Where Finnish and Chinese business cultures collide
Li, Jing (2010)
2010
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Tiivistelmä
Due to globalization that brings people from different cultures together, there are increasing requirements on leaders to be able to manage in multicultural business circumstances. Therefore, there are more and more researches of cultural management.
From the situation of the economy in the world nowadays, there is obviously increasing importance of doing business with Chinese enterprises. Finland, which is a young Scandinavian country when talking about multinational integration, needs suggestions when confronting the Chinese market. Therefore, the main concentration of this thesis is to discover, discuss and give advices to Finnish business people on how to avoid confrontations that caused by cultural diversity in doing business in China. This thesis combines the theoretical studies with the practical experiences.
To accomplish the main finding, there are three questions made and unveiled in the end of this thesis: What are the major differences between Chinese and Finnish business culture?; How do Chinese people and Finnish people build relationships m business-to-business circumstances?; What are the advices on how to be more alert of cultural gaps when confronting the Chinese market for the Finnish business people?
From the situation of the economy in the world nowadays, there is obviously increasing importance of doing business with Chinese enterprises. Finland, which is a young Scandinavian country when talking about multinational integration, needs suggestions when confronting the Chinese market. Therefore, the main concentration of this thesis is to discover, discuss and give advices to Finnish business people on how to avoid confrontations that caused by cultural diversity in doing business in China. This thesis combines the theoretical studies with the practical experiences.
To accomplish the main finding, there are three questions made and unveiled in the end of this thesis: What are the major differences between Chinese and Finnish business culture?; How do Chinese people and Finnish people build relationships m business-to-business circumstances?; What are the advices on how to be more alert of cultural gaps when confronting the Chinese market for the Finnish business people?