This paper contributes to our current knowledge about culture and e-business Web design by investigating Amazon and Taotao, two leading e-business platforms based in America and China respectively. It is revealed that the forms of cultural reification in the two Webs include categorization, representation and structuration. All of them vary from culture to culture and this variation can be capt...

Andrew Carnegie had the good fortune to possess contacts among the rich and famous on both sides of the Atlantic, wealth enough to buy the good favor of reporters, and media savvy. But he also had the ill fortune in the 1890s to need all these resources, for in that decade both his public image and his business philosophy were under challenge. At the beginning of the decade bad news kept coming...

Does culture make business organizations, or do business organizations make their own cultures? The question underlies all debates about the impact of national culture on corporate culture. Moreover, Inquiries into this impact have ranged in response from determining effect to shaping effect. Whether determining or shaping, analysis of the effect presupposes that the corporation is the predomin...

Promoting safety management is always the top priority in construction business. Fostering safety culture will be one of the most effective ways. This paper is a case study, based upon the “Geller’s 10 principles for achieving a total safety culture”, to review how a construction companyin Hong Kong effectively promoting safety culture and enjoying pleasant safety records. Zero harmis not a “ze...

Global business intelligence will struggle to live up to its potential if it fails to take into account, and accurately interpret, cultural differences. This paper supports this assertion by considering the concept of culture, explaining its importance in the business intelligence process, especially in foreign markets, and demonstrating that attention to culture is currently inadequate in most...

Understanding the business systems success factors has been a challenging process for both public and private organizations. Organizational culture is measured as a critical factor promoting knowledge sharing among employees. Based on the competing value framework (CVF), this research shows how various dimensions of organization culture influence knowledge sharing towards business systems succe...

Integrating the IT organisation with the business is a major challenge facing companies today. Barriers often arise because of diverse information cultures between business and IT. In this paper a theoretical framework based on culture and information is proposed and used to investigate the barrier in a large company. The findings suggest that diverse information cultures indeed contribute to t...

INTRODUCTION This chapter will challenge the accepted notions of cultural vanilla applications for e-Commerce and e-Business on the Web. The approach taken suggests that national culture exists at all levels from the visual to the implicit behaviors that frame interpretation of business process when undertaking e-Commerce. Studies done show quite clearly that culture distorts he relationships i...

The success of Silicon Valley and the information economy in Ireland suggest that rural regions have the potential for e-business development. However, the successes of these two cases were not the result of technology alone. In this study, the researchers explored societal issues in the form of relevant policies and regional culture in San Joaquin Valley to investigate their influence on e-bus...