11.3 Future Research

It was very interesting to work on the annotated bibliographies for the COMM 244 class. Our research is focused on Global Business Communication – Intercultural mannerisms. Fortunately we did not have a hard time to find peer reviewed journal articles on our area of interest. In terms of future research, however, it will be valid to have more articles focused on other aspects of Intercultural mannerisms. We noticed that most articles touched cross-cultural negotiations as the main aspect of intercultural mannerisms. We believe that there is much more to be explored in this area.

Based on how people portray themselves throughout the organizations I have worked at, I see that aspects such as informal conversations over the coffee room, phone conversations, dress code, and cultural festivities within the ethnic employees should be highlighted as important aspects of intercultural mannerisms. It would be wonderful to see more finding on these additional aspects I just mentioned.

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