...CROSS-CULTURAL PERCEPTIONS IN THE INDIA-U.S. BUSINESS CONTEXT Rama Subba Rao Appikatla University of Central Oklahoma aramasubbarao@ucok.edu HU UH Mark E. Hillon University of Central Oklahoma mhillon@ucok.edu HU UH ABSTRACT India’s economic liberalization in 1991 opened the gateway for new opportunities in emerging market trade relations. Although the U.S. has quickly become India’s largest trading partner, surprisingly little research has been devoted to cross-cultural perceptions in the India-U.S. business context. We developed an approach based on Levinson’s (1950) ethnocentrist model to explore the underlying values of the two cultures, specifically in relation to perceptions of work. Preliminary results indicate a potential misalignment of motivating values. This study may have further implications for the selection of strategic business partners and other important crosscultural transactions. Keywords: India, Ethnocentrist, Levinson Introduction The genesis for this study was a question posed by an Indian graduate student on her first visit to the U.S. who simply wanted to know what Americans thought of Indians and her home country. India’s economic liberalization in 1991 opened the gateway for new multilateral business opportunities, and in a broader sense, the world gained access to a vast wealth of untapped resources in India, including a highly educated workforce to satisfy the global desire for outsourced services. Although the U.S. has quickly become...
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...Assignment 3 Kendall Nelson 1) What does the position of enterprise architect entail? What qualifications or experiences would you think a good enterprise architect should have? Support your answer with examples from the case. As the case stated, enterprise architects need to be able to create unity. They must be able to have a broad look on situations, as well as be able to take a close up view and individual issues. A good skill to have is to be able to step back and take a look at what problems the proposed project will solve. I think that these are all qualifications that a good enterprise architect should have. The ability to focus on the big picture seems to be one that is highly stressed in the case, that way when you are designing you can focus on what the overall outcome will be and what kind of problems it will solve. 2) Consider the different companies mentioned in the case and their experiences with enterprise architecture. Does this approach seem to work better in certain types of companies or industries than in others? Why or why not? Sony was mentioned in the case as putting together a group of enterprise architects in order to save on costs. They had to start out small and then work their way up in the enterprise architect world. They didn’t have business support to begin with so they had to take small risks and help plan for the future until they had built up business support. This seemed to work for Sony as they had to focus...
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...he problem with Compaq is that they developed too much IT architecture using financial advisory, where R&D and openness keys to development and the culture, while ignoring the environment. Open communication and trust was barricaded and destroyed by ASK (financial IS). The workers were being motivated by fear, much like Geneen in Morgan’s Images Of Organization. From an IT architecture standpoint, numbers based on the finance division depicted the entire company, even the organizational structure. The organizational structure did not align with the IT architecture, and the culture did not align with it either. Morgan stated, “The division of labor characteristic of industrial societies creates a problem of integration, or what may be more accurately described as a problem of integration, or what may be more accurately described as a problem of “cultural management.”” Compaq started as a functional structure, changed into a divisional fairly soon and then back to functional. Culture was strongly emphasized over anything else. CASH stated, “The process encompassed a whole range of ideas, including (1) the rule of inclusion, (2) teamwork, (3) “working the issue,” and (4) consensus building.” The IS system at Compaq did allow the free-flow of information through email named “B-mail.” ASK was used for financial services so that the company could easily track orders, and know where it stood financially. The culture felt monitored by ASK operators since it “becomes responsible for...
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...Available online at www.interscience.in Development of Product Costing Module in ERP for L&T Kansbahal Works, Kansbhal, Orissa : A Case Study 1 Seema G. Bhol, 2Arun Mishra & 3Srikanta Patnaik Sambalpur University, Burla, Orissa, India, 2Head (IT Services), L&T, Kansbhal, Orissa, India, 3 Department of Computer Science ITER , SOA University , Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India E-mail : guptaseema@hotmail.com, arun-kbl@kbl.ltindia.com, patnaik_srikanta@yahoo.co.in 1 Abstract - One need to be very accurate in what the products and services are costing. Inaccurate cost components could cost an organization more dearly. So, to full fill our present and future requirements and ambitions in all respect of life, it is essential enhance our expertise to link the power of today's information technology with the tools of economic theory and business strategy.[2] This paper aims at throwing new lights on various developments and formulate strategy for their implementation. Keywords— Business Mapping Report (BMR), Product costing, Dataflow Diagram, Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP), cost overhead, cost centres, Cost variance report, WIP. . 1. INTRODUCTION businesses, non-profit organizations and governments now all utilize ERP systems. The use of erp module saves time and money without sacrificing accuracy and control. Product costs are analysed quickly and accurately, which empowers the organization with the ability to perform minute analysis and projections of product cost. Few of the many...
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...L E BRÉSIL : POURQUOI SON ÉCON O MI E S’ ESSOUFFLET-ELLE ? Fayada Alice, Bonuso Thomas, Bouvier Adeline Exposé d’économie LEA 1 Le Brésil : Pourquoi son économie s’essouffle-t-e$e ? 1 TABLE DES MATIÈRES Introduction 4 I. Emergence du Brésil 6 1. Emergence économique 6 Secteur primaire 6 Secteur secondaire 8 Secteur tertiaire 8 2. Emergence sociale Développement d’une classe moyenne 10 10 Consommation à crédit 11 3. Emergence politique 12 Nationale 12 Internationale 12 II. Essoufflement du Brésil 13 1. Essoufflement au niveau national 13 Consommation en baisse&investissement faible 13 Insécurité & inégalités 14 Corruption 17 2. Essoufflement au niveau international 18 Crise économique 18 Pressions exterieures 19 Environnement & écologie 19 III. Perspectives d’avenir Le Brésil : Pourquoi son économie s’essouffle-t-e$e ? 20 2 1. Evénements à venir 20 La coupe des confédérations en 2013 20 La coupe du monde de footba$ en 2014 20 Les jeux olympiques en 2016 20 2. Mesures à prendre 21 Développer les in&astructures 21 Réduire l’insécurité 21 L’impact estimé de ces événements sur le pays 21 Conclusion 22 Bibliographie 23 Le Brésil : Pourquoi son économie s’essouffle-t-e$e ? 3 INTRODUCTION Chronologie du Brésil avec quelques dates importantes. Le Brésil est un pays d’Amérique...
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...Papers Cannabis use in adolescence and risk for adult psychosis: longitudinal prospective study Louise Arseneault, Mary Cannon, Richie Poulton, Robin Murray, Avshalom Caspi, Terrie E Moffitt Editorial by Rey and Tennant Papers pp 1195, 1199 SGDP Research Centre, King’s College, London SE5 8AF Louise Arseneault lecturer Avshalom Caspi professor Terrie E Moffitt professor Division of Psychological Medicine, King’s College Mary Cannon Wellcome Trust advanced fellow Robin Murray professor Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Research Unit, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand Richie Poulton director, Dunedin multidisciplinary health and development study The strongest evidence that cannabis use may be a risk factor for later psychosis comes from a Swedish cohort study which found that heavy cannabis use at age 18 increased the risk of later schizophrenia sixfold.1 2 This study could not establish whether adolescent cannabis use was a consequence of pre-existing psychotic symptoms rather than a cause. We present the first prospective longitudinal study of adolescent cannabis use as a risk factor for adult schizophreniform disorder, taking into account childhood psychotic symptoms3 antedating cannabis use. Methods and results The Dunedin multidisciplinary health and development study (a study of a general population birth cohort of 1037 individuals born in Dunedin, New Zealand, in 1972-3)4 has a 96% follow...
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...REVIEW Aspirin for the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Events in Women and Men A Sex-Specific Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials Jeffrey S. Berger, MD, MS Maria C. Roncaglioni, MD Fausto Avanzini, MD Ierta Pangrazzi, MD Gianni Tognoni, MD David L. Brown, MD pirin therapy for reducing the risk of myocardial infarction (MI), stroke, and vascular death among men and women with preexisting cardiovascular disease are well established,1-3 the role of aspirin in primary prevention is less clear. An overview of 5 randomized trials investigating aspirin therapy for the primary prevention of vascular disease found a significant beneficial effect of aspirin therapy on the prevention of a first MI, but no significant effects on the risk of stroke or vascular death.4 Although women were included in only 2 of these studies and accounted for only 20% of the population studied, the US Preventive Services Task Force5 and the American Heart Association6 deemed aspirin therapy effective in decreasing the incidence of coronary heart disease in adults of both sexes who are at increased risk. Subsequently, guidelines from the American Heart Association on the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in women recommended use of low-dose aspirin therapy in women whose 10-year risk of a first coronary event exceeds 20% and consideration 306 Context Aspirin therapy reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease in adults who are at increased risk. However, it is unclear if women...
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...Chemistry, National Cheng Kung University,Talnan, Taiwan, R.O.C. (Received in revised form 1 July 1996) Key Word I n d e x - - C l a u s e n a claucavatin-B. excavata; Rutaceae; coumarin; flavonoid; claucavatin-A; Abstract--Two new pyrano-coumarins, claucavatin-A and -B, together with eight known coumarins and two known flavonoids were isolated and identified from the acetone extract of the root bark of Clausena excavata. Their structures were elucidated by the spectroscopic analyses. Copyright © 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd INTRODUCTION Clausena excavata has been used as a folk medicine in at 6 2.73 and a gem-dimethyl singlet at 6 1.62 indicated a 2'-2'-dimethyl-4-pyranone ring linearly attached to the coumarin ring. Unlike the two cis-vinyl protons found in 4, in 1 only one downfield singlet proton was seen (6 7.89). This suggests that there is a substituent attached to C-3. The remaining peaks disclosed pairs of 1,1-dimethylallyl groups at 8 1.46 and 1.47 (each 6H, s, each 2×CH3), 4.88 and 5.09 (each 1H, rid, each J = 10.4, 0.8 Hz), 4.92 and 5.10 (each 1H, dd, J = 17.8, 0.8, and 17.0, 0.8 Hz), 6.15 and 6.22 (each rid, 1H, J = 17.8, 10.4 and 17.0, 10.4 Hz) which would substitute on C-3 and C-8. On the basis of the above results, the structure of claucavatin-A was deduced as 1. Claucavatin-B (2) was obtained as granules. Its molecular formula, containing two more hydrogen atoms than 1, was established as C24H3oO5. However, the spectral data were very...
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...Evidence Based Practice Western Governors University Tracy Wallace Hospital-acquired pneumonia has a very high morbidity and mortality rate here in the United States and is the second most common nosocomial infection. HAP consists of approximately fifteen percent of all hospital-acquired infections and occurs in five to fifteen percent of every 1,000 admissions. Critical care nurses are presented with unique challenges when caring for patients who are at risk for developing VAP. Strategies must be developed using evidence-based practice and incorporated into daily care in order to prevent VAP in patients receiving mechanical ventilation. ICU Doctors, Nurse Educators and the DON on the ICU unit are currently responsible for our current oral care practice. Our hospital is currently using (OAG), which stands for Eiders’ Oral Assessment Guide, it measures a patient’s oral health status and the frequency of oral hygiene. This tool measures oral health by using 8 different categories: swallow, lips, tongue, saliva, mucous membranes, gingiva, teeth, and voice. They are graded 1 (best), 2, or 3 (worst). Normal findings would be a score of 8, whereas 24 would be the total worst score in all 8 categories. I will now explain how using evidence based practice and OAG can improve the oral health of patients on ventilators. The conclusion will be supported by the research that I have obtained in this research project, which is decreasing the risk of pneumonia on patients who are on ventilators...
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...transakčních nákladů je výsledek tržního procesu nezávislý na počátečním rozdělení vlastnických práv“. Pojďme se však od R. Coaseho přesunout k teorii firmy, která na jeho základech staví a to v podání Ollivera E. Williamsona. Williamson bývá pokládán za jednoho z prvních ekonomů, kteří se úspěšně pokusili detailněji rozvinout ekonomickou teorii zkoumající strukturu firmy. Dřívější ekonomické teorie se k firmě stavěly z pohledu tzv. „black box“, tedy že vnitřní uspořádání firmy není pro další zkoumání důležité. Teorie transakčních nákladů se tedy snaží vysvětlit specifickou strukturu či organizaci firmy a co je důležitější i stupeň, kterým se bude vertikálně dále integrovat. Tato Williamsonova teorie poměrně dobře zapadá do rámce tzv. ekonomie hlavního proudu. Shodné jsou například předpoklady maximalizace zisku, což je v souladu s minimalizací nákladů a dále předpokládá racionální chování na straně vlastníků či manažerů. Hlavní odlišnost je však v transakčních nákladech, které odlišuje od běžně chápaných produkčních nákladů. Transakční náklady Williamson přirovnává ke tření ve fyzikálních zákonech. V souladu se základním předpokladem se firmy snaží minimalizovat své celkové náklady, které se ovšem skládají jak z produkčních nákladů tak také z transakčních nákladů. Za těchto okolností může nastat situace kdy budou transakční náklady nižší, pokud se transakce uskuteční na trhu, případně může nastat situace opačná a transakční náklady budou nižší pokud bude transakce koordinována ze strany...
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...The Diels-Alder Reaction of Anthracene with Maleic Anhydride The Diels-Alder reaction is a member of a class of reactions called cycloadditions. The reaction involves three π bonds, two from the diene and one from the dienophile in a concerted reaction to form a six-membered ring. Since the reaction involves four π electrons in the diene and two π electrons from the dienophile, it is sometimes referred to as a 4 + 2 cycloaddition. Normal Diels-Alder reactions are favored by electron donating groups on the diene and electron withdrawing groups on the dienophile. The diene must be capable of achieving an s-cis conformation to generate the cis double bond in the cyclohexene product. Acyclic dienes may rotate around a single bond, but dienes locked in the s-trans conformation do not react. [pic] The purpose of this experiment is to form 9,10-dihydroanthracene-9,10-α,β-succinic anhydride by way of a Diels Alder reaction between anthracene and maleic anhydride, as shown in the reaction below. Anthracene acts as the diene and maleic anhydride functions as the dienophile. Xylene (dimethylbenzene) is used as a high boiling temperature solvent so that the reaction will proceed quickly. Melting temperature analysis will be used to characterize the product. Anthracene Maleic anhydride 9,10-dihydroanthracene- ...
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