Collectivism is better than individualism as the former holds the community together more than the latter do. Paradoxically, individualists tend to believe that there are universal values that should be shared by all, while collectivists tend to accept that different groups have different values. Many of the Asian cultures are collectivist, while Anglo cultures tend to be individualist. This pa...

Regulatory focus theory (e.g., Higgins, 1997) presented a differentiation between promotion orientation, focused on growth and advancement, and prevention orientation, focused on safety and security. Cross-culture differences in these systems generally show that that collectivist, Eastern cultures (mostly East-Asian cultures) are considered as prevention oriented whereas Western cultures are co...

This paper examines people’s privacy concerns, perceptions of social benefits, and acceptance various COVID-19 control measures that harness location information using data collected through an online survey in the U.S. South Korea. The results indicate people have higher concerns for methods use more sensitive private information. also reveal benefits are low when their high, indicating a trad...

This paper reviews past research on KM to identify key factors affecting Chinese KM implementation. It begins with a chronological overview of 76 KM related publications, followed by two separate discussions of socio-cultural and non-socio-cultural factors affecting KM implementation within the Chinese community. A preliminary typology of these factors is proposed. In addition to individual fac...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors that managers in independent hotels can influence improve organisational citizenship behaviour (OCB) by examining relationship between leadership style and OCB through newly developed balanced culture trust variables. Unlike most studies, which have been on chain hotels, study investigates these relationships Iran. Additionally, size w...

Despite the availability of screening, benefits of early detection are not realized by Native Hawaiian (NH) women who as a group have the highest breast cancer incidence and mortality rates of all major ethnic groups in Hawai`i. According to the American Cancer Society, the incidence and mortality rates for NH women are 162.4 and 31 per 100,000, respectively, in comparison to women of all races...

Group buying is now a popular business mechanism whereby customers are encouraged to bargain together. Today’s group buying usually adopts a fixed group price rather than using a dynamic pricing mechanism and many retailers sell products using both a group buying and a posted price. Therefore, there are usually different shopping channels as the market can be divided into two segments, a group ...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Brand loyalty Individual level collectivist values Perceived value Brand trust Perceived quality China In today's dynamic business environment the success of a firm often depends on its ability to create brand loyalty. While there is a large body of research exploring brand loyalty and its antecedents, little has been done to examine how the relationship between ...

To examine cultural contrasts in the ordered sequence of conceptual developments leading to theory of mind (ToM), we compared 135 3- to 6-year-olds (77 Australians; 58 Iranians) on an established 5-step ToM scale (Wellman & Liu, 2004). There was a cross-cultural difference in the sequencing of ToM steps but not in overall rates of ToM mastery. In line with our predictions, the children from Ira...

Morality is an evolved aspect of human nature, yet is heavily influenced by cultural environment. This developmental study adopted an integrative approach by combining measures of socioeconomic status (SES), executive function, affective sharing, empathic concern, theory of mind, and moral judgment in predicting sharing behavior in children (N = 999) from the age of 5 to 12 in five large-scale ...