparing Values, Behaviors, Institutions and Organizations Across Nations

TL;DR: In this paper, values and culture data collection, treatment and validation power distance Uncertainty Avoidance Individualism and Collectivism Masculinity and Femininity Long versus Short-Term Orientation Cultures in Organizations Intercultural Encounters Using Culture Dimension Scores in Theory and Research
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Qualitative research & evaluation methods

TL;DR: In this paper, conceptual issues and themes on qualitative research and evaluaton methods including: qualitative data, triangulated inquiry, qualitative inquiry, constructivism, constructionism, complexity (chaos) theory, qualitative designs and data collection, fieldwork strategies, interviewing, tape-recording, ethical issues, analysis, interpretation and reporting, observations vs. perceived impacts and utilisation-focused evaluation reporting.