Search results for "JAPAN"

Schemata, Acculturation, and Cognition : Expatriates in Japan's Software Industry

2016

This multiple case based empirical study expands the knowledge around North American software and IT workers in Japan as well as the expatriate literature and discussion of cognitive schemata in cross cultural settings. The study includes eleven individuals, nine of them in software. Evidence of selection, rejection, and adjustment of cognitive schemata found in Japan's business world is presented. Changes in schemata drive cultural adjustment and acculturation. North American software and IT workers in Japan must maneuver through unfamiliar and often complex schemata to motivate, lead, manipulate, and communicate with coworkers and partners and thereby gain success. peerReviewed

Acculturation of foreign IT workers in Japan from a cognitive and business management viewpoint

2016

This dissertation investigates expatriate IT workers located in Japan in the contexts of their acculturation and thinking about workplace and business negotiations. Case studies of individual actors supported by surveys were chosen as the methods to gather data leading to findings about how expatriates develop in Japan, including their ability to adjust, accept, and reject schemata about business management situations. Individuals were chosen as a unit of study because they are the key figures who decide the economic fate of companies. Schemata were chosen as a study focus in the later articles because they are the cognitive location of information about home and host culture and come into …

Entry Barriers of Small and Medium-sized Software Firms in the Japanese Market

2007

The Japanese software market size was 131,773 million U.S. dollars in 2004. Due to limited domestic software production, Japan is highly dependent on imported software products. Despite the market potential for foreign software firms in Japan, almost no research exists on what kind of challenges foreign software firms encounter when they are entering the market. To fill this gap, this paper investigates the entry barriers of small and medium-sized software firms in the Japanese market by using a multi case-study. The findings suggest that most of the barriers are firm-specific and mainly related to firms’ resources and capabilities to operate in the market. The entry barriers encountered al…

Aldo Tollini, La cultura del Tè in Giappone e la ricerca della perfezione, Piccola Biblioteca Einaudi, Torino 2014, 240 pp., € 22.00

2014

La recensione sottolinea i caratteri di collegamento tra la cultura cinese e la cultura giapponese a partire dallo spunto della cerimonia del tè. The review underlines the elements of continuity between the Chinese culture and the Japanese one starting from the tea ceremony tradition.

Local culture in the context of international tourism : Japanese tourists' perceptions of the culture of Saariselkä and the views of Japanese travel …

2012

In tourism, cultures are often used as resources to attract tourists. This is because tourism is generated by difference. So that the culture of a tourist destination can be consumed by tourists the culture needs to go through commodification, a process through which part of the culture turns into a product or a service. Knowing how a culture is used for tourism practice is important from the viewpoint of the cultural sustainability of tourism. The present study primarily aims at examining how the local culture is dealt with by the Japanese in Saariselkä through tourism. The study concentrates on how Japanese tourists perceive the local culture during their stay and how the Japanese travel …

Multiethnic Japanese-English Bilinguals' Meal Time Talk

2014

This study employs sequential conversation analysis and membership categorization analysis to codeswitching multiethnic, multicultural and multilingual Japanese-English speakers. The research examines how participants accomplish social actions and goals such as teasing, planning schedules, complaining about family members, and being friends. In doing these social actions, transportable ethnic, linguistic, and cultural identities become emergent. Hence, this research shows instances of linguistic, multiethnic, and multicultural categories constructed and utilized for situational tasks and locally emergent goals. Furthermore, this study sees acts of codeswitching as a communicative resource t…

A comparison between Japanese and French cost management-Contingency and institutional perspectives

2018

National audience; From an historical perspective, management accounting is a very recent phenomenon (see Johnson & Kaplan, 1987) and is culturally grounded in a few old-industrialized countries, in Europe: Germany, United-Kingdom, France, but also in Japan and in the United-Stated. Notwithstanding the cultural dominance of English-speaking countries on management, non-English speaking countries keep strong institutional and cultural roots that still influence their ways of managing companies. This is the case when looking at management accounting and more especially at cost accounting and cost management practices (now cost accounting/management). This paper, based on contingency and insti…

Child-Centered and Teacher-Directed Practices in Two Different Countries: A Descriptive Case Study in Finnish and Japanese Grade 1 Classrooms

2023

This descriptive case study examined how teaching practices were evidenced in Grade 1 classrooms in two different cultural and educational contexts, Finland and Japan. Teachers’ teaching practices were video-recorded in 53 classrooms in Finland and six classrooms in Japan and rated with the Early Childhood Classroom Observation Measure by trained investigators. Four Finnish teachers and two Japanese teachers having the highest scores in either child-centered or teacher-directed practices were selected for a descriptive case study to take a closer look at how teaching practices in terms of management, climate, and instruction are evidenced in authentic classroom situations. The analysis reve…

Influence of cultural difference on mobile user experience : a case study of the Nokia phone in Japanese mobile culture

2009

Sodan uhka Yhdysvaltain Japanin suurlähetystöraporteissa vuosina 1932-1941

2014

Tässä työssä tutkittiin Yhdysvaltain Japanin suurlähetystön raportointia Yhdysvaltain ulkoministeriöön vuosina 1932–41, jolloin suurlähettiläänä toimi Joseph C. Grew. Päälähteenä tutkimuksessa olivat Wisconsin-Madisonin ja Illinoisin kirjastojen verkkosivuilta löytyvät suurlähetystöraportit ja vertailevana aineistona käytettiin joitakin artikkeleita The New York Timesista, sekä Foreign Affairs-lehdestä. Aineistosta etsittiin merkkejä sodan alkamisesta Tyynellämerellä, sekä pyrittiin luomaan kokonaiskuvaa suurlähetystön ja ulkoministeriön välisestä kirjeenvaihdosta kyseisenä ajanjaksona. Samalla tutkittiin, miten kansainvälinen poliittinen tilanne vaikutti Japanin ja Yhdysvaltojen poliittise…