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Do eReferral, eWOM, familiarity and cultural distance predict enrollment intention? An application of an artificial intelligence technique

Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Technology, 2021
Purpose Little empirical attention has been paid to the effects of electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM), electronic referral (eReferral), familiarity and cultural distance on behavioral outcomes, especially within the context of educational tourism. Based on
A. Oday, Ali Ozturen, Mustafa Ilkan, A. Abubakar   +3 more
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The moderating effect of cultural distance on the cross-border knowledge management and innovation quality of multinational corporations

Journal of Knowledge Management, 2020
Purpose The key to the success of multinational corporations’ (MNCs) business models is the improvement of their innovation quality. From the cross-border knowledge management perspective, this paper aims to analyze the improvement path of innovation ...
Yunlong Duan, L. Huang, Hao Cheng, Lisheng Yang, Tianzhou Ren   +4 more
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The Cost of a Culture and Doctoring at a Distance

Hospital Pediatrics, 2015
A term infant at a community hospital was noted to be apneic with thick meconium at birth. She required intubation for respiratory distress and had an initial axillary temperature of 38.27°C (100.9°F). Blood culture was drawn, umbilical catheter was placed, and ampicillin and gentamicin were started for presumed sepsis.
Vidya V, Pai, Laura A, Vella, Evan S, Fieldston   +2 more
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Genetic, Cultural and Geographical Distances

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2006
This paper investigates how the measures of genetic distance between populations, which have been used in anthropology and historical linguistics, can be used in economics. What does the correlation between genetic distance and economic variables mean? Using the measure of genetic distance, a newly-collected database on transport costs, as well as more
Giuliano, Paola, Spilimbergo, Antonio, Tonon, Giovanni   +2 more
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Globalisation and the cultural impact on distance education

International Journal of Medical Informatics, 2000
With the delivery of distance (or flexible) learning in today's society, the changing roles of both the teacher and the learner need to be seriously considered. This is particularly relevant with the use of new technologies to deliver courses in locations with entirely different cultural and academic traditions.
Wendy McPhee, Christian Nøhr
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National cultural distance, organizational culture, and adaptation of management innovations in foreign subsidiaries: A fuzzy set analysis of TQM implementation in Saudi Arabia

, 2020
This paper examines the effects of organizational culture and national cultural distance between the headquarters and the subsidiary on the adaptation of management innovations in multinational enterprises (MNEs).
Fahad Alofan, Stephen Chen, Hao Tan
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Cultural distance asymmetry in expatriate adjustment [PDF]

Cross Cultural Management: An International Journal, 2007
PurposeThe current literature implicitly assumes a symmetric impact of cultural distance (CD) on expatriate adjustment. By using distance as a predictor of adjustment, the literature has rendered the direction of the flow irrelevant: a US expatriate in Germany is presumed to face the same hurdle as a German expatriate in the USA.
Selmer, Jan, Chiu, Randy K., Shenkar, Oded   +2 more
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Added cultural distance and ownership in cross-border acquisitions

, 2020
As multinational companies enter different countries, the extent of cultural unfamiliarity they face depends on their most recent entry. We examine this pattern of added cultural distance between a newly entered target country and the closest previous ...
Hyun Gon Kim, Ajai S. Gaur, D. Mukherjee
semanticscholar   +1 more source

East Asian films in the European market: the roles of cultural distance and cultural specificity

, 2020
PurposeThis study investigates the impact of cultural distance on foreign box office performance of East Asian cinematic production in European markets.
Xiaoyan Wang, Haibo Pan, Nibing Zhu, Shaohan Cai   +3 more
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Cultural Distances Among Occupational Categories

American Sociological Review, 1968
The responses to 113 national survey questions dealing with a variety of "culture-related" topics are used to estimate cultural differences among eight broad occupational categories in the United States. The estimated differences are rather small both among the manual categories and among the nonmanual categories, although there is not high consensus ...
N D, Glenn, J P, Alston
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