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Chinese Americans and the Borderland Experience on Golden Mountain: The Development of a Chinese American Identity in the Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
In The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, Maxine Hong Kingston tells the story of her immigrant family and their efforts to rise above their working-class status in America, which optimistic Chinese regard as the Golden Mountain. The Hongs\u27 experience is not unlike that of other immigrants who come to America to escape hardship in their homeland and hope to live the American Dream. The road to American success has numerous obstacles, and immigrants encounter many conflicts on their journey. One conflict relates to their cultural identities. Gloria Anzaldúa uses the word borderland to refer to the meeting of two cultures, and she defines the borderland as a place of contradictions. Hatred, anger and exploitation are the prominent features of this landscape (n.p.). While Anzaldua\u27s discussion focuses on the borderland encountered by Mexican Americans, she believes that many share this painful experience
Social Motives and Their Development in Cultural Context
This paper deals with differences in social motives between cultures and with respect to their development. First, social motives are described as complex functional systems. Then aggressiveness and achievement motivation are dealt with as examples. Assumptions about biological factors are discussed and cultural differences are reported. Based on cross-cultural research, variations in early mother-child relations and in cultural norms and values are discussed as main sources of individual and cultural differences
The Organizational Culture in the Human Resources management of a Medical Institution
Therefore, the first sign of the organizational culture's effectiveness of a medical institution should be considered the degree of compliance of staff values with the values of the institution and the expectations of stakeholders. The experience of the world's leading medical institutions demonstrates that an organizational culture is always a useful tool for managing human resources and one of the primary sources of competitive advantage for healthcare providers
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Cultural dimensions and CRM systems: a structurational analysis
Cultural dimensions are often identified as a crucial influence on the success or failure of Information Systems in general and Customer Relationship Management Systems (CRM) in particular. Several researchers have suggested ways in which management can accommodate these dimensions or solve the problems they may pose. Ali& Alshawi (2005) have proposed a cultural concerns framework for the management of CRM systems implementation in the multinational environment. In this paper the authors test that framework by conducting a qualitative comparative case study in a large multinational organization in two countries. The authors have investigated the implementation of CRM systems within the same organization in Egypt and UK. Using observation, document analysis and interviews, qualitative data has been extracted and has been used by the authors to develop a Structurational analysis Walsham (2002) which based on the concepts of Structuration Theory Giddens (1979,1984 ). The authors propose a Structurational analysis of their comparative case study to drive from that the cultural dimensions which may have impact on CRM systems implementation and operation in multinational environment
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Cultural Dimensions And CRM Systems: A Cross-Cultural Case Study’
Cultural dimensions are often identified as a crucial influence on the success or failure of Information Systems in general and Customer Relationship Management Systems (CRM) in particular. Several researchers have suggested ways in which management can accommodate these dimensions or solve the problems they may pose. Ali& Alshawi (2005) have proposed a cultural concerns framework for the management of CRM systems implementation in the multinational environment. In this paper the authors test that framework by conducting a qualitative comparative case study in a large multinational organization in two countries. The authors have investigated the implementation of CRM systems within the same organization in both Egypt and the UK. Using observation, document analysis and interviews, qualitative data has been elicited and used a Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) analysis to determine themes for each case study. The result is a framework of cultural dimensions for management of CRM systems, within multinational environment organizations
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Cultural universality versus particularity within e-CRM systems: a special case of information systems
Cultural factors are often identified as a crucial influence on the success or failure of
Information Systems in general and Electronic Customer Relationship Management
Systems (eCRM) in particular. Several researchers have suggested ways in which
management can accommodate these factors or solve the problem they pose. This paper
attempts to go one step beyond management measures and ask whether there is a
theoretical foundation on which one can base the mutual influence of culture on eCRM.
There is a lack of pervious literature on the impact of culture differences on eCRM
systems. A normative literature review on the impact of culture on different types of
Information Systems has been done to explore different cultural factors that might
influence eCRM systems as an application of Information Systems. The authors highlight
the cultures factors in macro and micro level that have been investigated in the literature of
Information systems. At the macro level, it is necessary to consider the differences at a
national level. The differentiating characteristics will include: organizational structures,
function and process oriented views, supervisory control mechanisms etc. Micro level
considerations will be at the individual level and will include human responses to
organizational change, cultural acceptability of different organizational structures etc. The
authors propose a framework of cultural concerns for management of eCRM systems
within multinational environment organizations. This framework will be tested in future
research and will be modified according to the results
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