How Does the Man-Know-Man Network Culture Influence Transnational Entrepreneurship?

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 163-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kingsley C. Njoku ◽  
Thomas M. Cooney
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Traditional Beliefs ◽  
Network Culture ◽  
Entrepreneurial Behaviour ◽  
Ethnic Network ◽  
Culture Influence ◽  
Transnational Entrepreneurship ◽  
Novel Strategy ◽  
New Framework

Scholars broadly agree that ethnic network and culture facilitates opportunity formation amongst transnational entrepreneurs (TEs). This article explores shared practices such as cultural values and traditional beliefs in entrepreneurial behaviour to expound how it influences decision-making process amongst TEs. The man-know-man guiding framework is introduced, and scenarios are presented that will allow in-depth understanding regarding how TEs engage in such practices. The article contributes to existing knowledge through the exposition of the new framework for analysing man-know-man network practices and how they influence transnational entrepreneurship. It also presents a novel strategy for building business relationship on quid pro quo conditions.

Fuzzy Design Scheme Selection Method Based on QFD Integrated with TRIZ

2009 ◽  
Vol 419-420 ◽  
pp. 61-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chang Hua Qiu ◽  
Shang Liu ◽  
Dong Yan Shi
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Quality Function Deployment ◽  
Adaptive Design ◽  
Fuzzy Numbers ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Triangular Fuzzy Numbers ◽  
Human Thought ◽  
Scheme Selection ◽  
New Framework

A new framework of decision-making is proposed in this paper to accommodate the application of quality function deployment (QFD) integrated with TRIZ. In the proposal framework, Ideal Final Result (IFR) oriented decision-making process is introduced for the innovation design process in order to select the best solution from alternatives which are generated by TRIZ and consistent with the laws of technical system evolution. Overall customer satisfaction oriented decision-making process is applied for the alternatives generated from both innovation design process and adaptive design process. The correlation matrix, which affects the weight of criteria, is modified according to the style of broken contradiction for the application of TRIZ. Meanwhile, triangular fuzzy numbers are utilized to deal with vagueness of human thought. Finally, an example is taken to show application of the framework.

Innovations and culture: Importance of the analysis methodology

2018 ◽  
pp. 70-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. L. Tambovtsev
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
National Culture ◽  
Innovative Activity ◽  
Regional Economies ◽  
Societal Values ◽  
Analysis Methodology ◽  
Culture Influence

The paper is devoted to the analysis of conclusiveness of assertions that national cultural values influence the levels of national and regional economies, firms, and individuals innovative activity. These assertions are based on correlations between societal values and some innovative activity indicators, while presumable mechanisms of that impact are not described and empirically verified. It is shown that national culture representation by societal values is irrelevant, whereby any statements about culture influence on innovations appear unjustified. It means that additional studies relaying on different culture representations are necessary to understand what exactly and how components of national culture affect innovations.

Patient Participation in Decision Making at the End of Life as Seen by a Close Relative

2000 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 296-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Sahlberg-Blom ◽  
Britt-Marie Ternestedt ◽  
Jan-Erik Johansson
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Patient Participation ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Close Relative ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Care Planning ◽  
Final Phase ◽  
The Social ◽  
Research Interviews

The aim of the present study was to describe variations in patient participation in decisions about care planning during the final phase of life for a group of gravely ill patients, and how the different actors’ manner of acting promotes or impedes patient participation. Thirty-seven qualitative research interviews were conducted with relatives of the patients. The patients’ participation in the decisions could be categorized into four variations: self-determination, co-determination, delegation and nonparticipation. The manner in which patients, relatives and caregivers acted differed in the respective variations; this seemed either to promote or to impede the patients’ opportunities of participating in the decision making. The possibility for participation seems to be context dependent and affected by many factors such as the dying patient’s personality, the social network, the availability of different forms of care, cultural values, and the extent to which nurses and other caregivers of the different forms of care can and want to support the wishes of the patients and relatives in the decision-making process.

scholarly journals epic space of Dam San: a cultural picture of the Ede ethnic group in Vietnam

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (S2) ◽  
pp. 848-859
Author(s):  
Le Thi Bich Thuy
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Traditional Beliefs ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Productive Labor

This article studies the epic space of Dam San that is associated with traditional beliefs, rituals in festivals, and contexts associated with Ede’s productive labor and living activities. In that context, the image of the hero Dam San is an ideal leader with strength, talent, courage, virtue, great ambitions, and great ideals, and those ideals also represent the ideals of an ethnic group. The epic space of Dam San is just like a large theme reflecting the cultural life and anchoring, transmitting traditional cultural values of the Ede ethnic group in Vietnam.

scholarly journals Pengaruh Budaya Organisasi, Kompensasi Terhadap Kepuasan Kerja Dan Kinerja Pegawai Bank di Surabaya

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 49
Author(s):  
Rifdah Abadiyah
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Compensation Effect ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Culture Influence ◽  
Domestic Banks

Along with the bank's growth in Indonesia, one of the problems faced by the world is handling domestic banks that are now on the quality of human resources. Because human resources are the backbone of the operating activities of wheels and the survival of a company. In this case oriented to customer satisfaction and service organization of Bank Syariah Mandiri Surabaya CFBC Division there are also aspects of cultural values and compensation to improve morale and satisfy the desires of employees. The approach in this study is a quantitative approach, which used the data type is the kind of quantitative data. Data collection techniques performed by researchers are using questionnaires. The population in this study are employees on Shariah Bank Mandiri as many as 30 people. Teknik data analysts use Structural Equation Model-Partial Lest Square (SEM-PLS). The results showed that 1) organizational culture influence on job satisfaction. (2) Organizational culture influence on performance (3) Job satisfaction terhaap affect performance (4) Compensation effect on job satisfaction (5) Compensation effect on performance.

scholarly journals Women in Achebe’s Novel “Things Fall Apart”

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Mundi Rahayu
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Belief System ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Chinua Achebe ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Postcolonial Feminism ◽  
Patriarchal Culture ◽  
The Social ◽  
Things Fall Apart

This paper explores the image of women in Chinua Achebe novel’s Things Fall Apart. As the prominent postcolonial writer, Achebe has a vivid expression describing the social cultural values of the Ibo community in Nigeria, Africa. Analysis of the novel is done through the perspective of postcolonial feminism. Postcolonial feminism finds the relation and intersection between Postcolonialism and feminism. This interplay is interesting to observe. The findings show that in traditional patriarchal culture as in the novel, women are portrayed happy, harmonious members of the community, even when they are repeatedly beaten and barren from any say in the communal decision-making process and constantly reviled in sayings and proverbs. However some other interesting findings are that the women also have big role in the belief system of the community, and in Achebe’s novel he made it an amusement, for example by punishing Okonkwo because of his beating to his wife in the sacred time. Keywords: Postcolonial Feminism;  Traditional Patriarchal Culture;  Community 

Network Unavailable

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 130-141
Author(s):  
Wing Ki Lee
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Chinese Media ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Network Culture ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Central Argument ◽  
Golden Shield Project ◽  
Net Art ◽  
Contemporary Chinese ◽  
Venice Biennale

This paper problematizes assumptions of global all-pervading ‘available’ network culture by examining ‘network unavailability’ phenomenon in contemporary Chinese network culture through a post-colonial critique. The central argument of ‘network unavailable’ in China is contextualized by the performativity of the Great Firewall and the Golden Shield Project, Chinese media artist Fei Jun’s net art project Interesting World (2019) in the Venice Biennale and network happenings during the 2019 Anti-extradition Law Amendment Bill protests in Hong Kong. Through these examples the author argues that network culture in China is political and geopolitical and the discussion of networks should go beyond mere structuralism and emphasize the everyday life, tactical, and microscopic decision-making process.

scholarly journals Tall poppies in the land down under

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bert Peeters
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Figures Of Speech ◽  
Language Students ◽  
Australian English ◽  
New Framework

Most EFL curricula, irrespective of the variety of English they seek to impart, have little time for cultural values, focusing instead on “Culture with a capital C,” i.e., history, geography, cultural heritage, folklore, etc. Applied ethnolinguistics is a relatively new framework that has been developed to curb the trend. It consists of a number of pathways that can be replicated by advanced language students eager to increase their awareness of potentially unfamiliar cultural values. One of the pathways, ethnorhetorics (the study of culturally salient figures of speech), will be illustrated here with data drawn from Australian English. The focus will be on the tall poppy metaphor. A few hints at its cultural salience and a brief look at where tall poppies are typically found will be followed by a more linguistically oriented analysis. On the basis of the evidence gathered, we will formulate a hypothesis about cultural values which (at least from the students’ point of view) is in need of further corroboration. This requires a different pathway, known as ethnoaxiology, which will not be illustrated in this paper; a few pointers will be provided instead.

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