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Intercultural Discourse Ethics: Testing Trompenaars' and Hampden-Turner's Conclusions about Americans and the French

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Are culture driven ethical conflicts apparent in the discourse of the protagonists? A multi-year, multi-cultural study of managers by Trompenaars and Hampden-Turner resulted in two conclusions relevant to business ethics. The first is that intercultural business conflicts can often be traced to a finite set of cultural differences. The second is that enough similarities exist between cultures to provide the grounds for conflict resolution. The research reported here gives credence to their study when applied to an ethical conflict viewed from French and American perspectives.

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  1. Terry School, University of Georgia, Brooks Hall-UGA, Athens, GA, 30602, U.S.A.

    Warren French

  2. Quelle AG, Germany

    Harald Zeiss

  3. Universität Konstanz, Germany

    Andreas Georg Scherer

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French, W., Zeiss, H. & Scherer, A.G. Intercultural Discourse Ethics: Testing Trompenaars' and Hampden-Turner's Conclusions about Americans and the French. Journal of Business Ethics 34, 145–159 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1012565505640

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