Do We Understand Each Other? Discussing Academic Exchange From A Cross-Cultural Communication Perspective

Do We Understand Each Other? Discussing Academic Exchange from a Cross-Cultural Communication Perspective

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Do We Understand Each Other? Discussing Academic Exchange from a Cross-Cultural Communication Perspective

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This article discusses a communicational perspective between academia and practitioners this includes a discussion about exchanges carried out within the community of scholars. There are some misunderstandings and a communicational gap between academia and practitioners from other departments including business and management. In every discipline, there is a communication gap, which leads to problems in academic exchanges. This article mentions the contributions to avoid issues of communication gap in academics by proposing a model based on persuasive communication gap. This also includes communicational insights based on research from cross-cultures. Following context of senders, recipient, messages, and channels are portrayed to clear misunderstandings in communication processes. While these processes revolve around research and its contributions to communication are portrayed in this context.

For academic approaches, theories of communication allow re-examining communication strategies. In academic exchanges, culture plays a vital role and it also suggests that understanding cultural communication researches may also contribute to improving quality in communication. Research processes contribute to create a better understanding of cross-cultures and allow them to understand the potentials of misunderstandings. Researches also highlight the positive aspects of academics and practices using a cross-cultural lens. Involving both cultures in conversation may help to overcome the communication gap while observing these conversations, anonymous researchers may also help to highlight differences in communication ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"AZx6KEra","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Kittler, 2018)","plainCitation":"(Kittler, 2018)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":836,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/F0XOCTdk/items/J796QFDD"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/F0XOCTdk/items/J796QFDD"],"itemData":{"id":836,"type":"article-journal","title":"Do We Understand Each Other? Discussing Academic Exchange from a Cross-Cultural Communication Perspective","container-title":"International Studies of Management & Organization","page":"333-351","volume":"48","issue":"3","source":"Crossref","abstract":"This article takes a communication perspective to explore the divide between practitioners and academics and also looks at the exchange within the scholarly community. While the relevance debate for business and management related research is frequently pointing at communication problems, there is little systematic inclusion of communication research. We look at contributions in other fields and disciplines and adopt insights from communication theory and cross-cultural communication research to explain (mis)communication in exchanges with practitioners and the academic peer group. This article contributes to a more systematic understanding of academic exchange focusing on how source, recipient, message, channel, and context as prominent communication inputs affect the communication outcomes. This allows a better understanding of the process of research as well as its dissemination, suggesting areas of potential misunderstanding and pointing at the benefits of a cross-cultural communication lens.","DOI":"10.1080/00208825.2018.1480877","ISSN":"0020-8825, 1558-0911","shortTitle":"Do We Understand Each Other?","language":"en","author":[{"family":"Kittler","given":"Markus"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2018",7,3]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Kittler, 2018). This will contribute to an understanding of communication challenges in academic exchange, and concerns leading the communication gap between scholars and practitioners. While this research may also contribute to understand communication exchanges in business and management by proposing peer groups to communicate which can be understood by practitioners and academics. However, it is important to understand practitioners by these peer groups to resolve communicational misunderstandings in both cultures. More inputs in clearing misunderstandings by creating conversations between these cross-cultures and communities are important, while there also has to be a peer research group so they will observe the required changes to enhance the quality of communication.

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ADDIN ZOTERO_BIBL {"uncited":[],"omitted":[],"custom":[]} CSL_BIBLIOGRAPHY Kittler, M. (2018). Do We Understand Each Other? Discussing Academic Exchange from a Cross-Cultural Communication Perspective. International Studies of Management & Organization, 48(3), 333–351. https://doi.org/10.1080/00208825.2018.1480877