Addressing Cultural Diversity using the Enterprise Portal

Abstract
In this paper, we will discuss the issue of Culture and cultural diversity within the multinational corporation and its effect on the deployment of Enterprise Portal technologies.
We will open this topic by discussing more general concepts about Culture how it affects businesses today. We will offer a number of different interpretations of Culture for discussion, highlighting some key phenomena such as the resulting 'global' versus 'local' dilemma faced by many global organisations today; the pressure on the one hand to globalise and on the other to meet local needs.
We will focu…