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This paper summarizes and analyzes the present situation of overseas development of Chinese book publishing industry. Opportunities for overseas development of Chinese book publishing industry include: Economic globalization, the growth of Chinese cultural industry, support and push for government policy, the trend of Chinese culture to the world. Through the construction of the book publishing industry...
With the increasingly globalisation of the world, interaction with people from different cultures than ours is more likely than ever. Knowing how to correctly approach and interact with people that have different social norms than us is a necessary condition to live in this multicultural world. This project provides a tool to learn how to adapt the way we behave. This is achieved using a virtual reality...
Modest fashion is driven by underlying Islamic mandate to preserve modesty, as laid forth in the Quran and the Sunna. Especially for women, they should cover the body from head to hands and feet. As majority religion in Indonesia, the developing of modest fashion has been growing rapidly. The appearing of new designers who create new modest fashion styles have been contributed to development of modern...
Computing technology has changed local culture and has been changed by it. The web extra at https://youtu.be/StKxA4SaplU is an audio recording of author David Alan Grier reading the first installment of his new Global Code column, in which he contemplates how computing technology has both changed and been changed by local culture--and what this might mean for our field and for the world.
As the world becomes more globally integrated and interdependent, college graduates must be prepared to meet the new challenges of globalization. Students should be made aware of their critical roles in society as the world economy becomes more globally integrated and increasingly exposed to new challenges, threats, opportunities for innovative solutions, and rewards. Engineering students in particular...
The aim of the proposed 360-degree virtual reality (VR) documentary explores questions of identity in the multi-ethnic environment of Taiwan, the connection to perception, tradition, and globalization, as well as how these in turn characterize culture in Taiwan as distinct in the region. The VR framework presented here was conceived by Richard Cornelisse for providing an installation of multi-dimensional...
Globalisation is one of the key terms used to describe actual trends as positive, but there are many aspects of this concept that should be carefully considered, such as people's cultural identity. Africa is one of the most diverse and culturally rich continents in the world, something that is not widely known. Heritage is one of the building blocks of cohesion and solidarity of the society and in...
This chapter analyzes the development of a leader within a global corporation, and discusses qualities needed in a global leader. Broadly speaking, these qualities fall into three categories: general leadership qualities, cultural adaptability, and upbringing and personality. A global leader is required to have the capacity for envisioning. Envisioning means being able to set future direction in an...
This paper aims to approach from the ethical perspective the relationship between medical education of healthcare services providers and globalization. Starting from the argument that the approach from the ethical perspective of medical education within the context of globalization allows for a better understanding of the requirements of contemporary medical act, the main issues refer to the ethical...
A learning philosophy, as discussed in this paper, is a collection of beliefs about how one learns and approaches learning activities and tasks. Learning is often studied from the instructor's point of view, but learning from the student's perspective is not examined much. A baseline understanding of how students learning philosophies might be disclosed and interpreted are described by the nineteen...
This paper presents a dynamic model that shows the evolving patterns of relationships between mother companies and their foreign subsidiaries. Specifically, this paper shows four different types of evolution between mother companies and their subsidiaries: (1) mutual dependence (early stage), (2) adaptation to local needs (intermediate stage), (3) mutual dependence (later stage), and (4) global expansion...
The impetus mechanism of sustainable innovation in manufacturing enterprises under globalization is studied in the paper. On the basis of analyzing the existing studies on innovation in impetus mechanism, new factors influencing sustainable innovation in manufacturing enterprises under globalization are concluded as internal and external ones. The internal motivating factors include the entrepreneur's...
Cross-border deployment of business operations provides an opportunity not only for enlarging the market but also for getting new value-creation knowledge. Rather than pursue a uniform across-the-board strategy, semi-globalization focusing on both similarities and local differences is becoming an important theme for local "hidden champion companies” to operate a sustainable service-oriented business...
Most of the critical challenges seen in the past decades have impacted citizens in a global way. Given shrinking resources, educationists find preparing students for the global market place a formidable challenge. Hence exposing students to multi-lateral educational initiatives are critical to their growth, understanding and future contributions. This paper focuses on European Union's Erasmus Mundus...
The use of e-commerce is rapidly increasing day after day. On the other hand, e-businesses started to globalize their supply chain to serve customers worldwide. Although it was a successful strategy in certain regions, it failed in some other regions as well. Companies cannot serve customers as they are homogenies. Each region or country has its own culture, preferences and social relationships. This...
The globalization of education and particularly engineering education often results in pedagogical instruction being given by instructors not speaking the native language of the audience. Today English is the language frequently selected to bridge this communication gap through traditional oral translation either simultaneous or interactive. This single avenue of communication is simply not adequate...
With the trend of globalization, more and more Chinese companies have started the journey of internationalization through direct investment or merger and acquisition. In this process, how to adapt to different cultural backgrounds becomes increasingly important, and the conceptualization of cultural intelligence receives extensive attention. Cultural Intelligence(CQ), as a new type of intelligence...
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