Understanding national and organizational culture becomes increasingly important in the era of transnational manufacturing. As the world becomes flat and boundaries break down, manufacturers need to understand the proper role of culture in order to obtain competitive advantage. Thus, the current study conducts a multilevel investigation of the impact of eight national and organizational culture...

the hierarchical hub location problem is encountered three-level network that is applied in production-distribution system, education system, emergency medical services, telecommunication network, etc. this paper addresses the hierarchical hub covering problem with single assignment accounting for mandatory dispersion of central hubs restriction as a special case. this formulation with incorpor...

A simple method for fabricating high-aspect-ratio, hierarchical, and dynamically tunable surface patterns is invented by harnessing localized-ridge instabilities in gold nanofilms coated on elastomer substrates (a); a theoretical model to calculate the critical parameters (e.g., wavelength and amplitude) for designing the new patterns is developed (b); and novel applications of the patterns as ...

In the past decade, culture has been a focus of several studies in the information systems (IS) field. While the literature on the role of culture in information systems is growing, due to the breadth of the concept of culture, the research involving culture remains challenging. The main challenge pertains to the definition of culture which is evidenced by the presence of more than 150 definiti...

Purpose : This study aimed to identify the factors influencing professional quality of life intensive care unit (ICU) nurses working in university hospitals.Methods A survey was conducted on 171 ICU hospitals B City, South Korea. used Professional Quality Life instrument, which consists three subscales, namely, compassion satisfaction, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress. Data were analyzed...

each license plate recognition system is composed of three main parts, namely, license plate detection, character segmentation and character recognition. in this paper, we focus on the improvement and innovation of the character recognition step. for this purpose, a new hierarchical architecture based on support vector machines (svms) is suggested for persian license plate characters recognitio...

Islamic banking is a part of the finance industry which currently becoming concern in Indonesia. On February 1, 2021, merger policy was issued for Sharia banks under BUMN, namely Bank Syariah Mandiri, BRI Syariah, and BNI Syariah. The three will certainly cause problems company's performance reflects existing employees. There close relationship between effectiveness company organizational cultu...