This research aims to explore the impact of culture on online retailing stores across three Asian countries. Hofstede’s culture theory has been used as the theoretical foundation. After reviewing four culture dimensions including individualism-collectivism, power distance, uncertainty avoidance, and masculinity-femininity, we investigated the potential cultural impact on three online retailing ...

This article investigates IT investment management processes in the U.S. and Portugal. In Portugal compared to the United States, we find less involvement of operational business users, less formalized processes, more bottom-up generation of ideas, less focus on business metrics other than financial ones, and more highly involved corporate boards. We develop a framework for understanding IT inv...

With the growing globalization of business in today’s environment, increased multiculturalism has encouraged scholars to examine factors that enhance or inhibit the adaptation of organization and management practices across cultural boundaries (Adler 1983). Culture has been defined by Hofstede (1991) as “the collective programming of the mind that distinguishes the members of one category of pe...

Previous studies have established the link between one’s actions (e.g., engaging with others vs. minding one’s own business) and one’s national culture (e.g., collectivist vs. individualistic), and such actions have been shown to be important as they are collectively affiliated with a country’s economic outcomes (e.g., Gross Domestic Product). Hitherto there has not been any systematic study of...