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Cultural Differences Between Arabs and Danes :
The Intracultural Diversity’s Effect on
Intercultural negotiations
Ahmed Hamdoun Al-Soufi
A Master thesis in EU Business and Law
Cultural differences are one of the main reasons for the unsuccessful, unpredictable, and insufficient business conducting in the region.
Most of the European businessmen including the Danes are aware of culture differences and its influence on doing business, therefore,they study national culture-differences, organizational culture-differences, and interculturalcommunications, but still they can’t figure what went wrong when they can’t fulfill their goal in doing business with the Arabs.
I think the main issue here is that the vast majority of the European business schools and research centers make their cross-cultural knowledge by focusing on Western vs. Eastern cultural perspective, assuming that since Arab countries are collectivists like other Easterners, they can approach them the same way they do approach other Asians, nevertheless, the most sensitive European business people toward cultural differences, who assume that the Arab have their own culture, which is different than other Asian cultures, do put the Arabs all in the same basket. This is a huge mistake man can attribute.
Arabs are not the same, there are a big culture differences between Arabs
themselves.
Doing business in Saudi Arabia is very different than doing business in Dubai, Egypt, or Iraq. The firm, which is already, performs successfully in Egypt cant build on its prior cultural knowledge to make its entry to the Saudi’s market; if it did so then I think it is in a real problem.
Fore all these reasons I think it is important to study the Arabic culture in general, the
differences that lies between the national and ethnical cultures in the Arab countries, and its influence on doing business and especially negotiating with the Danes. Such a study can give the Danish business people an over look on the Arabic culture in general and the cultural differences between the Arabs, the Danish corporation can probably gain an extra competitive advantage by learning little bit about their close neighbors’ culture. To do this ......
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