2023 Vol.3 No.1

Cultural Thought in the Caribbean? Arts’ Theory in Cuba, And Its Epistemic Status from a Historical Sociology of Scientific Knowledge Perspective

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Although History of Art studies within academia, began in the late thirties of the Twentieth Century, Arts’ Theory in Cuba has been an underdeveloped discipline. For this paper, we use the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge in its historical perspective, as a tool for analyzing Jorge Mañach’s cultural thought. This was one of the most important Cuban intellectuals of his time, who wrote some of ... more

Exploring the Effect of a Cultural Gap on the Process of Absorbing Business Knowledge
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Exploring the Effect of a Cultural Gap on the Process of Absorbing Business Knowledge

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This study explores the implications of the difference between Japanese and Anglo-American cultures when Japanese organizations try to absorb business knowledge generated in Anglo-American culture. It relies on Todorova & Durisin’s model of Absorptive Capacity (2007) which allows for multi-level, individual, group, and organizational levels of absorption in the process of incorporating exte... more