Power distance is a concept introduced by Geert Hofstede, formerly professor of organisational anthropology and international management at the University of Limburg in the Netherlands. He was an employee at different companies including IBM and has brought about a paradigm change in intercultural studies with his book Culture’s Consequences: International Differences in Work-Related Values, Behaviors, [...]

It took me a while to apply the inter-cultural knowledge I have to the web. It was that difficult, because I had to wrap my head around a very obvious contradiction. But to explain what my problem was I need to give you some background knowledge first.

low-context vs. high-context
These are terms first used by E.T. [...]

Every time I view a Chinese website or a website using Chinese characters (traditional or simplified) I am overwhelmed by the amount of information depicted.
To demonstrate what I mean and analyze it I picked out the website of yahoo for Taiwan and the USA.

You can clearly see that the page of Yahoo USA is offering [...]

Lately I got back in touch with Prof. Peter Franklin of my university, for whom I was working from 2007-2008. He was able to give me an update of his work on Intercultural studies.
His book ‘The Mindful International Manager‘, which he wrote in cooperation with his friend and founder of York Associates has been published, [...]