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The economic and sociocultural dimensions of e-learning are sometimes ignored in system and policy implementation in emerging nations. Many learning objects, systems, and courses (i.e. MOOCs) originate in Western developed nations and are presented in English, thus contain explicit and implicit cultural bias. Based on the author's experience in using cross-cultural e-learning systems in the emerging...
It's well proposed that subjective wellbeing should not just personal happiness, but includes one's relations with others; perceived and pursuit of happiness might vary across cultures (Kitayama and Markus, 2000) [1]. In this paper, drawn on review of studies on culture and it's implication of happiness, we identified the culture differences between the East Asians and the West European-Americans...
Individualists, communitarians, and technological determinists agree that privacy's benefits accrue to individuals, and that its costs (in terms of less security or efficiency) fall on society. As such, it is the individual's choice to give privacy away. However, privacy does benefit wider society in important respects, and so this consensus is flawed.
This study identifies the cultural influences to the adoption of mobile commerce from the cases of Taiwan and Malaysia. Using Hofstede's five cultural dimensions as modulators on the TAM, this study finds that uncertainty avoidance, individualism, and long-term orientation of two countries have significant influences on the perceived usefulness and the perceived ease of use to the adoption intention...
This paper examines the impact of four Chinese societal cultural dimensions on firms' innovativeness in entrepreneurship. The findings are based on surveys of 207 firms in China. The results indicate that firms' levels of power distance and uncertainty avoidance are negatively related to firms' innovative propensity. Further, empirical results demonstrate that individualism is positively related to...
In recent years, much literature has surfaced regarding ecosystems; however, the nature of the interaction between various members of these ecosystems and how the interaction can be improved via organizational structures have remained relatively unexplored. In this paper, a survey of recent work related to business survival in the current Information Age is presented in the context of First-Responder...
Economy going global has been an unchanged trend and Chinese enterprises of course canpsilat go this way smoothly. During this, cultural integration is a relatively complicated segment. This article starts out with Hollandpsilas scholar, Geert Hofstedepsilas view about the national culture model, which is called Geert Hofstedepsilas Model. According to it, the author sets up a model for Chinese national...
In this application paper, Hofstede's framework was used to devise a survey tool that could assess the workers' values as they work in their production teams. The survey tool was based on Hofstede's work describing the individuals at their workplace in societies that are at either extreme of the cultural dimensions, for example high power distance versus low power distance. This list was established...
In this era of globalization, Western companies have started to explore China as a source of technology. Yet western R&D project management processes are frequently shaped by a number of well-known contrasts between Chinese and Western culture characteristics, such as, collectivism versus individualism, relationship and group harmony concern versus contractual attitude, strong versus weak uncertainty...
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