The concept of cultural distance is controversial and widely debated in the study of MNCs. This study argues that expectancy violation is a better predictor of conflict and socio-cultural adaptation. Furthermore, conflict management style, rather than, conflict, is a more reliable predictor of socio-cultural adaptation. Possible explanation is given based on institutional theory and the debatable nature of cultural distance and its measurement. New perspectives of culture and its connotation in this new era of post-third-wave globalization are proposed.
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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0147176724001469
邓一恒
Yiheng Deng is Professor at Intercultural Institute of Shanghai International Studies University. She received her PhD in Communication from the University of Arizona in December, 2018, and did research and audited classes as Visiting Scholar at Seidman Business School of Grand Valley State University from 2015 to 2016. She taught classes such as, intercultural communication, intercultural business communication, IC research design and analysis, writing English research paper, argumentation, and critical thinking. Her research focuses on intercultural communication, conflict management, and discourse analysis. She has published in a number of SSCI journals, such as Journal of Asian Business and Management, International Journal of Intercultural Relations, Emerging Adulthood, Management Communication Quarterly, International Journal of Conflict Management, Chinese Journal of Communication, a book chapter published by Routledge, and a book published by Nankai University Press. She has received national grants from National Social Science Foundation of China and Chinese Education Ministry.
邓一恒，上海外国语大学跨文化研究中心教授，2008年12月从亚利桑那大学传播学系获得博士学位，曾于2015-2016年在大谷州立大学（Grand Valley State University）的希德曼商学院（Seidman Business School）访学一年。她主要教授跨文化交际、跨文化商务沟通、跨文化研究设计及分析、学术论文写作、论辩学及批判性思维等课程。研究方向有跨文化交际、商务沟通、冲突管理以及话语分析。她在一些知名国际期刊上发表数篇文章，比如《亚洲商务与管理期刊》、《跨文化关系国际期刊》、《成年初显期》、《管理传播季刊》、《国际冲突管理期刊》、《中国传播期刊》等，以及由Routledge出版社出版的论文集论文，及两本专著。她主持完成了国家社科基金项目一项，教育部社科基金项目一项。
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