Japan does business in a wide range of industries and the Japanese are open to receiving imported products. ... Why is Japan so successful in their business endeavors? ... The first few minutes of a business meeting can be very crucial to a company. ... As you can already tell, a culture with devotion such as this is bound to be fruitful in business. ... Later we will see how all of these cultural aspects affect business communications in Japan. ...

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I will look at these countries and make not only a comparison based on cultures, but also comparisons from a business perspective. ... Their scholastic goals may be to finish a secondary education, or to attend a university and start their own business. Although not as focused solely on achievement as Euro-Americans, Vietnamese do have high hopes in scholastic and business arenas. ... Business Perspective Mary Kay-Dallas, Texas- beauty products Company's mission- Mary Kay's mission is to enrich women's lives. ... Ayurveda does have a diversity and opportunity statemen...

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The understanding of cultural boundedness of business (i.e., the willingness of a culture to relinquish its traditional methods and adopt new ones) is not only imperative for international marketing effectiveness but also for marketing to ethnic populations domestically (Reese 1998). ... It makes the Chinese State-owned retail business far from being profitable let alone the foreign commercial institutions. ... At the same time these three formats of marketing provide more opportunities for the marketers in the practice. ... The globalization of the economic environment had made it increasing...

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In today's society organizational functions are used by businesses in order to perform and provide services to meet their consumers " needs. ... As a small business the success depends completely upon the individuals employed, and the culture that they promote. ... Piper's Pub has a rather unique culture relative to the majority of other businesses in Antigonish. ... This may be a result of managerial focus on the evening hours as they believe this is a more critical aspect of their business and this evening culture of the Pub. ... The cultural transformation is very much the found...

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National Advertisers, big business, governments, working class people and sports enthusiasts in Canada all revel in the brilliance of this modest trophy, and the way it encompasses Canadian dreams and societies struggles by just being there. ... Teams who at best are just a key cog in a privately owned business whose products are accessible to a very large number of people. ... The idea of Mass culture is generally associated with the low because it is a market generated culture surviving only because of profit margins in big business as we have seen with companies such as the American pow...

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Immigrants, particularly low-education immigrants (many of whom are unauthorized), are more responsive than natives to the business cycle" (Orrenius 97). ... In E Pluribus Unum: Diversity and Community in the Twenty- first Century The 2006 Johan Skytte Prize Lecture, Robert argues: Many (though not all) of the scores of studies of collective creativity in work groups (in business, education and so on) find that diversity fosters creativity (Webber & Donahue 2001;O'Reilly et al. 1997; Williams & O'Reilly 1998). ...

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On the other hand, China, the fastest growing market in the world, is one of the "must" markets for global business leaders. ... The concept of "culture- and business as been extensively researched, both how it affects interpersonal communication, as well as in more general terms: such as culture influences business practices, consumer choice and behavior (Hofstede, 1991; 1998; Traompenaars and Hampden-Turner, 1993, 1997). Two models have been extensively used in the business world: Hofstede's 5 Dimensions and Hall's perception of time and high-context/ low-context models. ...

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The company was founded in 1870 by Zalmon Gilbert Simmons as a family business. Innovation had always been a most important driving force in the history of Simmons's business. ... After 1978, Simmons stopped being a family-run business and it changed many hands. ... On the other hand, Eitel had all of his experience in the floor-covering business and he had no bedding industry involvement. ... Simmons Culture Before Eitel, the company had four core values highlighting history, innovation, opportunity, and customers. ...

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In the United States there are many people who know how to speak different languages because they emigrated from different countries. Language is the basis of any culture, so if you take away the language you take away the culture. It is this loss of language that has taken today's generations from ...

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They concentrate in one place and continuously work hard to adjust to the new world, to make the most out the opportunities given to them, and to educate their children and have a better life themselves. ... Beyond the commercial area, Little Saigon also a center of religious life as well as ceremonial events that offer Vietnamese American an opportunity to reconnect, to share and to express ...

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Both consumer behaviour and business practices are performed to a large extent by the culture within which they take place. ... In contrast, successful marketers should also seek out cultural similarities in order to identify opportunities to implement a modified standardized marketing mix. To be able to skillfully manipulate these similarities and differences in the worldwide marketplaces is one of the most important marketing strategies for businesses in the 21st Century. ... First, culture defines acceptable purchasing and product-use behavior for both consumers and business. ...

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