Bernier and Elise Meyer Supervisor: Jean-Charles Languilaire Level: Bachelor Thesis in Business Administration‚ Marketing Key words: Culture‚ international marketing‚ marketing strategies‚ standardization and adaptation Purpose: Compare two strategies‚ standardization and adaptation‚ to show how companies manage cultural differences. Method: Our research method is a descriptive one. Then‚ we collect data from secondary sources such as the books‚ articles‚ journals and studies. Then‚ we judge
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ADAPTATION AS INTERPRETATION The debate on cinematic adaptations of literary works was for many years dominated by the questions of fidelity to the source and by the tendencies to prioritize the literary originals over their film versions. (Whelehan:2006) Adaptations were seen by most critics as inferior to the adapted texts‚ as “minor”‚ “subsidiary”‚ “derivative” or “secondary” products‚ lacking the symbolic richness of the books and missing their “spirit”. (Hutcheon:2006) Critics could not forgive
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Organizational Adaptation: Choice vs. Determinism By L.G. Hrebiniak & W.F. Joyce; summarized by Tristan Latour Introduction There were two views concerning organizational adaptation: * It’s a process reflecting choice and selection * It’s a necessary reaction to peremptory environmental forces/conditions (Note: in this paper‚ adaptation is interpreted as simply “change”‚ including both proactive & reactive behavior) This paper: 1) Choice and determinism are not two opposite ends
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‘Nosferatu’ was the first motion picture adaptation of Stoker’s ‘Dracula’ and one of the first films altogether. Although
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Report on the Cultural Adaptation on the PG Students in Middlesex University Executive Summary: When new students attend university in a new culture from their own culture‚ behaviors and expectations change. According to Zhou at el (2008)‚ traditionally researchers thought that culture shock was only about medical conditions. Historical theory has changed to contemporary theory of acculturation. This theory contains of cultural learning‚ stress and coping and social identification. We found
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Journal of Adolescence 1996‚ 19‚ 405–416 Identity as adaptation to social‚ cultural‚ and historical context ROY F. BAUMEISTER AND MARK MURAVEN Adaptation may be the best way to conceptualize the complex‚ multilateral relationship between individual identity and sociocultural context‚ because it recognizes the causal importance of culture yet also recognizes individual choice and change. This argument is developed by considering how several historical changes in the sociocultural context
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The Adaptation of Transcendentalism None of the transcendentalist thinkers were very popular during their lives. Their ideas were all thought to be wild and barbaric when really they were just ahead of their time. Today‚ those same ideas that were thought to be too free and wild are actually seen as fairly tame and mild. Writers such as Walt Whitman‚ Ralph Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were all misunderstood by society during their lives. The typical lifestyle during the time of the early transcendentalists
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The Roy Adaptation Model Roy began work on her theory in the 1960s. She drew from existing work of a physiological psychologist‚ and behavioral‚ systems and role theorists. She was keenly interested in the psycho/social aspects of the person from the start and concentrated her education on this aspect of Person. Thus‚ the language/thinking of psychology and sociology became second nature to her. The need for intense study of the language and ideas behind Roy’s Adaptation Model is its biggest
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Roy Adaptation Model Jeanette Ratliff‚ RN Chamberlain College of Nursing Course Number: Summer 2011 Nursing Theorist: Roy Adaptation Model Sister Callista Roy was not only a pioneer in the field of nursing‚ but also a leader. Her dedication to the health community is inarguable. As serving numerous roles as leader‚ her thoughts and visions touched many. One example of her mark in nursing is the Roy Adaptation Model. It is in this model that health is defined as a state of adaptation that
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Physiological Effects of Ventolin Ventolin is a brand name of the drug albuterol sulfate HFA‚ and its generic name is adrenergic bronchodilator. It is mostly taken as an inhalator‚ but can also be taken as tablets or syrup. It treats the symptoms of bronchospasms. Bronchospasm is an abnormal contraction of the smooth muscle of the bronchi‚ narrowing and obstructing the respiratory airway‚ resulting in coughs‚ wheezing or difficulty in breathing. The chief cause of this condition is asthma
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