The relationship of Chinese cultural values and people's attitude towards corruption in Hong Kong

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siu-wai, Winnie Fung
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Chinese Cultural Values ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Desire and distance in Kaija Saariaho's Lonh

2003 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Sivuoja-Gunaratnam
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
The Self ◽  
Environmental Sounds ◽  
Feminine Subjectivity ◽  
Love Stories ◽  
Language And Music ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Narrative Convention ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This article explores the relationship of desire and distance in Kaija Saariaho's Lonh (1996) for soprano and electronics. The subject matter of Lonh is desire and romantic pleasures, anchored to feminine subjectivity, represented on stage by a soprano singer. Electronics provide the environmental sounds and amplify the singer's voice. Through Lonh looms a medieval song in the Occitan language, ‘Lanquan li jorn son lonc en mai’ by Jaufré Rudel, a famous troubadour in twelfth-century Provence. Saariaho reverses the narrative convention of love stories by presenting the most intimate encounter at the very beginning. In their succeeding encounters, the lovers move further away from each other. Similarly, in the course of Lonh the distance to Jaufré's song also increases. Luce Irigaray's concepts of love are used for an analysis of the relationship of the loving pair. By the end of Lonh the borderlines of speaking, singing, electronics, language and music collapse in Barthesian jouissance (bliss). The electronic technology in Lonh enables the re-investiture of cultural values, and the construction of flexible identities, crossing boundaries between the self and the other.

Organizational Hierarchy and Cultural Values

1997 ◽  
Vol 81 (3) ◽  
pp. 832-834 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald J. Burke
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Support Staff ◽  
Professional Services ◽  
Organizational Hierarchy ◽  
Dependent Variables ◽  
Professional Field ◽  
Four Levels ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Professional Services Firm

This study examined the relationship of organizational hierarchy and aspects of cultural values within a single large professional services firm. Four levels were considered: partners, managers, professional field staff, and secretarial support staff. The importance, presence, and gap between importance and presence of ten cultural values served as dependent variables. The highest and lowest hierarchical levels had more favorable opinions on the importance and presence of these cultural values. Implications for service to clients are drawn.

WHEN THE BUBBLE IS GOING TO BURST …

1999 ◽  
Vol 02 (03) ◽  
pp. 285-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
JING CHEN
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Stock Market ◽  
Stock Price ◽  
Price Change ◽  
Convertible Bond ◽  
Price Behavior ◽  
Clear Signal ◽  
Security Markets ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

There has been constant debate about the predictability of the security markets. We examine the relationship between the prices of a stock and its convertible bond during the Hong Kong stock market bubble of 1997 and its subsequent crash. We find that the price behavior of the share and the convertible bond not only gave a clear signal of the market reversal, but also the minimum range of the stock price change. This example offers concrete evidence that the market becomes highly predictable at times and gives us a chance to understand the relationship of the underlying stock and its derivatives during market bubbles.

Empirical Study of Trust in Chinese Organizations: Joint Venture versus State-Owned Enterprise

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (02) ◽  
pp. 139-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tingting He ◽  
Paul R. Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Joint Venture ◽  
Interpersonal Trust ◽  
Entrepreneurship Research ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
State Owned Enterprise ◽  
Chinese Cultural Values ◽  
Dispositional Trust ◽  
The Relationship

Culture offers an important setting for entrepreneurship to grow, and trust is critical for entrepreneurship to thrive. In recent years, there has been debate whether Chinese culture facilitates or hinders entrepreneurship; there has also been a call for empirical investigation of trust in entrepreneurship research. Our paper investigates the relationship between Chinese cultural values and two kinds of trust, in two different enterprises as two subcultures in China. The two kinds of trust are dispositional trust and interpersonal trust; and the two enterprises are a joint venture and a state-owned enterprise. We composed questionnaire from established work about trust and cultural values, ran survey research on 226 employees in the two organizations in China, and analyzed the survey data by descriptive statistics, factor analysis, correlations, and MANOVA. We found that dispositional trust and interpersonal trust are different at individual level; Chinese cultural values correlate significantly with both dispositional trust and interpersonal trust, and positively correlate to both kinds of trust. Employees in the state-owned enterprise held higher level of Chinese cultural values but had lower level of interpersonal trust, which suggests potential problems in its management. Our study is one of the recent studies that separately measure dispositional trust and interpersonal trust, and our findings across two different types of organizations have practical implications for entrepreneurship research in China. Our study is also one of the recent studies that find Chinese cultural values may benefit trust in enterprises, although some earlier studies suggested the opposite.

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