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lecture notes on cultural friction and friction and dissonance
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MGT 303 Cultural Metaphors – Friction and Distance 1. The power of metaphor a. Metaphors cognitively prime us to view the world in certain ways b. Business and culture metaphors: cultural distance and cultural friction 2. Cultural distance – assumptions a. Attention focused on differences between cultures (etic approach) rather than on properties of a culture (emic approach). 3. Cultural distance – critique a. All cultural differences are not the same b. Context matters c. Cultural differences are not symmetrical 4. Cultural friction – advantages a. Context is important – values are stressed in some situations but not in others b. Context is important – potential asymmetry between countries c. Cultural differences are not only costs, but may also be resources d. Third cultural possibilities 5. Our research a. The cultural importance (centrality) of dimension matters b. Team oriented and participatory leadership CLTs are deeply embedded in Chinese leadership culture and differences in these central dimensions increase firm death c. Differences in the less central dimension of charismatic, self protective and autonomous leadership led to a greater likelihood of the firm survival...