Managing diversity is the hallmark of an international business. International organizations deal with diversity in multiple task environments: culture, communication, operating, technology and supply chain. International organizations are integrated with global and host country local economies and systems. They need to continuously improve the supply chain effectiveness of their global operati...

GroupLab Collabrary is a toolkit for rapidly prototyping multimedia groupware. It provides a straightforward API to managing and distributing multimedia information between groupware program instances. The Collabrary also has a culture of use, where a small generic set of useful groupware programming patterns has evolved over time. In this workshop I will describe the Collabrary, what it offers...

The is much discussion about the challenges posed by what have variously been called " disruptive " , " discontinuous " , " breakthrough " and " radical " innovations. It is clear that under conditions in which the dominant " rules of the game " change as a result of emergent or shifting markets, major movements at the technological frontier, dislocations in the regulatory environment etc, even...

Knowledge for culture is a concept of using information and communication technology to increase usability in the field culture, especially managing, documenting, disseminating knowledge cultural arts, Sundanese namely art jaipong dance. For dance be maintained, it necessary manage that utilizes sophistication towards noble values ​​of In way, can passed on each generation maintain as self-iden...

PURPOSE barriers to managing cancer pain contribute to cancer patients' reluctance to report pain and use prescribed analgesics, resulting in inadequate pain control. Patients' perceived barriers to managing cancer pain may be influenced by culture. This meta-analysis compared differences in Western and Asian patient-perceived barriers to managing cancer pain. METHODS the literature was syste...

82 Sandra Lovell is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist at ERM, UK and has worked across numerous high hazard industries including mining, manufacturing and oil & gas. She specialises in organisational culture and safety, human factors in system design, performance assessment & development in safety critical tasks and training systems. She has trained leaders in safety and in assessing compet...

Grounded-theory analyses were used to formulate propositions regarding the processes of adolescent emotional development. Progress in understanding this difficult topic requires close examination of emotional experience in context, and to do this the authors drew on qualitative data collected over the course of a high school theater production. Participants' (ages 14-17) accounts of experiences...

The purpose of this study is to compare the author’s experience in founding and managing a company in Merida, Mexico to existing literature on cross-cultural management. The results should prove useful for non-Mexican managers working in Mexico and can provide a basis for devising empiricalbased research to test the ethnographic results reported. The author concludes that most of the discrimina...