Analyze United States's cultural changes and Apple Inc.'s corporate cultural evolutions from the perspective of modernization theory

Cultural change is often accompanied by social progress and change, e.g., gender equality, and the coexistence of people from different cultural backgrounds, which helps promote inclusiveness and understanding and reduces cultural conflicts. However, most of the actual research explores cultural cha...

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Autor: Liu, Yunmei
Tipo de recurso: tesis de maestría
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
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Palabra clave:United States
Cultural changes
Apple Inc
Corporate cultural evolutions
Modernization Theory
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title Analyze United States's cultural changes and Apple Inc.'s corporate cultural evolutions from the perspective of modernization theory
spellingShingle Analyze United States's cultural changes and Apple Inc.'s corporate cultural evolutions from the perspective of modernization theory
Liu, Yunmei
United States
Cultural changes
Apple Inc
Corporate cultural evolutions
Modernization Theory
title_short Analyze United States's cultural changes and Apple Inc.'s corporate cultural evolutions from the perspective of modernization theory
title_full Analyze United States's cultural changes and Apple Inc.'s corporate cultural evolutions from the perspective of modernization theory
title_fullStr Analyze United States's cultural changes and Apple Inc.'s corporate cultural evolutions from the perspective of modernization theory
title_full_unstemmed Analyze United States's cultural changes and Apple Inc.'s corporate cultural evolutions from the perspective of modernization theory
title_sort Analyze United States's cultural changes and Apple Inc.'s corporate cultural evolutions from the perspective of modernization theory
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Liu, Yunmei
author Liu, Yunmei
author_facet Liu, Yunmei
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dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Facultat de Dret
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut d'Estudis Europeus
Turati, Riccardo
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv United States
Cultural changes
Apple Inc
Corporate cultural evolutions
Modernization Theory
topic United States
Cultural changes
Apple Inc
Corporate cultural evolutions
Modernization Theory
description Cultural change is often accompanied by social progress and change, e.g., gender equality, and the coexistence of people from different cultural backgrounds, which helps promote inclusiveness and understanding and reduces cultural conflicts. However, most of the actual research explores cultural changes based on the state and society level, thus few studies are focusing on corporate cultural evolution. For this reason, this paper, from the perspective of Modernization Theory, analyzes both the trend of cultural changes in the United States and the evolution of Apple Inc.'s corporate culture. As a result, this paper demonstrates that the core pursuit for liberation and self-expression values in America's Civil Rights Movement and Counterculture Movement, and shifts from survivalist values to free expression model in Apple's Sculley Era and Think Different Era, are all consistent with Modernization Theory's emphasis on economic impacts and value differences during the modernization process. Gaining a profound comprehension of these alterations in a given period will enable us to use Modernization Theory more effectively in practice and serve as a valuable source for other nations and businesses to have more significant advancements and discoveries in this field.
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