What is the Destiny of Social Networking Sites Data After the Data Owners Pass Away? 12 Competition Between Global and Local Online Social Networks 14 Users Key Locations in Online Social Networks: Identification and Applications 16 Building a Spam Free Social Network 18 Large Scale Topic Detection using Node-Cut Partitioning on Dense Weighted Graphs 20 Individualism and Collectivism in Social ...

Through the method of contrastive analysis, this thesis aims at presenting the differences as well as similarities between friendship view in China and that in English-speaking countries by examining Chinese and English idioms from the perspective of power distance, individualism versus collectivism and long-term versus short-term orientation. A further explanation of the characteristics of the...

The aim of this study is to examine the impact of culture on the trust determinants in e-commerce. The study adopts two broad trust building foundations (cognitionand affect-based trust) from cross-culture literature, focuses on one wellestablished cultural construct (i.e., individualism-collectivism) as groups of culture, develops a theoretical model of cognition-based versus affect-based e-Ve...

Abstract To inform interventions against academic cheating among college students, the study tests moderating role of construct perceived behavioral control as originally proposed yet seldom tested in Theory Planned Behavior, and further cultural boundary conditions for this with a focus on four horizontal-vertical individualism-collectivism orientations. Using multicampus survey data collected...

Previous studies have pointed out that it is hard to achieve the level of herd immunity for population and then effectively stop disease propagation from perspective public health, if individuals just make vaccination decisions based on individualism. Individuals in reality often exist form groups cooperate or among communities. Meanwhile, society suggested we cannot ignore existence influence ...

Management scholars have examined the ethical decision-making process of individuals in organizations but, with a few notable exceptions, have largely failed to undertake a careful analysis of the role of culture. In this note I explore the impact of individualism and collectivism on three basic aspects of ethical decision making—the perception of moral problems, moral reasoning, and behavior. ...