Revisiting culture and language in global management teams

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Cohen ◽  
Jane Kassis-Henderson
Keyword(s):  
Global Scale ◽  
Cultural Dimension ◽  
Social Construction Of Reality ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Language Standardization ◽  
Research Fields ◽  
Positive Side ◽  
Narrow View ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Impact

In research on international business (IB) and management, a narrow view of language and culture has given way to a greater understanding of the complexity of the interplay of language- and culture-related issues in today’s world. The “linguistic turn” in the social sciences along with the more recent unravelling of the deterministic cultural dimension has led to reexamining the importance of language and culture in the social construction of reality. The key role played by multicultural, multilingual teams in organizations operating on a global scale has spawned much research on the impact of language and cultural diversity within teams. Some scholars have focused on the negative aspects of diversity implying that language standardization, through the adoption of lingua franca policies and practices, is the most appropriate strategy for collaboration across languages and borders. Others have uncovered the positive side of this diversity; they argue the case for the coexistence of different working languages together with communication practices that facilitate the contextualization necessary for sense-making processes in multilingual teams. This has led a growing number of scholars within different research fields to take the “multilingual turn” exploring novel ideas and concepts emerging around the phenomena of multilingualism, thereby advancing the discussion in IB and management studies. Applying these emerging notions to a study of a multilingual team in an international organization, we question the widely held assumptions about language, culture, and identity and show the need to refresh the way in which these concepts are framed when examining team performance.

scholarly journals Relasi Antara Penggunaan Android dan Perubahan Sosial Perdesaan: Studi Perubahan Sosial di Kabupaten Bogor Jawa Barat

Society ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Iskandar Zulkarnain ◽  
Husaini Husaini ◽  
Khamid Baekhaki ◽  
F. Yoppie Christian
Keyword(s):  
Rural Community ◽  
Family Cohesion ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Cultural Dimension ◽  
Mixed Method Research ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
The Impact

Social changes is all changes on social institutions within community which impacting on its system including values, norms and patern of behaviour between groups in community, technology is one of the cause. Technology of media cq Android pressumed will give impact on traditional rural so-cial system, thus these mixed-method research intended to study how far the impact of the usage of Android on rural social changes. The present of internet followed by the more personalized Android in the rural community has made a transformation on interaction dimension between member of community both in Babakan village as urban-rural, and Petir as rural-village. The ownership and usage of Android between member of community today has various of meanings, whether to build peer-relation, tighten the family cohesion or to support the economic activities. The social change as impact of the usage of Android apparrently only occurs on interaction dimension without changing the structural or the cultural dimension. Research found, the prolonged social norms which has been rooted and maintaned by the community still able to work as social control mechanism, however the research shows the indication that the rationlisation on individual is ongoing, this may more or less loosen the social cohesion of rural community.

scholarly journals Roles and Challenges of Technology in Corporate Social Responsibility

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 5336-5340
Author(s):  
Mohamed Abualhaija DBA
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Atomic Bomb ◽  
Brand Name ◽  
Research Fields ◽  
The Social ◽  
Impact Of Technology ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
The Impact

Many believe that Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is irrelevant and bad for businesses, while others swear of its strategic importance for the overall growth of local and global economies. This paper examines the impact of technology on corporates morals and social responsibility. Companies like GE and Nike direct resources and strategies to strengthen the environment and local and global communities. Through improving education programs and investing in technology, these companies attempt to fulfill their social responsibilities to all communities. Companies use corporate social responsibility to build a reputation and a brand name. Through technology exports, the world’s economy is synchronized. Creating and sharing technology enhances the world’s productivity and economy, mainly because developing countries are incapable of investing much in R&D. As the infusion of technology contributes to the growth of the global economy, the question remains to what degree the technological breakthroughs create ethical and moral concerns when exploring new frontiers, and to what degree scientists consider the social and ethical consequences when testing and investigating. This paper explores some of the ethical, social, and legal circumstances related to different controversial research fields to include creating the atomic bomb, human cloning, and the research of synthetic biology science.  

scholarly journals Impact of student exclusion (including from the SPE) on their digitisation behaviour in social media

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 203-224
Author(s):  
Marcin Prościak ◽  
Beata Prościak
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Special Educational Needs ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Digital Exclusion ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Aim. The aim of this thesis is to present the impact of students exclusion (including SPEs) on their virtual behaviour in social media. Students with no special educational needs and those with SEN were taken into account. The relationship between exclusion of SPE and digitisation exclusion will be indicated . In addition, social exclusion in the family area was included. Methods: The analysis was based on statistical methods, such as: range, standard deviation, variance. Surveys were used. They were conducted on the Internet through the Facebook social portal on a national and global scale. Results: Respondents from around the world feel more excluded by the SPE than respondents in Poland. In contrast, respondents from the SPE use fewer social networking sites than in groups of computer players, both in Poland and worldwide. Conclusions: In Poland, SPE is not a barrier to communication with peers for most respondents, unlike global respondents. Respondents from the SPE spend less time on social portals because it absorbs their time devoted to learning, which can be an indicator of digital exclusion. Cognitive value: The originality of the research is to focus on introducing the global and Polish scale of the problem excluding students from SPE from the social media, which was calculated by the author’s method based on the indicator digital exclusion.

Digitalization as a modeling system of social stratification

2021 ◽  
pp. 46-64
Author(s):  
Valentina Kurganskaya ◽  
Vladimir Dunaev
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Social Construction Of Reality ◽  
Digital Society ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Impact

The article analyzes new forms of social stratification generated by the processes of digitalization of all aspects of modern society. The article describes the ontology, ideology, and mythology of the digital society. The mechanism and immanent logic of the impact of digitalization processes on the social structure of society are analyzed. The article considers the specifics of a number of new social strata that arise as a result of the implementation of digital technologies in the processes of social construction of reality. Various models of social stratification are discussed.

The Copernican Turn in the Study of Religion

2013 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard King
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Critique ◽  
Social Construction Of Reality ◽  
Critical Theories ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cultural Implications ◽  
Theoretical Assumptions ◽  
Feminist Poststructuralist ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
The Comparative Study ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Contemporary theoretical debates within the study of religion reflect the impact of a range of critical theories inspired by feminist, poststructuralist, postcolonial and “queer” perspectives on the field. Much of this work reflects a radicalization of a post-Kantian notion of the social construction of reality. It is argued that such theories represent an unfolding of the social and cultural implications of the Kantian epistemological project and reflects a similar “Copernican Turn” involving the recognition that the object of study—“religion,” is a construct reflecting the methodological and theoretical assumptions of the researcher. The article then offers a postcolonial critique of mainstream “secularist” historiographies of the field and argues for an alternative model for understanding the history and future of the field of the comparative study of religion, grounded in the practice of comparative cultural critique and commentary on dominant models of modernity.

scholarly journals Dynamics of language conflicts in the 21st century

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Modern Language ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
General Scientific ◽  
Language Conflict ◽  
The Impact

Almost in the first quarter of the third millennium, in many countries of the world, there is a progressive dynamics of linguistic conflicts, which sometimes turn into an armed conflict. Of course, language conflicts have a very long history, but their present is even brighter. At the heart of the language conflict, as is known, is linguistic inequality, which is characterized by the status of language. The subject of the study is the impact of the globalization processes of the twenty-first century. on the development of modern language conflicts and the possibility of their settlement. The goal of the work is to reveal the essence of modern language conflicts, to clarify their peculiarities; the study of the dynamics of linguistic conflicts in the XXI century, the possible development and outline ways to solve them. The objective to analyze the dynamics of linguistic conflicts of the XXI century and to determine their possible development, outlining ways to solve contemporary linguistic conflicts. General scientific methods are used: analysis, synthesis, hypothetical method. The following results are obtained: the process of national self-affirmation, the observance of the language and culture of its legal rights must be developed and implemented by the country's elite. This process must be constant and steady; the linguistic conflict, however, is an undesirable phenomenon in the life of society, which is a kind of obstacle in solving the problems of the social life of people of all nationalities. Only non-violent method of overcoming linguistic conflicts will lead to harmonization of society. Linguistic conflict can help in this. Conclusions: a "clearing up" and neutralization of linguistic conflicts can be assisted by a sound linguistic policy and concerted efforts to reconcile all the warring parties, seeking consensus, and most importantly, fair determination of the significance of conflicting languages and equalization of the possibilities of realization in all spheres of life.

scholarly journals The Effectiveness of Facebook as a Marketing Tool (Saudi Arabia case study)

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 1815-1827 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nora Al-Hadban ◽  
Hadeel AL-Ghamdi ◽  
Thekra Al-Hassoun ◽  
Prof. Randa Hamdi
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Social Network ◽  
New Media ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
The Social ◽  
Rules And Principles ◽  
Marketing Tool ◽  
The Impact

This research was written to discover the future trends in new media and social networking .The researchers have taken a personal interest in the developments of Web 2.0 platforms after noticing the impact they have made on society on a global scale as well as in our own daily life. The advances in this technology have altered the way individual users and organizations can communicate with each other. In this study of the social network sites we will concentrate on Facebook and its effectiveness as a tool of marketing in the Saudi population because recently it gained enormous popularity for marketing communications. Facebook especially describes itself as the perfect marketing tool because its developers have created an advertising system which allows businesses to use the information of each Facebook user for targeted advertising. Facebook provides the ideal platform for direct communication between organizations and customers. Marketing on social network sites has to follow new rules and principles and each organization has to clearly determine if social media marketing is appropriate for them or not. Through extensive research and analysis, the researchers intended to find if the Facebook is an effective marketing tool in Saudi Arabia where marketers can reach and influence targeted consumers.

scholarly journals Russian Tourism in the Era of the Covid-19 Pandemic: New Trends

Discourse ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 74-82
Author(s):  
E. A. Vostrova
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Rental Housing ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Social Experiment ◽  
Short Term ◽  
The Public ◽  
Travel Planning ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Impact

Introduction. The era of the Covid-19 pandemic has had a serious impact on changes in various areas of our society, and also predetermined the transformation of the Russian tourism industry. The purpose of the work is to identify new trends in Russian tourism in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic.Methodology and sources. The study used the method of selective observation and the method of forecasting, carried out the sociological analysis of the works of modern scientists N.A. Voskolovich, I.V. Loguntsova, B.M. Eidelman, O.A. Bunakov, L.R. Fakhrutdinova, V. Durly and the large-scale study of the impact of the pandemic on the tourism industry in Russia (906 respondents).Results and discussion. The author has deepened his understanding of the process of de-globalization in relation to Russian tourism during a pandemic. The pandemic is accelerating de-globalization, the megatrend that could become strategic in tourism for the foreseeable future. This experience will contribute to the emergence and popularization of new tourism trends: the increase in the number of travel near the place of residence and within the country, the spread of digitalization, the personalization of travel offers, travel planning with safety in mind and attention to the sanitary and epidemiological situation, an increase in ecotourism and excursion tourism, an increase in the number of car trips, as well as the reorientation of some tourists from hotels to short-term rental housing.Conclusion. From a futuristic perspective, the pandemic has greatly benefited the panorama of events unfolding before our eyes. The pandemic, speaking in futuristic terms, can be classified as a “black swan”. This is the social experiment on a global scale, which determines the emergence of new tourism trends, and also forms in the eyes of the public the special attitude towards Russian tourism as a truly important industry.

scholarly journals Vietnam’s Scientific Publications in the Period of COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-50
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Environmental Science ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Research Fields ◽  
The Social ◽  
Main Research Topic ◽  
The Impact

The COVID-19 pandemic is considered a global disaster that affects all areas of the world; however, it is also seen as a motivation for domestic and foreign scientists to focus on researching solutions to reduce its damage. This article aims to explore the correlation of scientific publications of countries in Southeast Asia, among research fields in Vietnam and among topics published by Vietnamese educational institutions in the context of a pandemic. 1392 Southeast Asian countries’ publications related to COVID-19 were referenced from the Scopus database, including 123 articles from Vietnam (up to August 27th, 2020). Statistics show that Vietnam ranks fifth in the number of scientific publications with research cooperation of researchers from 20 different countries. Regarding the research fields of Vietnam, medicine is the main research topic, social science ranks third following environmental science. In the field of social science, articles focus on four key topics: epidemic prevention, reduction of pandemic effects on life and socioeconomics, factors related to online learning of students, healthcare for the elderly. From the analysis results, the authors recommend that researchers should pay attention to other topics in the social sciences that have not been published, such as psychological effects of infected or suspected nCovi, the impact of COVID-19 to disadvantaged groups in society

scholarly journals Kto sa bojí sociálneho konštruktivizmu?

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 37-60
Author(s):  
Dilbar Alieva
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Social Constructivism ◽  
50Th Anniversary ◽  
Social Construction Of Reality ◽  
Philosophical Foundations ◽  
Test Tool ◽  
The Social ◽  
Famous Book ◽  
Symbolic Universe ◽  
The Impact

The paper is dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the edition of Berger and Luckmann’s The Social Construction of Reality. It was the occasion to convince about a real impact of this famous book, that was translated into Czech in 1999, on the thinking and the vocabulary of Slovak and Czech sociologists. But after initial interest in this book the sociological public gradually stopped at its formal recognition. However, even those sociologists who expressed interest in the theory of Berger and Luckmann, did not taken it as a theoretical whole, with own particular philosophical program. They are satisfied by choosing from social constructivism some original concepts, that as well as „symbolic universe“ must roofed their own account. It seems, that sociologists are afraid of social constructivism for its epistemological position, which is constant challenge to the realistic approach in sociology. However, these issues may be best resolved through discussions on philosophical and epistemological topics. We note three epistemological positions, each of which was a serious challenge to the idea of social construction. The first is the position of the classical epistemological realism. The second is the principle of philosophical apriorism, which is a prerequisite for any constructivism. The third position is presented by the theory of objectivation. This principle is a component of the social constructivism. We present each of these epistemological principles as one side of an imaginary triangle. The theory of social construction of reality is closed inside this triangle. This theory is the object of the philosophical influence of the three aforementioned teachings. They embody for it the pattern of philosophising, because they state the criteria of its philosophical competence. Therefore our proposed imaginary „epistemological triangle“ was used as a test tool for to ascertain the impact of various philosophical doctrines on ideological profile of social constructivism. The use of this triangle helped us to look deeper into the philosophical foundations of social constructivism and to verify their authenticity. It also helped us to dispel fears of social constructivism and of its allegedly excessive subjectivism.

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