The question of what is ‘place’ plagues nearly all the social sciences. One thing that should be clear is that the old communication model of culture requiring only a sender and receiver of data is inadequate. Culture has a setting and this setting is enabled through a perceived sense of place. As culture requires a setting, it must be “embedded in real-life situations, in temporally and spatia...

1 ABSTRACT The study aims at demonstrating cultural differences between American and Chinese in terms of customer's perceptions and satisfaction of crowded environment within the context of restaurant setting. It has been noted that culture has a substantial impact on customer's affection and judgment, and crowding in service environments is a critical antecedent of customer's satisfaction. Con...

Doctors and clients sometimes experience interactive clashes during hospital meetings in South-western Nigerian hospitals because of their divergent culture-constrained orientation to politeness cues. The goal of this paper is to unpack the discursive elements that characterize interactive confluence and divergence in selected consultative encounters in the hospitals. The findings indicate that...

Purpose – Business Process Management (BPM) requires a holistic perspective that includes managing the culture of an organization to achieve objectives of efficient and effective business processes. Still, the specifics of a BPM-supportive organizational culture have not been examined so far. Thus, the purpose of our paper is to identify the characteristics of a cultural setting supportive of B...

This paper discusses the increasing imperative for teachers who work in cultural settings other than their own to develop an understanding of their own world-view and the impact their assumptions about teachers, school, students, family and so on have on their teaching practice. The brief narrative of one cultural world-view provides an example of the areas where tensions may arise for teaching...