Acculturation: A Review and an Exploratory Seven‐Nation Comparative Study

Abraham, Rebecca; Zikiye, Anthony

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“…Immigrants and expatriates who move on their own or in small numbers face a different situation (Samnani et al, 2012). Since attitudes and perceptions of home- versus host-culture aspects also tend to vary cross-culturally (Abraham and Zikiye, 1993; Earley and Mosakowski, 2000), it is also important to consider how acculturation processes vary across cultures.…”

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Acculturation and bicultural integration in organizations

Barker

2017

Int'l Jnl of Cross Cultural Management

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This study examined acculturation and bicultural integration in organizational settings, with particular attention to the factors that influence individuals' acculturation processes; the challenges and opportunities they face; the ways in which they integrate home-and host-culture features; and the conditions that facilitate third-culture building with host-culture members. A qualitative approach using in-depth interviews with Americans living in Sweden, Swedes living in the United States, and Swedish-American biculturals having grown up with ties to both countries was used to gain an in-depth understanding of the processes of acculturation in organizational contexts. Results emerging from a grounded theory analysis identify assimilation as the predominant acculturation approach for reasons of cultural preference. Culture-specific features are integrated in limited ways and third-culture building takes place in contexts where home-culture connections exist. Bicultural individuals integrate their two cultures by alternating between them as well as blending them. Theoretical implications are discussed.

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Section: Review Of Literaturementioning

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Acculturation and bicultural integration in organizations

Barker

2017

Int'l Jnl of Cross Cultural Management

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Marketing home and away: perceptions of managers in headquarters and subsidiaries

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Holbert²

2001

Journal of World Business

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Instrumental values: a five‐nation comparative study

Abraham

1998

Cross Cultural Management: An International Journal

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This study is a cross-national com para tive ex ami na tion of the in stru men tal val ues un der ly ing the be hav iour of man ag ers and pro fes sional staff in the United Stated, Ja maica, the Ba ha mas, Co lom bia and Is rael. The theo reti cal foun da tion for the study is pro vided by a re con cep tu ali sa tion of the tra ditional individualism-collectivism con struct into ver ti cal and hori zon tal dimen sions. Ver ti cal ity as sumes the ac cep tance of authority-ranking while hori zon tal ness fa vours equal ity. Based on the re sults of a prin ci pal com ponents fac tor analy sis, four value di men sions were de rived. US re spon dents were theo rised to be ver ti cally in di vidu al ist, Co lom bian, Ja mai can, and Baha mian re spon dents to be ver ti cally col lec tiv ist, and Is raeli re spon dents to be hori zon tally col lec tiv ist. Pre dicta bly, par tici pants from the United States fa voured the ver ti cally in di vidu al ist val ues of am bi tion and in de pend ence, while those from Co lom bia es poused cheer ful ness and for give ness. Con trary to ex pec ta tions, val ues pref er ences of Ja mai can and Ba ha mian re spon dents con formed closely to those from the United States, with am bi tion and in depend ence su per or di nat ing col lec tiv ist val ues of love, obe di ence and for giveness. Mixed re sults were ob tained for the Is raeli sam ple with the pres ence of cer tain hori zon tally col lec tiv ist val ues in clud ing love and obe di ence tempered by the ab sence of oth ers like cheer ful ness and for give ness. Theo retical and prac ti cal im pli ca tions are dis cussed.

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Acculturation: A Review and an Exploratory Seven‐Nation Comparative Study

Cited by 5 publications

References 14 publications

Acculturation and bicultural integration in organizations

Acculturation and bicultural integration in organizations

Marketing home and away: perceptions of managers in headquarters and subsidiaries

Instrumental values: a five‐nation comparative study

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