Thailand has always been China’s very friendly partner. Since Thailand is located in the center of Southeast Asia, it is geographically close to China. The education cost in Thailand is considered low for Chinese families. The open policy of Thai government brings more opportunities to Thailand. Thailand has advantages in offering business opportunities, including international educational business. Chinese students have become the major source of foreign students in Thailand since year 2006. Due to the differences in language, cultural background, ...

At present, the market for small-budget films in China continues to expand and the production proceeds to soar with the amount having become the most in the world. But at the same time, there are many irregularities and even chaos in production management. Based on the theory of three-dimensional controlling factors (time, quality, and cost) of project management, in-depth interviews with veterans of the industry are combined with case studies into six small-budget film crews for practical observation in this article. The uniqueness of the article ...

As firms expand internationally, there will be an ever-greater challenge for their salespeople who will be required, more and more, to engage in cross-cultural selling. Although cross-cultural selling is a topic that has already gained much attention in literature, research about the competencies of salespeople in cross-cultural selling is still scarce. To fill this research gap, the present study focuses on the role of cultural intelligence (CQ) which is a cross-cultural competency that will assist salespeople in becoming more effective in ...

Nowadays, the leading national airlines of many countries have expanded their international routes worldwide.  Although these airlines generally recruit their workforce from their home country to work on the cabin crew team, their international expansion requires them to have foreign crew members from the countries where they have expanded their flight routes. However, despite the benefits of having foreign crew members on the team, many national airlines tend to have a policy of hiring a small proportion of foreign crew members, thereby making ...

Efficient knowledge sharing behavior within enterprises plays a key role in increasing organizations’ competitive strength and productivity. Social media is a way that provides a broader knowledge sharing platform for organizations. However, different culture backgrounds may affect employees’ attitude towards knowledge sharing. This research aims to explore how social media use at work affects knowledge sharing behavior under the cross culture values between Thai and Chinese employees. Social capital was introduced as mediating effects, ...

The interaction between cultural factors and tourists’ destination loyalty has not yet been widely observed among research scholars. However, the knowledge of the interaction is necessary for understanding how culture is becoming a central factor of attraction in tourism. The objective of this study was therefore to find the possible linkages between cultural interaction factors and the destination loyalty of tourists by using Phuket, Thailand, as a case study. The study employed the satisfaction-loyalty theory in the examination of the role of ...

The translation service market in China is growing steadily with the rapid development of international outsourcing services, as well as the language service industry as a whole. Besides the traditional study scopes included in linguistics and translation, there are a few studies that focus on translation service in the scope of the outsourcing field and then adopt theories and perspectives from it. This dissertation will study translation service industry from a new perspective, focusing on its nature as a kind of outsourcing activity. This ...

In the last years a new internet technology called Web 2.0 has changed the milieu of internal communication in many organizations and has given rise to what professionals in business context refers to as Enterprise 2.0. This tool has offered different benefits to organizational communication such as employee collaboration and knowledge sharing. However, while these aforementioned advantages have already been thoroughly investigated and practically tested, it is hard to neglect the view that due to the dynamic developments of organizational ...

In modern society, information technology plays an important role in the field of health care. This study first explored the UTAUT (Unified Theory Acceptance and Use of Technology) to study Chinese Retailing Pharmacy Sector’s IT adoption in new mandatory context. By constructing research model Pharmacy-UTAUT, the author tried to find out the core factors influencing IT adoption, the moderators affecting the strength of relationships between variables and the new model’s explanatory power. Pharmacy-UTAUT incorporates two constructs (attitude and ...

Nowadays, China has entered the era of knowledge economy. As the most important resource element for the survival and development of organizations, knowledge is the key source for individuals and organizations to acquire their core competitiveness. As the gathering place of a large number of advanced knowledge and knowledge-based talents, as well as the cradle of knowledge creation and innovation, colleges and universities are the bases of knowledge exchange, knowledge dissemination, knowledge sharing, knowledge application and personnel training, ...