Two studies are described examining the correlation between selfand culture referenced values at a culture level (study 1) and correlation between selfand culturereferenced values and self-reported behaviour at an individual level (study 2). It is found that values related to individual – group relationships (embeddedness) and expression and experience of affective feelings and emotions (affect...

In this article, I present the state of my research on modeling and simulating the impact of a culture on artificial organizations and artificial societies. In particular, I aim at replicating the effect of culture at the individual level in order to observe the consequences at the collective level. Thus, I expect to reproduce organizational structural and performance (efficiency, robustness, f...

RESEARCH OBJECTIVE To assess the extent to which the organizational culture of physician group practices is associated with individual physician satisfaction with the managerial and organizational capabilities of the groups. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS Physician surveys from 1997 to 1998 assessing the culture of their medical groups and their satisfaction with six aspects of group practice. Orga...

We study a model describing the spread of a globalized culture in a population of individuals localized at the nodes of a social network. The influence of this globalized culture, assumed to be foreign to the local culture, is measured by a probability to convince each individual to adopt its cultural traits. This probability depends upon the degree s—a real between 0 and 1—of “wise” skepticism...

Culture as a phenomenon is something of human creation experienced by and involving every individual and all people collectively. It is constituted, developed, displayed and expressed in human communication of various forms and types, as people respond to and adapt to their natural and social environment. Communication is by and large constrained and shaped in all aspects by the culture in whic...

This article reports a replication and extension of a study that explored individual perceptions of factors that underlie the use of electronic media (electronic mail, world-wide-web, list serves, and other collaborative systems). The original study was conducted in a single Australian university. The study was replicated in a Canadian university. The replication allowed testing of the enlarged...

The objectives of this study were to determine the distribution of Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (MAP) in the environment and assess the relationship between the culture status of MAP in the farm environment and herd infection status. The National Animal Health Monitoring System's Dairy 2002 study surveyed dairy operations in 21 states. One component of the study involved coll...

in the recent decade, given the importance of customer in online environment, creating loyalty has been proposed as an essential challenge for electronic stores. the present study focuses on the role of trust in order to facilitate the process of making e-customers loyal. to this end, a model was proposed that especially focuses on individual factors ( perceived usefulness, perceived ease of us...

In reviewing the history of the conceptualization and measurement of “culture,” one quickly realizes that there is wide-ranging and contradictory scholarly opinion about which values, norms, and beliefs should be measured to represent the concept of “culture.” We explore an alternate theory-based view of culture via social identity theory (SIT), which suggests that each individual is influenced...