Communicating with diagrams: how intuitive and cross-cultural are business graphics? : results of image sorting experiments with strategy students in the United Kingdom and China
- Eppler, Martin J. Istituto per la comunicazione aziendale (ICA), Facoltà di scienze della comunicazione, Università della Svizzera italiana, Svizzera
- Ge, Jianxin Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE), Beijing, China
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2007
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English
This article reports on the results of an intercultural card sorting experiment with 104 students in Beijing and Cambridge to identify similarities and differences in the interpretation of visual business communication formats. The results show that English and Chinese strategy students differ dramatically in terms of their similarity and grouping decisions of business diagrams. The results indicate that managers who employ business graphics for their communication should pay attention to their target groups and visual formats to avoid misinterpretation in different cultural regions. The article is a contribution to visual approaches to communication management and highlights their limitations and risks.
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- English
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- Information, communication and media sciences
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- RERO DOC 6678
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