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The West leads East in development

The East leads West in development

The East develops its own ways of doing business

The East follows the West’s way of doing business

The ability to innovate continuously in globalized economy.

The ability to develop reverse innovation in emerging economies.

The ability to recruit talented work force from emerging markets.

The ability to transcend divisions around the globe.

Is really not recent, and began already in the 18th century.

Is really not recent, and began already in the early 19th century.

Is really quite recent, and began roughly at the end of the 20th century.

Is really recent, and began actually in the beginning of 21st century.

It is imposing a homogenization of the world never seen before.

It is only an economic and technological process

It is a process that involves only the so-called core and periphery nations.

It standardizes, modernizes, deterritorializes and, by dialectical negation, localizes people

Swedish media had an overwhelmingly negative tone under 2006–2010 but positive since the end of 2010.

Swedish media had an overwhelmingly positive tone under 2007–2011 but negative since the middle of 2011.

Swedish media had an overwhelmingly negative tone under 2009–2012 but positive since the end of 2012.

Swedish media had an overwhelmingly negative tone under 2008–2013 but positive since the middle of 2013.

Swedish media had an overwhelmingly negative tone under 2006–2010 but positive since the end of 2010.

Swedish media had an overwhelmingly positive tone under 2007–2011 but negative since the middle of 2011.

Swedish media had an overwhelmingly negative tone under 2009–2012 but positive since the end of 2012.

Swedish media had an overwhelmingly negative tone under 2008–2013 but positive since the middle of 2013.

Geely would cut down employment in Sweden

Volvo would lose their status as a high class automotive manufacturer

The Chinese government would steal and copy technical innovations for other purposes

All the above a, b, c.

A social metaphor.

A technocultural metaphor.

A cultural ecological metaphor.

A cultural metaphor.

Finnish sauna.

Finnish sauna and sisu

Finnish sauna in the Winter War.

Finnish sauna and song.

Swedish stugor and folkhemmet.

Swedish fika and IKEA.

Swedish fika and folksong.

Swedish “hon”, “han”, and “hen”.

We perceive culture as having a life of its opposites.

We perceive culture as having a life of its own.

We perceive culture not having a life of its own.

We perceive culture only having a life of its opposites.

Dynastic, dialectic, holistic.

Dynastic, dualistic, harmonistic.

Dynamism, dialectical, harmonistic.

Dynamic, dialectical, holistic.

Because of prevailing cognitive system

Because of formal logic

Could be A or B, or both

None of them are correct

Capturing culture through simplification, nationality/nation as the basis of analysis, focus on cultural difference.

Bipolar cultural dimension, value as the most crucial component of culture, culture stability over time.

All of the above characteristics

None of the above characteristics

West meets East” to “East meets West”.

“West leads East” to “East leads West”.

“West leads East” to “West meets East”.

“West meets East” to “East faces West”.

The media’s inability to analyze in terms of size, speed, paradox, and philosophy.

The media’s inability to analyze in terms of vision, speed, context, and history.

The media’s inability to analyze in terms of strategy, tradition, culture, and philosophy.

The media’s inability to analyze in terms of history, situation, culture, and religion.

Fairness is at the core of this case study.

Cooperation is basic to Chinese negotiation style.

Reciprocity is at the core of this case study.

Competition is at the center of Chinese negotiation propensity.

Culture changes over time.

Culture is negotiated.

Culture is learned and passed on.

Culture is variable.

Culture is a unique dynamic portfolio of self-selected globally available value orientations as a consequence of that culture’s all-dimensional learning over time.

Culture is a unique inherited portfolio of globally-selected value orientations as a consequence of that culture’s five-dimensional learning over time.

Culture is a unique strategic portfolio of globally-selected value orientations as a consequence of that culture’s all-dimensional learning over time.

Culture is a unique stable portfolio of self-selected globally available value orientations as a consequence of that culture’s all-dimensional learning over time.

One (or more) distinct cultures because of having internalized more than one set of cultural schemas

Two (or more) distinct cultures because of having internalized more than one set of cultural schemas.

Three (or more) distinct cultures because of having internalized more than one set of cultural schemas.

Multiple-level distinct cultures because of having internalized more than one set of cultural schemas.

They learned from their counterparts.

They made sure they didn’t lose face.

They got back at those who did them wrong at all cost.

They were teaching their counterparts.

Because the new and old NOR managers are private friends.

Because the new NOR manager was appointed by the old NOR manager.

The Chinese negotiator’s actual intention was to give the Shanghai assistant a lesson.

The Chinese negotiator’s true intention was to give the Swedish assistant a lesson.

Disruptive cultural change.

Ecological change.

Cultural stability.

Ecological stability.

Hofstede’s cultural paradigm through a historical angle.

Hofstede’s cultural paradigm through a paradoxical angle.

Hofstede’s cultural paradigm through a philosophical angle.

Hofstede’s cultural paradigm through a Yin Yang angle.