Research

The State of the World: A Framework

February 21, 2012 (Vietnamica) — The evolution of geopolitics is cyclical. Powers rise, fall and shift. Changes occur in every generation in an unending ballet. However, the period between 1989 and 1991 was unique in that a long cycle of human history spanning hundreds of years ended, and with it a shorter cycle also came to a close. The world is still reverberating from the events of that period.

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Entrepreneurs Optimistic About 2012

February 16, 2012 (Vietnamica) — Owners of startup companies are surprisingly optimistic about 2012, according to the first Kauffman/LegalZoom Startup Confidence Index released recently by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and LegalZoom. More than one-fourth of the respondents said they plan to hire additional staff in 2012, and twice as many of them expect the economy to improve or stay the same (68 percent) as those who expect it to deteriorate (31 percent).

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Examining Relationships between Culture, Creativity and Business Stage in an Emerging Market: A Categorical Data Analysis of Vietnam’s Data Set

February 14, 2012 (Vietnamica) — In this article, Vuong et al. offer a new way of exploring relationships between three different dimensions of a business operation, namely the stage of business development, the methods of creativity and the major cultural values. Although separately, each of these has gained enormous attention from the management research community, evidenced by a large volume of research studies, there have been not many studies that attempt to describe the logic that connect these three important aspects of a business; let alone empirical evidences that support any significant relationships among these variables.

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Vietnam’s National Culture Scores by Geert Hofstede

Vietnam’s National Culture Scores by Geert Hofstede

February 2, 2012 (Vietnamica) – Professor Geert Hofstede explores the Vietnamese culture through the lens of the 5-D Model, and provides us with a good overview of the deep drivers of Vietnamese culture relative to other world cultures (Hofstede, visited Feb. 2).

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Americans Doing Business in Vietnam: Communication Differences (pdf)

February 1, 2012 (Vietnamica) — In this paper, Katrine Syppli Kohl focuses on differences that are likely to cause problems for U.S. American managers operating in Vietnam. At first, Hofstede’s cultural dimensions of power distance, individualism, and longterm orientation are used to pinpoint key differences in Vietnamese and American business culture. Second, stable and transitional concepts of culture are delineated as they apply to the topic. Finally, areas of communication are discussed that benefit from special attention because of differences between Vietnamese and American culture.

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Infographic: Black History Month

A rice field in Bac Giang Province © 2009 Vuong Quan Hoang

January 11, 2012 (Vietnamica) – Black History Month was created by Dr. Carter G. Woodson. He was born to a former slaves, worked in a coal mine, started high school at age 20 – eventually went to Harvard and earned a PhD. He was dismayed at both the near-total invisibility of Black Americans in his history textbooks and the degrading manner with which they were infrequently portrayed.

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