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Finnish-Chinese intercultural negotiation : power positioning and search for common ground
No full text‘Rising China’ is a term that has come to refer to China’s march to being number
one, the speed of its economic growth, and its investment around the world during
last two decades. In Finland, government agencies have been established to promote investment, trade, and co-operation with China, while regional and local
governments are also actively involved. Meanwhile, much of the world is now
competing for the attention of China, so the power dynamic is tending to shift in
favour of the Chinese. This developing context has been examined in previous
studies primarily from the perspectives of politics, economics, and management
studies.
The overarching aim of this study is to investigate emerging power relations
between Finns as sellers of investment opportunities and products and Chinese as
investors, buyers, and partners. The study predominantly builds on Positioning
Theory (Harré, 1991). It uses methodological tools of ethnographically framed in
terviewing and observation.
The study comprises five articles - empirical research reports exploring the
major themes in data collected – adjustment of Finns to the Chinese, search of
common ground with Chinese representatives, guest-host positioning during delegation visits, humor in negotiations, and the language aspect in co-operation. Five
styles of positioning regarding power and common ground were found – adjustment, use of existing common ground, autonomy, ‘soft’ power, and pressure /
hedging; the character this typology was found to correspond to phases of the five
Chinese elements (Wu Xing). While the data suggest that both Finnish and Chinese
representatives use all of these strategies, Finnish representatives tended to rely on
active responses such as adjustment and pressure/hedging, while Chinese representatives more often resorted to a stance of autonomy. The dynamic among these
phases is illustrated using the model of a rope, which suggests the integral nature
of change from one style into another, as well as the ways power, common ground,
and culture are all intertwined. A variety of external and internal factors that influence the positioning of Finnish and Chinese representatives could also be traced
from the articles, such as organizational roles, meeting places, discourses about
national characteristics, and considerations of ‘face’. This further reveals the complexity of positioning regarding power and common ground.unknown accessibilityei tietoa saavutettavuudest
The new politics of global academic mobility and migration
Get PDFThis book brings together recent research on Global Academic Mobility and Migration (GAMM) from a variety of perspectives and contexts. There is now a widespread consensus that most countries and world regions are witnessing GAMM. Bringing together leading scholars from Australasia and Europe, this volume offers readers detailed account of the new politics of such acts of mobility and migration. The following key issues are dealt with: mobility determinants, social injustice, management and administrative problems, as well as teaching-learning challenges. The book invites students, researchers and practitioners to reflect further on the nature of today’s education on the move
Increased understanding and empathy through intercultural training? The case of cultural awareness training for military personnel
No full textBook Review: Intercultural Masquerade: New Orientalism, New Occidentalism, Old Exoticism, eds. Regis Machart et al. (Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer 2016) ISBN 9783662470558
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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