The lack of cultural analysis research on tourism based Instagram accounts, especially in Indonesia, makes it a limitation understanding communication studies, cross Indonesia. This study aims to look at the differences values resulting from account postings and promotions @Wonderfulindonesia @Japantravelcom which are two components Hofstede's theory include collectivist-individualist power dis...

This study aims to examine the constraints on group work of multicultural students in higher education and differences between from different cultural backgrounds how they perceive importance dealing with obstacles work. The survey was used 19 items 141 as respondents at levels Pakuan University. Students were asked fill out a questionnaire Likert scale (from 1 5) about facing certain Constrain...

Research Article Jens Dibbern University of Bern [email protected] Wynne W. Chin University of Houston [email protected] Armin Heinzl University of Mannheim [email protected] The practice of information systems (IS) outsourcing is widely established among organizations. Nonetheless, evidence suggests that organizations differ considerably in the extent to which they deploy IS outsourcin...

This paper reports on a behavioral study that explores the role of culture and gender in the recognition of emotional speech in an under investigated cultural context (a collectivist society: i.e., Iran). Participants were asked to recognize the emotional prosody of a set of validated emotional vocal portrayals (including the five basic emotions). Findings of the experiment were then comp...

Cultural studies exploring differences in the manifestation of anorexia nervosa (AN) have primarily focus on Western and non-Western cultures. However, no study so far has considered the role that social attitudes (i.e. Collectivist vs. Individualist cultural values) have in the clinical manifestations of eating disorders, including AN patients. With this in mind, the aim of this study is to co...

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. ...

Why are we apt to take credit for our brains ? No man by taking thought can add to his inborn capacity, and a good intellectual endowment is supreme among the gifts that come through no virtue of our own. Supreme, in that it is the power of abstract thought which raises man above the brutes, and makes possible joys which we sometimes take for granted. Intellect truly " unveils the hidden beauty...

Recent years have seen a renewed debate over the importance of group selection, especially as it relates to the evolution of altruism. One feature of this debate has been disagreement over which kinds of processes should be described in terms of selection at multiple levels, within and between groups. Adapting some earlier discussions, we present a mathematical framework that can be used to exp...