Cultural Differences in Organizational Communication: A Semantic Network Analysis

Examines the impact of national culture on organizational culture by analyzing messages directed to external audiences, namely letters from annual reports of 35 US & Japanese companies based in the US. Semantic network analysis, as well as Galileo, cluster, correspondence, & discriminant analyses, are performed on the texts to determine whether cultural differences exist in firms operating in the same environment. The two cultural groups emerged as distinct, showing US tendencies to discuss financial & structural information & Japanese concern with organizational operations. Moreover, data from the US texts cluster loosely, & those from Japanese tightly. 6 Tables, 3 Figures, 32 References. Adapted from the source document.