中英文化差异对中外合资企业的影响

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Introduction介绍

自20世纪80年代中国实行改革开放政策以来，世界各国的经济与贸易达到了前所未有的繁荣。中国，拥有巨大的消费市场和丰富的人力资源，，已受到越来越多的国家、金融集团、跨国公司的关注，成为全球投资的暖地。据相关统计，在2005，外商投资企业的数量已经达到512504（李等人，2008）。外商投资企业不仅促进了中国经济市场化进程的建立也带来了外资企业先进的管理理念。然而，与此同时，中外合资企业，由来自不同国家和地区的企业，有很大的文化差异，尤其是英语和汉语之间的文化多样性。文化多样性产生的困惑在管理和文化冲突影响企业运行甚至导致合资企业解体。本文旨在探讨英汉文化差异对中外合资企业的影响，了解和解决文化差异，以帮助企业促进合资企业的发展。论文的结构如下。首先，它将分析英汉文化差异。其次，探讨文化多样性对中外合资企业的影响。第三，这将是一个简短的结论。Since China put reform and opening policies into practice in 1980s, the economy and trade between China and various countries in the world reach unprecedented prosperity. China, with huge consumer market and abundant human resource, has been paid attention by more and more countries, financial group, and multinational companies and become global investing warm land. According to relevant statistics, in 2005, the number of foreign-invested enterprise has reached 512504 (Li et al, 2008). The establishment of foreign-funded enterprise not only accelerates the process of marketalization of China’s economy but also brings about advanced management idea of foreign enterprise. However, at the same time, Sino-foreign joint ventures, comprised by enterprise coming from different countries and areas, have prodigious cultural diversity, especially the cultural diversity between English and Chinese. The cultural diversity produces bewilderment in management and culture clash which influences corporate operation even lead the disintegration of joint ventures. In this paper, it intends to focus on discussing the impact of cultural difference between English and Chinese on Sino-foreign joint ventures to understand and tackle the cultural diversity in order to helping enterprise promote the development of joint ventures. The structure of the paper shows as following. First, it will analyze the cultural difference between English and Chinese. Second, it will discuss the influence of the cultural diversity on Sino-foreign joint ventures. Third, it will make a short conclusion.

Cultural difference between English and Chinese 英汉文化差异

The impact of cultural difference between English and Chinese on Sino-foreign joint ventures英汉文化差异对中外合资企业的影响

Conclusion总结

In conclusion, the paper has discussed the impact of cultural difference between English and Chinese on Sino-foreign joint ventures. The paper analyzes the cultural difference between English and Chinese and discusses the negative influence and positive influence of culture diversity between English and Chinese on Sino-foreign joint ventures. In one side, cultural diversity could ineffective communication and bad interpersonal relationship, complicated management, and difficult decision-making. In the other side, cultural diversity also has positive influence to Sino-foreign joint ventures as it is helpful for enterprise to producenew opinion, obtain development in international market, enhance the innovation ability, and achieve addition of cultural advantages.

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