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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Psychic distance"”.
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Multinational Teams: The Relationship Between Work Values and Productivity and the Moderating Effect of Degree of Operational Integration
… the relationship between team productivity and psychic distance, which is a measure of country-level cultural differences. Work values were assessed using The Values Scale (Neville & Super, 1989), perceptions of team productivity were assessed used an instrument by Kirkman and Rosen (1999), …
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Recovering a "Lost" Genre: The Essay
… composition student.In chapter two, "Psychic Distance and a Call for Craft," I examine the reasons rhetoric and composition has neglected expressivism, and I argue that the discipline should focus more attention on issues of craft--particularly psychic distance, a concept that I …
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Not Too Scared to Enter: Understanding the Uppsala Model’s Complexity as SME Decision Makers Enter High-Risk Countries
… flow of information between markets, are called “psychic distance.” By completing 34 detailed, semi-structured interviews with executives who have recently made significant financial or resource commitments to enter 28 different challenging countries, this is the first study to focus with a deep …
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Charitable Giving to Distant Others: An extended theory of planned behaviour model
… in a just world, justice restoration efficacy, psychic distance, multiethnic identity and cultural exposure. A survey of 417 individuals, from both Canada and the United states, was conducted examining the attitudes and intentions of potential donors toward distant others. The results were …
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The Painted Box
… use of epistolary elements and manipulation of psychic distance as character-development tools. The effect of intertwining multiple points of view is to provide the reader with a split impression of the protagonist, creating one world in which the reader views the protagonist within the confines …
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Creative Writing in the Threshold Narratives on Point of View and Perspective, Intertextuality, Place and Setting, and Metaphor
… cognizance, where they situate themselves on the psychic distance spectrum, and what tone they adopt (Chapter One); what criteria guide their selection of exemplary literary works (Chapter Two); how tutors and students are aǺfected by place, and how tutors design their settings (Chapter ȋree); …
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An exploration of strategies used by South African companies to expand into other African markets
… they choose markets that are physically and psychically close based on their internationalisation experience. Previous literature shows that larger firms are better able to absorb the initial cost of internationalisation and opt for a higher degree of control (Dunning, 1988), yet not much …
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Sacred Spaces, Public Places: The Intersection of Religion and Space in Three Chicago Communities, 1869-1932
… of transportation networks diminished the psychic distance between the north shore and downtown Chicago, the processes of urbanization forced churches to revision and remake themselves according to a menu of choices. Ultimately, urbanization wrought a profound transformation in the …
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THE INTERNATIONALISATION DECISION OF THE ENDOWED SME
… entry modes to regional markets with low psychic distance. Furthermore, the research establishes a link between the formal dimension of the institutional context and manufacturing SMEs’ deliberate accumulation of operational slack resources and highlights that SMEs internationalizing from …