Global Trends in Managing Cultural Diversity

Paper considers in detail the issue of multicultural urban business environment in the context of managing cross-cultural problems within globalization. When people try to accept and respect different cultures, they will gain new opportunities and experiences. One of the most effective tools is tolerant communication leading to understanding and acceptance of cultural diversity. In this research, we study the contemporary concept of urban business environment as a set of external and internal factors influencing business development in the framework of urban infrastructure. The authors provide their own definition of the concept of globalization and also describe the key global trends, including globalization of human capital under the conditions of demographic and cultural diversity. The work is also aimed to detect how multiculture affects urban business environment in part of finding managerial solutions and countermeasures to overcome the major cross-cultural challenges.

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Multicultural Urban Business Environment

Migration and Urbanization - Advances in Finance, Accounting, and Economics ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-0111-5.ch012 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 219-240

Author(s):

Irina Onyusheva ◽

Lalita Thammashote ◽

Jatuporn Thongaim

Keyword(s):

Cultural Diversity ◽

Business Environment ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Internal Factors ◽

Global Trends ◽

Cultural Challenges ◽

Business Environments ◽

Urban Business ◽

Definition Of ◽

Different Cultures

This chapter considers in detail the issue of multicultural urban business environments in the context of managing cross-cultural problems within globalization. When people try to accept and respect different cultures, they will gain new opportunities and experiences. One of the most effective tools is tolerant communication leading to understanding and acceptance of cultural diversity. In this research, we study the contemporary concept of urban business environments as a set of external and internal factors influencing business development in the framework of an urban infrastructure. The authors provide their own definition of the concept of globalization and also describe the key global trends, including globalization of human capital under the conditions of demographic and cultural diversity. The work is also aimed to detect how multiculture affects urban business environment in part of finding managerial solutions and countermeasures to overcome the major cross-cultural challenges.

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Glocal architecture

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10.51461/projectbaikal.69.1840 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 16-23

Author(s):

Konstantin Lidin

Keyword(s):

Urban Planning ◽

Cultural Diversity ◽

Cultural Nationalism ◽

Local Features ◽

Information Space ◽

Global Information ◽

Cultural Characteristics ◽

Global Trends ◽

The Given

The article examines the concept of glocality in relation to architecture and urban planning. The notion of glocality is proposed as an embodiment of global trends in local forms, taking into account the historical, geographical and cultural characteristics of the given chronotope. The deviation of the balance towards globality leads to unification, erasure of local features and loss of cultural diversity. On the contrary, the predominance of the local aspect leads to "cultural nationalism", separation from the global information space and artistic barrenness.

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