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This chapter presents a comparison of the major findings about Kuwaiti and American business meetings. The chapter sheds light on the cross-linguistic and cross-cultural communication differences by providing detailed samples from both investigated organizations. The researcher also compares the agency and power of all managers and staff members to capture the similarities and differences of agency and power in Kuwait City and the Phoenix area. The last section of the chapter outlines the different identities exhibited by managers and staff members in Innovative Kuwait Co. and Global Phoenix.
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AlHaidari, F.M. (2018). Compare and Contrast. In: The Discourse of Business Meetings. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66143-8_7
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