Issues in cross-cultural research: An overview

Methodological Issues in MIS Cross-Cultural Research

This chapter presents a discussion of methodological issues that are relevant and idiosyncratic to cross-cultural research. One characteristic that typifies cross-cultural studies is their comparative nature, i.e., they involve a comparison across two separate cultures on a focal phenomenon. When differences across cultures are observed, the question arises as to whether the results are true cu...

Cross-cultural Issues

Until recently, most of the written material examining the cross-cultural/ethnic issues relating to domestic violence has been found in training manuals and curricula developed by battered women's programs. Mental health professionals have not conducted systematic research or developed clinical interventions specific to populations of color. As a result, many of the programs and interventions d...

WS—Negotiation: An overview of Research Issues

Internet and web technologies have dramatically changed the way enterprises conduct business and how they compete. So companies of all size are necessary to increase the speed of communication with their customers. More abstractly, they are forced to speed up the treatment of information, if we consider a company as a control center of information. That is, to automate interactions with their b...

Cross-linguistic research in aphasia: an overview.

Most of us would like to believe that the different patterns of language breakdown observed in aphasic patients reflect the way that the human mind and brain are organized for language. However, because so much modern research on aphasia has been carried out in English, it is difficult to separate universal mechanisms from language-specific content. Crosslinguistic com-parisons permit us to dis...

Cross-cultural Research Issues in Developing International Tourist Markets for Cultural Events