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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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Conversation across cultures

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define a set of six frames that are useful for orienting work in the anthropology of language, and qualitatively distinguished in terms of the different types of underlying processes and causal-conditional mechanisms that define them.
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Cultural determinants of email communication styles

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated whether the concept of culture can explain cultural differences in IT consulting and services professionals from various cultural backgrounds, based on a sample of 234 IT consultants and service providers from various cultures.
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The Evolution of English as the Business Lingua Franca: Signs of Convergence in Chinese and Finnish Professional Communication

TL;DR: This article examined the indirectness of Chinese communication with Finnish and Chinese business professionals and questioned the conventional view of indirectness in Chinese communication, drawing on qualitative interviews with Finnish business professionals, they examined the e...
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Emergent Patterns of Switching Behaviors and Intercultural Communication Styles of Global Virtual Teams During Distributed Decision Making

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors applied Hall's (1976) high context vs. low context theoretical lens to a corpus of archival online messages generated by the United Nation World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) Civil Society.
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Analysis of factors affecting project communications with a hybrid DEMATEL-ISM approach (A case study in Iran).

TL;DR: The present study is conducted to help clarify the views of the organization's managers and project managers on project communications, and to identify factors affecting it and how they effectively communicate to successfully accomplish the projects.
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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.