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Internationalisation, cultural distance and country characteristics: a Bayesian analysis of SME's financial performance [PDF]

, 2014
Relying on the accounting data of a panel of 403 Italian manufacturing SMEs collected over a period of 5 years, we find results suggesting that multinationality per se does not impact on the economic performance of international small and medium sized ...
Alfredo D’angelo, Antonio Majocchi, Beamish P. W., Brooks S. P., Chib S., Gelman A., Hofstede G., Johanson J., Luciana Dalla Valle, Rossi P., Wooldridge J. M.   +10 more
core   +6 more sources

Towards a better tourist-host relationship: the role of social contact between tourists’ perceived cultural distance and travel attitude

Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 2020
The ambiguous effect of cultural distance on travel attitude and tourist behaviours has long been debated, but its implications are vital to the success of achieving a sustainable tourist-host relationship.
Daisy X. F. Fan, H. Qiu, C. Jenkins, Chloe Lau   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Genealogy of imperfect construction of open education in Iran [PDF]

Taḥqīqāt-i Farhangī-i Īrān, 2022
Open education, in light of an amazing technological development, has transformed the educational system with changes in "educational culture" and an emphasis on the "learner-centered" principle.
A.A. Hedayati, M. Farajollahi, N. Fazeli, M.R. Sarmadi   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cultures meeting cultures in online distance education

Je-LKS: Journal of E-Learning and Knowledge Society, 2012
Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society, Vol 1, No 2 (2005): Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge ...
Grahame Moore, Michael, Shattuk, Kay, Al-Harthi, Alsha   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Relationship learning and international customer involvement in new product design: The moderating roles of customer dependence and cultural distance

Journal of business research, 2020
This study focuses on relationship learning and its implications for international customer involvement during the design stage of the new product development (NPD) process.
Zhaleh Najafi-Tavani, S. Mousavi, Ghasem Zaefarian, P. Naudé   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Digital Storytelling in a Flipped Classroom for Effective Learning

Education Sciences, 2017
Conclusive empirical evidence on whether virtual classrooms result in higher performance, satisfaction, or an improvement in problem solving skills when compared with traditional face-to-face lecturing does not exist.
Clemens Bechter, Fredric W. Swierczek
doaj   +1 more source

Dead in Life: Narratives About Circumstances Prior to Suicide in Rural Western Spain

Social Sciences
Background: In rural contexts, meanings of suicide are part of the intimate heritage of those closest to the suicidal person. They are also constructed through a social process.
Luis López-Lago Ortiz, Lorenzo Mariano Juárez, Julián López García   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Investigating the Shared Background Required for Argument: A Critique of Fogelin’s Thesis on Deep Disagreement

Informal Logic, 2008
Robert Fogelin claims that interlocutors must share a framework of background beliefs and commitments in order to fruitfully pursue argument. I refute Fogelin’s claim by investigating more thoroughly the shared background required for productive argument.
Dana Phillips
doaj   +1 more source

Comparing distance education and conventional education: Observations from a comparative study of post‐registration nurses [PDF]

, 2002
This retrospective study presents a comparison of assessment results achieved by distance‐learning students and classroom‐based students undertaking the same module in a degree course.
Duffy, Tim, Gilbert, Iain, Kennedy, David, Kwong, Poon   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

The Interplay of Formal Institutional and Cultural Distances and the Financial Performance of Foreign Subsidiaries in Latin America

International Journal of Financial Studies, 2023
We investigate how formal institutional distance (FID) moderates the cultural distance (CD) and financial performance relationships of foreign subsidiaries of firms.
Henrique Correa da Cunha, Mohamed Amal, Svante Andersson, Dinora Eliete Floriani, Carlyle Farrell   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source