International Business Ethnography
Are We Looking for Cultural Differences
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5948077 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yuuki Hara (Hitachi (Japan)), Lynn Shade |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 2018 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 10-22 |
| Publication date | 2018-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference Proceedings (CONFERENCE) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1559-890X • E-ISSN: 1559-8918 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1559-8918.2018.01193 |
| OpenAlex | W2911970960 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 9 |
In international business ethnography, clients and subjects don't share the same background. Without an understanding of the underlying factors affecting the subject's behaviors, data can lead to false home-market based assumptions about cause and effect. Where do we as researchers look to detect meaningful findings in international contexts? Drawing on our decades of international fieldwork, we describe how focusing on culture or cultural differences to interpret differences in workflows and attitudes can sometimes hamper accurate interpretation of observations. We describe through case studies how instead, identifying foundation factors shaping behaviors and mindsets such as market forces, government policy, labour markets, and financial schemas can be the key to insight in international contexts
Business · Ethnography · Foundation (evidence · Government (linguistics · International business · International market · International trade · Interpretation (philosophy · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Subject (documents · Computer Science · International Business and FDI · International Student and Expatriate Challenges · Management and Organizational Studies
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |