This study contributes to investigate about the factors that can amplify the adoption rate of a given technology, by analyzing the background culture. This research investigates the acceptance of NFC enabled mobile devices through both a technological and cultural lenses. Moreover, the research focuses specifically on the case of India, a country that in spite of its evolution and differences, ...

Trade in cultural goods is making an increasingly significant contribution to international trade, but its flows are very uneven across regions, which has raised concerns over cultural homogenization. This paper considers various aspects of national culture as possible explanations for comparative advantage in cultural goods. Using data from 98 countries over the period 2004 to 2014, and employ...

The management of safety culture in international and culturally diverse organizations is a concern for many high-risk industries. Yet, research has primarily developed models of safety culture within Western countries, and there is a need to extend investigations of safety culture to global environments. We examined (i) whether safety culture can be reliably measured within a single industry o...

This study finds that subjective norm plays a critical role in online trust formation. It is the covariate of all cultural variables. For a person of any cultural orientation, others' opinions matter. Uncertainty avoidance and power distance, but not collectivism, most strongly influence subjective norm and trust constructs. Introduction While e-commerce is a global phenomenon, and understandin...

Earlier research has shown the impact of national culture on the development, roll-out, and usage of cross-national information systems (IS) projects. This study builds on and extends this research by exploring the influence of national culture within the setting of Knowledge Management Systems (KMS). Employing a case study approach, the study analyses the cross-national development and rollout...

Research about Group Support Systems and the design of these technologies uses western culture as a point of reference. While the research reveals promising results on the effectiveness of these technologies, the technologies may be less effective when applied directly to different cultures or cross-cultural situations where there may be different support requirements. This paper presents the c...

OBJECTIVE Organizational culture plays a supportive role in modification of structure and implementation of new management systems. So, the management of organizational culture with cultural elements recognition plays an important role in improving the efficacy and effectiveness of the organization. On the other hand, the health sector requires healthy and motivated practitioners and staff to a...

abstract background: cultural values are invisible and relatively constant in societies. the purpose of the present study is to find diversities in cultural values of iranian and malaysian nursing students. materials and methods: convenience sampling method was used for this comparative-descriptive study to gather the data from full-time undergraduate degree nursing students in iran and malaysi...