1. How do you think Petro’s understanding of the literature review changed? ( At
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1. How do you think Petro’s understanding of the literature review changed?
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Summary: National Culture and Management Styles Petro decided to research cross-cultural management. He was interested particularly in national cultures and wished to compare and contrast differences between Britain, France and Nigeria in terms of their management theory and practices. He spent several days in the university library searching the online catalogue for information on national cultures in order to make comparisons between the countries selected for his project. He also used the internet search engine Google and was taken by surprise to find over 50 million hits on 'national cultures'. He was aware of the research of Hofstede and Trompenaars from his third-year studies. Google highlighted 159,000 hits on Hofstede and 77,000 on Trompennars. Given the numbers involved he quickly realized how time consuming this would be. Discussing this with a fellow student alerted him to the problems of such date. Apart from the fact that commercial and academic information was not easily differentiated, much of the information was not referenced in the way expected for his academic project. Nevertheless, given the problems he had in selecting the appropriate data on cross-cultural differences in management, he arrived at his first tutorial with a range of material for his literature review. This included photocopied extracts from textbooks on management theories and practices and copies of the articles from a variety of journals. He realized that there was a lot more data on Britain and France compared to Nigeria. However, he perceived that his managerial experience in Britain and France as well as his three years working in Nigeria for a large multinational company would give him insights that were valuable for his project. Petro emailed his project tutor his written work so far on his literature review. He was careful to make what he thought were interesting and meaningful comparisons between the three countries and assemble them in chronological order of publication. He felt pleased that he had already written 3000 words towards the 10,000 words he needed for his project report.Explanation / Answer
Literature review done for academic purposes is different as compared to the practical ones as they are more of theoritical based approach while the practical purpose of doing a literature review is more of a solution finding.
In case of Petro he was working in Nigeria for past three years and had some experience working in France and Britain as well. The first problem he faced was in differentiating the kind of information he was getting it is difficult to distinguish that they are commercial or academic information as they weren't referenced. He was given the digital information on the first hand that has lesser reliability as compared to the other sources which later got rectified by his guide who gave him different books to read that were leading source of information and updated too in his field of study. He now realised that he could have the perfect balance as he had the Practical knowledge that he could back up with the theoritical framework now after he started reading the booksa and the peer reviwed journals.
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