The article proposes a modified Design-Based Research (DBR) framework which accommodates the various socio-cultural factors that emerged in the longitudinal PA-HELP research study at Central University College (CUC) in Ghana, Africa. A transnational team of stakeholders from Ghana, Canada, and the USA collaborated on the development, implementation, and subsequent modification of the DBR framew...

abstract background: studies have shown that, with regard to social, cultural, and institutional contexts, several factors affect family decision-making on organ donation. this study aimed to investigate the effective factors in organ donation by family members with brain-dead patients. materials and methods: this was a descriptive-comparative study in which a researcher-made questionnaire was ...

Global software development has become an extremely important issue for organizations at present in the climate of increasing tendency towards globalization and global outsourcing. A number of studies have been conducted which have identified a set of problematic areas which are common across projects, including language and cultural differences, trust factors, communication across temporal and...

Global software development has become an extremely important issue for organizations at present in the climate of increasing tendency towards globalization and global outsourcing. A number of studies have been conducted which have identified a set of problematic areas which are common across projects, including language and cultural differences, trust factors, communication across temporal and...

in recent years empowerment of human resource has become a tool which can be employed to efficiently manage of modern organizations which have features such as variety of diffusion channels, an increased reliance on horizontal and network structures, reduction in communication gap between managers and staff and reduction of organizational bias the ami of this paper is to identify and measure fa...