National culture diversity in new venture boards: The role of founders' relational demography

Purpose Arab female academics struggle to advance within their universities in both academic and managerial ranks. Accordingly, this study aims to investigate the factors hindering Arab women’s academic career development through studying the case of Jordanian academic women. Design/methodology/approach Data were gathered through document analysis (Jordan constitution, Jordanian Labour Law and its amendments, higher education and scientific research law, Jordanian universities’ law and universities’ HR policies and regulations), interviews with 20 female academics and a focus group with 13 female academics (members of the Association of Jordanian Female Academics). Findings The results indicate female academics as tokens facing many interconnected and interrelated barriers embodied in cultural, social, economic and legal factors. The findings support the general argument proposed in human resource management (HRM) literature regarding the influence of culture on HRM practices and also propose that the influence of culture extends to having an impact on HR policies’ formulation as well as the formal legal system. Originality/value The influence of culture on women’s career development and various HR practices is well established in HR literature. But the findings of this study present a further pressure of culture. HR policies and other regulations were found to be formulated in the crucible of national culture. Legalizing discriminatory issues deepens the stereotypical pictures of women, emphasizing the domestic role of women and making it harder to break the glass ceiling and old-boy network.

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Anime in Academia: Representative Object, Media Form, and Japanese Studies

Arts ◽

10.3390/arts7040056 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 7 (4) ◽

pp. 56 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jaqueline Berndt

Keyword(s):

National Culture ◽

Academic Research ◽

Vital Role ◽

Popular Media ◽

Media Ecology ◽

Methodological Issues ◽

Research And Teaching ◽

Japanese Studies ◽

Media Form

The transcultural consumption of Japan-derived popular media has prompted a significant amount of academic research and teaching. Instead of addressing globalization or localization as such, this article investigates the interplay of anime research and the institution of Japanese studies outside of Japan, addressing recurrent methodological issues, in particular, related to representation and mediation, intellectual critique and affective engagement, subculture and national culture. The inclination towards objects and representation in socio-cultural as well as cinema-oriented Japanese-studies accounts of anime is first introduced and, after considering discursive implications of the name anime, contrasted with media-studies approaches that put an emphasis on relations, modalities, and forms. In order to illustrate the vital role of forms, including genre, similarities between TV anime and Nordic Noir TV drama series are sketched out. Eventually, the article argues that the study of anime is accommodated best by going beyond traditional polarizations between text and context, media specificity and media ecology, area and discipline.

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The effects of national culture on the role of participation in different task situations

Advances in Accounting ◽

10.1016/j.adiac.2010.01.002 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 26 (1) ◽

pp. 128-133 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Chong M. Lau ◽

Jerome Caby

Keyword(s):

National Culture

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The Study of Music Teaching in Universities and the Inheritance of National Music Culture

Advances in Higher Education ◽

10.18686/ahe.v3i2.1437 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 159

Author(s):

Xuenan Yang

Keyword(s):

Education Reform ◽

National Culture ◽

Education System ◽

Positive Impact ◽

Music Teaching ◽

Music Culture ◽

Music Literacy ◽

National Music ◽

The Relationship

<p>With the development of the society and the progress of the time, the pace of China's education reform is more and more steady. The development of the education system is gradually perfect. Music teaching is an indispensable part of the teaching system of colleges and universities, which has a positive impact on the improvement of students' music literacy. However, due to the interference of various factors, the national music culture has not been well inherited and developed, leading to the increasingly westernized development of music in China. This paper analyzes and discusses the relationship between university music teaching and national culture in detail, and puts forward a series of strategies and programs that are conducive to the inheritance of national music culture, which plays a role of reference and reference for university music teaching.</p>

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