Absorptive capacity and national culture have been two major constructs in management and organisation research during the past two decades. However, there have been no endeavours to develop an integrative perspective. By means of a literature analysis, the present research develops an integrative model, building upon dynamic capabilities view and institutional theory. Propositions suggest that the adoption and the implementation of absorptive capacity are subject to national culture.
...Although there is no agreedupon definition (Liao, Welsch, & Stoica, 2003), it is widely accep... (with the opposite pole of collectivism) refers to the way people are integrated in their ...
Drawing upon existing literature, this paper briefly discusses aspects of conspicuous consumption. Analysis of the construct has been done in the perspective of changing capitalist structure and dominating socio-philosophical ideologies, especially postmodernism. Effort has been made to extend the original concept and propose necessary refinement and integration of relevant concepts to enable a meaningful, holistic, and contemporary interpretation of the said construct. This paper examines different aspects of consumer behavior, helps to generate some important directions for future research in the field, and also discusses these issues in the context of the transitional socio-economic background of India.
... effort in establishing a new working definition of conspicuous consumption, involving additional p... of Opposites." In Individualism and Collectivism: Theory, Methods, and Applications . Eds. U. Kim, ...
... site of recurring struggles over the definition of eligible employees, specification of bargaining... or individualistic--the language of collectivism/labour/public utility is missing. "Quality life-lo...
This paper examines how adolescents' values may be shaped by the immediate social context with special reference to social class and rural urban background. The locus of study is Taiwan, a society with drastically declining birth rates in recent years. It is hypothesized that the value adolescents place on having children (or the positive value) and not having children (or the negative value) are accounted for by individual, familial and social contextual factors. Data are taken from an island-wide sample of first-year senior high students. A field survey was administered from winter of 2005 to spring of 2006. The analysis shows that three dimensions can be extracted from both positive and negative values toward having children: with emotional value rated the most important, followed by...
...Using definitions above, three categories of students are distinguis...b. Individualism/Collectivism - The individual psychological orientation is base...
This paper aims to explore communication deviances and strategies in the negotiation discourse of Malaysian-Australian business encounters, from both a linguistic and non-linguistic perspective. Specifically, it sees miscommunications/deviances as factors that may hinder the business communication process and prevent the negotiators from achieving their objectives. The study also focuses on strategies, or those discourse skills which promote successful business Malaysia-Australia negotiation.
...His definition of commissives refers to those speech acts such as...These aspects include collectivism, the importance of social relationships, face, obl...
The effectiveness of the capital maintenance concept that become enshrined in British companies legislation during the 19th century was almost immediately undermined when companies were permitted to pay dividends from circulating capital surpluses, even though overall there were losses of total invested capital. It is generally accepted that the British courts were conscious not to limit management's capacity to innovate and operate their businesses in good faith, and to maximize the capacity of their entities to distribute dividends to shareholders now and in the future. Nevertheless, it is unclear why at the time some accounting methods were accepted as being satisfactory in certain situations but not in others. It is argued that the British judges adhered to a number of complementary...
... until the Companies Act, 1980 that a definition of distributable profits was incorporated into leg...' individualism (1825 to 1868) and collectivism' (1868 to 1900). Company legislation introduced an...
... individualism, hierarchical collectivism, and sectarianism. . The social democratic states ...(The operational definition of what would count as appropriate autonomy, satis...
Children constitute an important target market segment and merit attention from a marketing perspective. The role that children play in making decisions concerning the entire family unit has prompted researchers to direct attention to the study of influence of children. The amount of influence exerted by children varies by product category and stage of the decision making process. For some products, they are active initiators, information seekers, and buyers; whereas for other product categories, they influence purchases made by the parents. The purchasing act is governed by how they have been socialized to act as consumers. Family, peers, and media are key socializing agents for children wherein family-specific characteristics such as parental style, family's Sex Role Orientation (SRO)...
...The most widely used definition of consumer socialization is the one given by Ward... (since both cultures focus on collectivism), but the results contradicted this general belief...
... other hand, conforms to van Waarden's definition of a fragmented or weak state: it has a constituti... over the spectrum from `hierarchical collectivism' to `competitive individualism' (Wildavsky, quoted...
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