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What is Cultural Factors

Chapter 7
Handbook of Research on Contemporary Approaches in Management and Organizational Strategy
Encompasses the set of beliefs, moral values, traditions, language, and laws (or rules of behavior) held in common by a nation, a community, or other defined group of people.
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Innovation Cultural Factors in Australian Business Environment: IT Organizations in Australia
Kyeong Kang (University of Technology Sydney, Australia), Stephen Burdon (University of Technology Sydney, Australia), and Grant Mooney (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 17
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-6301-3.ch007
Abstract
This chapter presents research on innovation culture in Australian business organizations in the information technology sector, with a survey sent out the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) commercial members' executives. The survey was designed to determine organizational culture traits that determine innovation culture from the perspectives of their employees and competitors. Two hundred and forty-four responses were received from 102 organizations. A detailed analysis of the research data using qualitative and quantitative methods leads to the conclusion that the perceived innovation traits. This investigation confirmed that the employer organizations had very good innovation cultures, and this view was further confirmed by responses from their competitor organization. This chapter teases out some of the cultural factors that lead to these outcomes.
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Politeness and Etiquette Modeling: Beyond Perception to Behavior
We use the term “cultural factors” to refer to “deeper” descriptors of common attitudes or thought patterns characteristic of cultures than are captured by the overt, “shallow” and potentially rote nature of our politeness behaviors. Several models of such deeper “cultural factors” exist such as Hofstede’s (1987) descriptive taxonomy or Nisbett’s (2003) largely cognitive explanation of differences in Eastern and Western thought.
Published in Chapter: Politeness and Etiquette Modeling: Beyond Perception to Behavior; From: Handbook of Research on Culturally-Aware Information Technology: Perspectives and Models
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