Beyond culture or beyond control? Reviewing the use of hall's high-/low-context concept

International Journal of Cross Cultural Management

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 63-82

  Kittler, Markus G ^a   Rygl, David ^b   MacKinnon, Alex ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

communication; Hall; high context; low context; national culture

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955525485     PISSN: 14705958     EISSN: 17412838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1470595811398797     Document Type: Review

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