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Chapter 03
Erin Meyer- How Cultural Differences Affect Business
Differences in Culture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQvqDv4vbEg
• Concept of Culture • Understanding and adapting to the local cultural is important for the
international companies
• Social Structure
o Cross-cultural literacy - an understanding of how cultural
• Religious and Ethical Systems differences across and within nations can affect the way in which
• Language business is practiced
Culture Values
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• A system of values and norms that are shared among a group • Abstract ideas about what a group believes to be good, right, and desirable
of people and that when taken together constitute a design for • Provide the context within which a society's norms are established and
justified.
living
• May include a society's attitudes toward such concepts as individual
freedom, democracy, truth, justice, honesty, loyalty, social obligations,
collective responsibility, the role of women, love, sex, marriage, and so on.
Norms Society
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o All societies are stratified on a hierarchical basis into social o The extent to which individuals can move out of the strata into which
o The degree of mobility between social strata • Significance attached to social strata in business contexts
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