Managing Cultural Differences

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The book discusses some of the problems faced during cross-cultural communications during business negotiations. It discusses key areas where communication between cultures differ and highlights some of the impacts on online communications. The book goes on to discuss the traditions and backgrounds of many countries and provides insight into how business pursuits in these countries should be tackled.

Some assumptions of how the internet solves cultural difference problems discussed in the book are as follows:

1. The Internet removes cultural differences.

2. The Internet is a direct access to cultural differences.

3. Communication over the Internet is similar to communication in other forms.

4. Computer-mediated communication influences cultural and genre-related communication.

The book discusses how the first three points are hard to prove, as communication on the internet is usually organised into specific genres within cultural groups. This shows that a person believing the first three statements will not realise that cultural differences do in fact exist on the internet and may misread certain situations as a result.

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Monash Library Details

 * Title: Managing cultural differences
 * Author: Robert T. Moran 1938- author.
 * Neil R. Abramson 1953- author.; Sarah V Moran (Sarah Virgilia), 1972- author.; Philip R Harris (Philip Robert), 1926-; Ebooks Corporation
 * Subjects: International business enterprises -- Management; Management -- Cross-cultural studies; Acculturation;Cross-cultural studies
 * Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge
 * Date: 2014
 * Edition: Ninth edition.
 * Format: 1 online resource.
 * Language: English
 * Identifier: ISBN: 1317975650 (electronic bk.) ;ISBN: 9781317975656 (electronic bk.)