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Publication details [#58820]
Cho, Jaeho. 2014. Impacts of information-providers’ perceived cultural backgrounds on information-seeking behaviors: Investigation of American employees’ information-seeking behaviors in a Korean multinational corporation in the US. International Journal of Intercultural Relations 41 : 66–79.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
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Place, Publisher
Elsevier
Journal WWW
Annotation
This paper explores how American employees in a Korean multinational corporation in the US's perception of information-providers’ cultural backgrounds affect their information seeking patterns from culturally divergent sources. Information-seeking patterns appear more strongly daunted by the discerned power distance for Korean expatriates, and employees’ feedback information monitoring and their task information inquiry from direct supervisors positively and crucially portended communication content with the information source.