What is culture? What effect does culture has on the conduct of business? Explain, and give examples.

Introduction
“Culture is anything but nature.” (Trompenaars and Turner, 1997, 24)

Culture influences all of people activities but naturally. Culture is varying between every country. Because of the variation, sometimes people can face problems. For example, the ways people give their name cards are different in every country. In Australia, people can give their name card by using one hand, but in Japan, name cards have to be given by using both of hands and after that read the name cards before put into pocket or bag.

The purpose of this report is to describe what culture is and analyse how culture affects the conduct of businesses.

Definition of Culture
Everyday people are dealing with culture; everything is related to culture, from the way people thinking to the food that people eat everyday. Simple thing like food can be symbol of culture. For example is spaghetti. When people want to eat spaghetti, they will automatically go to Italian restaurant because peop...