the foundation of most intellectual discourse is western-centric to the exclusion of other views. this includes ideal patterns of social interaction, preference for aesthetic, accepted norms and values, and the concepts of dignity, respectability, morality and ethics. such a position is culturally myopic. western cultural influence colors all of them including moral precepts. the assumption is ...

This paper explores a novel approach to clarify the applicability of Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) principles in certain region or country which has specific cultural background, further promotes effective application IPD principles. The method combining qualitative and quantitative analysis is adopted, incorporating scientometric analysis, questionnaire survey, measurement model. On basis ...

Here is a far-reaching and vitally important question for those seeking to understand the evolution of language: Given a thorough understanding of whatever cognitive processes are relevant to learning, understanding, and producing language, would such an understanding enable us to predict the universal features of language? This question is important because, if met with an affirmative answer, ...

Humans have genetically based unique abilities making complex culture possible; an assemblage of traits which we term "cultural capacity". The age of this capacity has for long been subject to controversy. We apply phylogenetic principles to date this capacity, integrating evidence from archaeology, genetics, paleoanthropology, and linguistics. We show that cultural capacity is older than the f...

Over the last decade, there has been a rapid increase in doctoral enrolments of Asian international students in Australian universities. While policies have been developed to meet the needs of these students, there seems to be some confusion around the terms internationalisation, globalisation, bi-cultural, inter-cultural, multi-cultural, and trans-cultural within these policies. In this paper,...

collapse of the christian church in the west is the beginning of enlightenment era in which western theorists constituted a new base in theoretical and practical thoughts with dominance of positivist thoughts and with disregard to metaphysical principles. meanwhile, when these new schools of thought became unable to lay a solid foundation to give meaning to the world and human life and when the...

The theory of cultural dimensions constitutes the foundation of a significant portion of comparative cross-cultural business research. From Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck (1961) to the GLOBE study (2004), researchers have refined its conceptualization and empirical methods. Even though the theory of cultural dimensions can be criticized from several points of view, it has shown its usefulness for bot...