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| Buddhas and bratwurst: Ethical identity in global contexts | ||
| 作者 | McDonnell, Patrick |
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| 出版日期 | 2006.03.17 |
| 頁次 | 176 |
| 出版者 | ProQuest / UMI |
| 出版地 | Michigan, US [密西根州, 美國] |
| 資料類型 | 書籍=Book |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 關鍵詞 | 詮釋學=Hermeneutics |
| 摘要 | Statement of the problem. This research addresses the question of how Thais and Germans co-create ethical decisions in German organizations based in Thailand. This exploration is important because broadening our understanding of how one's identity and perspective of ethical decisions is negotiated in a multicultural and multilingual business context is critical to understanding the role Thais and Germans play in one another's social, regional and global development, and can inform us in making more culturally appropriate interpretations in global contexts. Procedures and methods. Research based on the Critical Hermeneutic approach to ethical decision-making seeks to understand how participants in global organizational contexts co-create ethical decisions based on the interplay of one another's communicative norms and cultural assumptions. Critical Hermeneutics places the researcher at the center of a social exploration to enlarge his understanding of how ethical identities are formed in global contexts with at least two cultures, in the act of language, conversation and the co-creation of meaning. The three main themes which act as the conceptual framework for the analysis include: Discourse Ethics, Storytelling and Narrative Identity. Results. Global institutions have fractured the life-worlds of individuals and threatens the cohesion of socio-historical contexts while operating beyond the powers of state and national institutions. The private sphere of culture, history and tradition has been severed by a globalized public sphere of techno-rational, a-historical decision-making that silences the voices of local cultures and traditions. A public space must be reappropriated within the context of the private sphere in order to honor the particular traits of local culture to more equitably develop global economic activity. Conclusions. Ethical decision-making in organizations must begin with a deep acknowledgement of cultural contexts, physical and abstract, historical and modern, if they are to engage in ethical choices with any accuracy and integrity. To fail to do so illustrates a lack of concern for those members of the local culture we work with, in addition to the economic and social influences organizations often have on local surroundings. |
| ISBN | 0542020610 |
| 點閱次數 | 276 |
| 建檔日期 | 2006.09.14 |
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