Cultural profiling involves a complex interplay of multiple dimensions that are virtually impossible to wholly address. This paper explores several cultural (nationality and its associated Hofstede dimensions, religious beliefs), and demographic (gender, age) variables to evaluate if each of these are good candidates for predicting behavioural as well as cognitive attitudes related to computer ...

This paper examines the question: How do cultural differences influence students’ perceptions of Web-based learning? Research on cultural differences by Hofstede [1] [2] is used as a foundation to study students’ perceptions of Webbased learning. A survey of an on-line course has been conducted, linking the students’ cultural background to usage patterns, attitudes towards Web-based learning in...

This essay broadly addresses the issue of how differences in two national cultures, French and Scandinavian, shape the way multinational businesses in those cultures use Information Systems, in particularly collaborative technologies. The thesis of this paper is that differences in low-high context, monochronic/polychronic (Hall, 1990) and power-distance (Hofstede, 1980; 1991) constructs shape ...

et al. Bartonella seroprevalence in rural Thailand. Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health. 2011;42:687–92. 8. Laudisoit A, Iverson J, Neerinckx S, Shako J-C, Nsabimana J-M, Kersh G, et al. Human seroreactivity against Bartonella species in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Asian Pac J Trop Med. 2011;4:320–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1995-7645(11)60094-1 9. ter Hofstede HM, Fenton MB, Whita...

The goal of this paper is to link a bridge between social relationship and cultural variation to predict conversants’ non-verbal behaviors. This idea serves as a basis of establishing a parameter based socio-cultural model which determines non-verbal expressive parameters that specify the shapes of agent’s nonverbal behaviors in HAI. As a first step, comparative multimodal corpus analysis is do...

In this study, on the basis of G. Hofstede and G. England’s research on organizational and managerial values, it is aimed to determine which problems arise from organizational and managerial values in the organization. Research data needed to achieve the objective come from 166 administrators with academic and administrative authority at faculties, colleges and vocational schools of a public un...

Vol. XLII (May 2005), 233–239 233 *Shibo Li is Assistant Professor of Marketing, Rutgers Business School—Newark and New Brunswick, Rutgers University (e-mail: [email protected]). Baohong Sun is Associate Professor of Marketing, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University (e-mail: [email protected]). Ronald T. Wilcox is Associate Professor of Business Administration, Darde...

Hofstede has identified four important work-related values, but he imposes his "mental programming" on the interpretation of other cultures, which are qualitatively different from those on which he relies to develop his constructs, This criticism is evidenced by Hofstede's treatment of Chinese and Japanese values. This paper discusses the treatment along the four value dimensions: power distanc...