Essays about: "on cultural differences"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 854 essays containing the words on cultural differences.

  1. 11. Navigating the Happiness Economics Landscape: Mapping the Influences on Life Satisfaction and Possible Interventions

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Klendeta Bivolaku; Linn Hellqvist; [2023-06-29]
    Keywords : Happiness Economics; Personality traits; Life satisfaction; World Bank’s STEP survey; WVS; Double-lasso; Forward selection;

    Abstract : This study explores factors that influence subjective well-being in low- and middle-income countries by analysing unique individual- and country-level data. The study focuses on several unexplored determinants including personality traits, economic shocks and cultural differences. READ MORE

  2. 12. A comparative study: How are European fast-fashion and high-end fashion brands adapting their marketing strategy for the Japanese market?

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Amanda Hansson; Tobias Stenström; [2023-06-28]
    Keywords : : luxury fashion; budget fashion; Japanese fashion; marketing mix; Japanese culture; consumer behavior;

    Abstract : The study investigated how European fashion brands adapt their marketing strategies to the Japanese market. The culture in Japan differs from Europe, in which advertisements, commercials and other promotional tools risk getting misinterpreted or perceived as offensive. READ MORE

  3. 13. GOVERNANCE BEYOND BORDERS The Extraterritorial Reach of OECD National Contact Points for Responsible Business Conduct

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Mirja Sund; [2023-06-20]
    Keywords : Business and human rights; Non-judicial mechanisms; Extraterritoriality; OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises; OECD National Contact Points;

    Abstract : As increasingly powerful actors in a globalised world, multinational corporations are often able to evade responsibility for human rights violations and other misconduct occurring in their own operations or supply chains. Since courts face limitations when attempting to exert jurisdiction outside of their state territories, state-based non-judicial mechanisms such as the OECD National Contact Points (NCPs) have been established to fill this gap by mediating between corporations and victims of corporate human rights abuses with the aim of providing remedy to the latter. READ MORE

  4. 14. PRAGMATIC COMPETENCE: REFUSAL SPEECH ACT BY IRANIAN STUDENTS IN SWEDEN

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Kazhal Shatery; [2023-04-19]
    Keywords : English; culture; speech act of refusal; pragmatic; pragmalinguistics and sociopragmatics; politeness theory; refusal strategies;

    Abstract : Understanding cross-cultural differences plays a crucial role in communication and successful cross-cultural communications depends on various factors such as pragmalinguistics and sociopragmatics. Many researchers focus more on the aspect of pragmatics such as speech acts. The present study is a contrastive study of refusal speech act. READ MORE

  5. 15. NAVIGATING WORKPLACE CONFLICT A case study of local and foreign employees at an international company in Tanzania

    University essay from Institutionen för tillämpad informationsteknologi

    Author : Suzana Aroko; [2023-02-01]
    Keywords : Intercultural conflict; workplace conflict; culture; conflict management styles; Tanzania; Kenya; Germany; United States of America;

    Abstract : In the era of global trade and professional ties across borders, understanding how individuals from diverse contexts frame and respond to workplace conflict is critically important. Researchers have found various variables with some correlation to preferred conflict management style. READ MORE