Cultural Distance between China and US across GLOBE Model and Hofstede Model

This study focuses on the comparison of cultural distance between China and US across GLOBE (the Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness) Model and Hofstede Model. Research in the cultural distance between the two countries has always been a hot topic in international business field. This paper first gives a brief introduction of GLOBE Model and Hofstede Model, and compares the cultural distance between China and US from the 9 dimensions in GLOBE Model and the 5 dimensions in Hofstede Model, and then compares the different results yielded. Finally a way forward in the future research is suggested, and some issues for further research into this fundamental area of international business are canvassed.Key words: Cultural distance; GLOBE Model; Hofstede Model; China; U

Even cycles and perfect matchings in claw-free plane graphs

Lov{\'a}sz showed that a matching covered graph $G$ has an ear decomposition starting with an arbitrary edge of $G$. Let $G$ be a graph which has a perfect matching. We call $G$ cycle-nice if for each even cycle $C$ of $G$, $G-V(C)$ has a perfect matching. If $G$ is a cycle-nice matching covered graph, then $G$ has ear decompositions starting with an arbitrary even cycle of $G$. In this paper, we characterize cycle-nice claw-free plane graphs. We show that the only cycle-nice simple 3-connected claw-free plane graphs are $K_4$, $W_5$ and $\overline C_6$. Furthermore, every cycle-nice 2-connected claw-free plane graph can be obtained from a graph in the family ${\cal F}$ by a sequence of three types of operations, where ${\cal F}$ consists of even cycles, a diamond, $K_4$, and $\overline C_6$.Comment: 12 page