This paper reviews recent books supporting the development of using qualitative methods in interpretative research. Revolving around three major issues, i.e. increasing the level of rigour, using software packages and new methodological developments, the paper outlines the specific contributions of these books and lays out further needs for development. [PUB ABSTRACT]
... with punch cards and personal computers with their statistical packages up to super-comput... is practically impossible for non-native speakers, e.g. in Japanese interviews, or a lack of density...
Measuring culture is a central issue in international management research and is traditionally accomplished using indices of cultural values. Herein the researchers present a new linguistic-based measure of cultural distance (based on linguistic genealogical classification) that is both more fundamental and more widely applicable than values surveys. Structural equation modeling techniques are used to show links to the cultural values dimensions delineated by Hofstede (1980) to show the key results of this study. The researchers also demonstrate relationships between linguistic distance and other measures of managerial values using three additional data sets. The analyses provides strong support for the association between language spoken and managerial values. Differences in managerial...
..." structure of English helps English speakers ignore social context and subtly tends to elevate ... and (2) the relative complexity of computer key boards for other languages relative to English...
The affective state of car drivers has a great impact on their driving behavior. In case of a high stress level, car drivers take more risk in turn over, car following and in neglecting traffic warning signs. In the paper we present first a list of factors which have an impact on the psychological state of the car driver with a focus on the affective state of car drivers. Next we give an outline of our multimodal system to assess the affective state of car drivers by analysis of facial expressions and speech signals. The output of our system is the basic input of a stress-o-meter providing the amount of the stress in a graphical way. We assume that this leads to a reduction of physical arousal and mental reappraisal of the situation. We present some experimental results of our assessmen...
... of the emotional state of users of computer systems. The emotional state of a user can be expr... contain recordings from seven different speakers showing three emotions. By using a fusion model ba...
In this paper, the researchers explore the use of foreign languages in qualitative interviewing, an issue previously treated as a mere technical consideration and largely neglected in the monolingual, English-dominated environment of international business research. Drawing on literature from linguistic anthropology and qualitative interviewing methodology, they provide a holistic view of foreign language use based on the experiences of 34 scholars from different countries. Their findings show the multiple decisions that researchers make about language use, and their effects on data accuracy and authenticity, rapport-building and the construction of shared understanding.
... it is used in everyday interactions, by speakers who are conceptualized as being historically and i...We used NVivo, a software program for computer-aided qualitative data analysis, to enhance consis...
Outsourcing has gained much prominence in managerial practice and academic discussions in the last two decades or so. Yet, we still do not understand the full implications of outsourcing strategy for corporate performance. The authors longitudinally analyze three cases of major consumer electronics manufacturers, Emerson Radio from the US, Japan's Sony and Philips from the Netherlands to understand the dynamic process related to their sourcing strategies. They develop an evolutionary stage model that relates outsourcing to competence development inside the firm and shows that a vicious cycle may emerge. Results suggest that each of these firms had faced a loss of manufacturing competitiveness in its home country, to which it responded by offshoring and then outsourcing production. When ...
... the words of Kutaragi, President of Sony Computer Entertainment Corp (Nikkei Weekly 2003). In the ne... 60-70 percent of its radio and speakers manufacturing and around 50 percent of its compone...
... Conference on Digital Communications and Computer Applications (DCCA2007), I would like to thank the... addition, four tutorials and two keynote speakers have been accepted in this conference. The editors...
Tuckova and Zetocha study the connectivity between children's developmental dysphasia and assess the degree of perception and impairment of speech by using artificial neural networks and using knowledge of phonetics. A comparative voice analysis of healthy children and ill children is also performed.
... in the Laboratory of Information and Computer Science (CIS) in the Helsinki University of Techno...The recordings of these speakers were taken from radio weather forecasts. The recor...
In this article, the authors examine the effects of language on the transfer of knowledge within multinational companies. They unbundle language from the culture box and use the basic communication model to show how language affects all stages. They also examine a range of influences -- cost, transfer medium, teams, networks, trust, staff movements and motivation -- on international knowledge transfer to demonstrate how language effects their operation. They develop the concept of language as a "reconfiguration agent" to explain its extensive, pervasive, on-going and system-altering characteristics.
... own initiative, he sought out Spanish speakers throughout Kone, and passed this onto his managers... provision of capabilities such as computer simulation (to support learning-by-doing) and smar...
This study applies the construct of brand equity in a country context, and measures the value-added with which the name of a country endows a product or a brand as perceived by the individual consumer. Specifically, based on Yoo and Donthu's (2001) brand equity scale, a country brand equity scale is developed and empirically tested for its psychometric properties; subsequently a model linking (home) country image and product preferences with country brand equity as an intervening variable is estimated. Results indicate (a) that country brand equity is influenced by country image perceptions, (b) that country brand equity positively impacts on product preferences, and (c) that the latter are not directly influenced by country image perceptions.
... was translated into Spanish by native speakers and back-translated into English by experts of the...A current example is the well-known computer manufacturer Acer that spent considerable time and...
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