Cultural Differences between Arabs and Americans

Buda, Richard; Elsayed‐Elkhouly, Sayed M.

doi:10.1177/0022022198293006

Cited by 92 publications

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“…While there are several degrees of collectivism, and Lebanon is not the most collectivist of Arab cultures (Pulford et al 2005;Ayyash-Abdo 2001;Buda and Elsayed-Elkhouly 1998), the Lebanese culture can still be considered a collectivist society. ''Collectivism pertains to societies such as the Arab society, in which people from birth onwards are integrated into strong, cohesive in-groups.…”

Section: The Influence Of Culturementioning

confidence: 99%

Academic Dishonesty in the Middle East: Individual and Contextual Factors

2008

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Little work has been done on academic dishonesty in the Middle East. This research investigates the nature of the relationship between contextual factors and academic dishonesty using a sample from three private universities in Lebanon, and compares the results to a sample from seven large universities in the US. Using the basic model of McCabe et al. (Research in Higher Education 43(3):357-378, 2002), we found additional evidence for the strong role perception of peers' behavior plays in understanding student decisions concerning academic integrity. Cross cultural comparisons of attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors regarding academic dishonesty were pivotal in this research. Our results support the view that Lebanese university students are strongly influenced by the norms of the collectivist society in which they are raised as compared to the more individualistic society found in the United States.

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Section: The Influence Of Culturementioning

confidence: 99%

Academic Dishonesty in the Middle East: Individual and Contextual Factors

2008

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“…Intracountry differences may (and do) exist, but it is expected in this study that intercountry differences will account for the greater part of variation in reactions to crowd. This method has been successfully used in similar studies investigating cross-cultural differences (Buda & Elsayed-Elkhouly, 1998;Harcar & Karakaya, 2005;Reynolds, Simintiras, & Diamantopoulos, 2003;Samiee & Jeong, 1994). In order to ensure comparable samples with regard to age, undergraduate students were used as respondents in this research.…”

Section: Samplementioning

confidence: 99%

Customers' Responses to Crowded Restaurant Environments: Cross-Cultural Differences Between American and Chinese

Kim

Park

2008

Journal of Hospitality & Leisure Marketing

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The study aims at demonstrating cultural differences between American and Chinese in terms of customer's perceptions and satisfaction of crowded environment within the context of restaurant setting. It has been noted that culture has a substantial impact on customer's affection and judgment, and crowding in service environments is a critical antecedent of customer's satisfaction. Considering the two main theme, this study examined how the cultural difference plays a role in predicting customer's satisfaction within the crowded restaurant setting. With the use of customers from the two different cultures in an experimental study, participant's responses to similarly crowded environment in a restaurant were compared. It is revealed that customer's perception of crowdedness negatively influences their satisfaction, but the relationships vary depending on customer's cultural background. Cultural difference in predicting customer's satisfaction also appears to be substantial. .

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“…Examples include Ellis' (1999) one-country study which conceptually looked at the challenges that Lebanon faces with its neighbors; Kozan's (2002) one-country empirical study of conflict management styles in Turkey; Karacaer, Gohar, Aygü n, and Sayin (2009) two-country comparison of the ethical decision orientations of Pakistani and Turkish professionals; and Khilji, Zeidman, Drory, Tirmizi, and Srinivas's (2010) three-country study of impression management strategies that included two GME countries (Israel and Pakistan). In addition to these few-country comparison studies, another approach has been to pool societal-level data across countries within the Middle East region and conduct comparisons with other regions of the world (Buda & Elsayed-Elkhouly, 1998;Hofstede, 2001;Kabasakal & Bodur, 2002).…”

Section: An Overview Of Relevant Middle East Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%