China opening to the world: The case of Google
By Andrés Molina
Every time a company is looking for business abroad, it would be facing differences between the host country’s culture and their own culture, which make a difficult decision to settle in foreign soil. Google Inc., the famous Internet search engine opened its office in Beijing, and it had to change the way the company was working in the rest of the world, which has been the target of all the critics. How to handle these differences? How to decide not to go to do business in one country? Those are not easy questions to answer, but every time a company attempts to go abroad such questions have to be asked.
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Critically consider Geert Hofstede's contribution to intercultural communication
By Andrés Molina
The intercultural communication has been a concern for the last century, the new world order is making the international communication an everyday aspect. Professor Geert Hofstede tried to make an approach of national cultures to interact between countries. His model has helped many of researchers around the world to understand the people’s behavior. This paper gives a short overview of the Professor Geert Hofstede’s contribution to intercultural communication.
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Consider the role of media in the construction of cultural identity. Critically discuss how images of the other are constructed and represented in various forms of mass media. What impact do these representations have on such phenomena as stereotyping and otherization?
By Andrés Molina
The mass media and the Internet have a great power influencing people, and the way these means show the people is the way children and the rest of the world are going to accept them. The masculinity, the manhood, the role of the women, the minorities, etc are concept learned from the media, which has a big impact in today’s international and intercultural communication.
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Entendiendo la toma de decisiones en la internacionalización de las Pymes colombianas
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Tesis doctoral donde busco demostrar la influencia que tiene el ambiente competitivo, económico, sociopolítico y el trabajo en redes o clusters en la toma de decisión de internacionalización de las Pymes. |
