A cross-cultural study of co-design: the impact of power distance on group dynamics in Japan

Despite claims that “cinema is dead” or that it only interests nostalgic old-timers, statistics indicate a global increase in theater attendance. Not only is moviegoing still one of the favorite forms of entertainment, but it especially appeals to young people. Moreover, communication research seems to have neglected cinema, but the relationship between modern-day teenagers and the silver screen needs to be observed. This chapter reports the results of a cross-cultural study based on the uses and gratifications paradigm with youngsters from eight European countries. It presents their cinematographic uses and consumption, their motivations for going to the movies, and their preferences and conceptions regarding different movie traditions. The study also performs cross-cultural contrasts to reveal more about the impact of regional, national, and global forces on the psychological relationship between today’s teenagers and cinema.

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The impact of support on growth in teacher-efficacy: a cross-cultural study

International Journal of Educational Management ◽

10.1108/ijem-08-2017-0195 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 33 (4) ◽

pp. 753-767

Author(s):

Tomas Jungert ◽

Rickard Östergren ◽

Nathalie Houlfort ◽

Richard Koestner

Keyword(s):

Teacher Efficacy ◽

Cultural Study ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Organizational Outcomes ◽

School Management ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Content Type ◽

Cross Cultural Study ◽

The Impact

Purpose Perceived support from co-workers and managers is important for many organizational outcomes. However, the benefit of competence support from colleagues and school management on personal teacher efficacy has not been investigated. The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to investigate the impact of competence support from colleagues and the school management on growth in teacher efficacy and second, to investigate cultural differences (Canada and Sweden). Design/methodology/approach The authors administered an inventory measuring support for competence and personal teacher efficacy to over 400 teachers in Canada and Sweden at 27 schools, at two times. Time 1 took place at the first week of a fall semester and Time 2 at the end of the same semester. Findings Structural equation modeling revealed that competence support from colleagues predicted growth in teacher efficacy, whereas competence support from school management did not. No differences in these relations emerged between Canadian and Swedish teachers. Practical implications The findings have implications for how schools organize teachers in teacher teams so that competence support from co-workers is promoted. Originality/value This study is the first cross-cultural study to empirically show that teachers’ self-efficacy is significantly benefitted by competence support from their teacher peers.

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A Cross-Cultural Study on Hedging Devices in Kurdish Conversation

Acta Linguistica Asiatica ◽

10.4312/ala.2.1.73-88 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 73-88 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Biook BEHNAM ◽

Salam KHALILIAQDAM

Keyword(s):

Natural Language ◽

Cultural Study ◽

Spoken Language ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Social Classes ◽

Tape Recording ◽

Spoken Discourse ◽

Know How ◽

Cross Cultural Study ◽

The Impact

Hedges are words whose job is to make things fuzzier or less fuzzy. Truth and falsity are a matter of degree, and hedges make natural language sentences more/less true or more/less false. The purpose of the study is to investigate hedging devices in Kurdish spoken language. The aim is to know how hedging devices are used in Kurdish spoken discourse. Also the researchers are willing to know whether Kurdish speakers use hedging devices to indicate a lack of complete commitment to the truth of the proposition, and a desire not to express the commitment categorically, or to lessen the impact of an utterance. The data needed for the study was collected through observation, tape recording, and interviews. The dialogues of 35 people were recorded by the researchers as well as the researchers have interviewed with 21 people from different social classes.15 classes and meetings which Kurdish language was the means of communication were observed. The research showed that hedging as a mitigating device is extensively employed in different conversations. The study shows that hedging devices have the same roles in Kurdish as they have in English. They are used to reduce the certainty and sureness of the utterances. It indicates that some pragmatic devices modify the epistemic strength of the statement in Kurdish language just as they do in English and Arabic.

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The Impact of Entrepreneurial Orientation on Spin-Offs’ Performance: A Cross-Cultural Study

SAGE Open ◽

10.1177/2158244019865817 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 9 (3) ◽

pp. 215824401986581 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Mariem Khadhraoui ◽

Michel Plaisent ◽

Lassaad Lakhal ◽

Bernard Prosper

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Least Squares ◽

Cultural Study ◽

Entrepreneurial Orientation ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Cross Cultural Study ◽

Three Samples ◽

And Performance ◽

The Impact ◽

The Relationship

Previous studies considered entrepreneurial orientation as a determinant of firms’ growth and performance. In this research, we are interested in spin-offs. Indeed, we aim to study the relationship between their entrepreneurial orientation and their performance. Therefore, we carried out a cross-cultural study in three different countries; Tunisia, Canada, and Morocco. We opted for a personal survey. We addressed our questionnaire to 180 managers of spin-offs and we analyzed the research variables using SPSS 20.00 (Statistical Packages for Social Sciences) and Smart PLS 3 (Partial Least Squares). Our findings highlight a positive correlation between entrepreneurial orientation and performance of spin-offs within the three samples.

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