Research in cultural evolution has focused on the spread of intuitive or minimally counterintuitive beliefs. However, some very counterintuitive beliefs can also spread successfully, at least in some communities-scientific theories being the most prominent example. We suggest that argumentation could be an important factor in the spread of some very counterintuitive beliefs. A first experiment ...

Article history: Received 17 September 2009 Received in revised form 22 April 2010 Accepted 8 June 2010

Quality in its contemporary incarnation is commonly referred to as organizational excellence, enterprise excellence, business excellence, or performance excellence. While technology may serve as a key enabler of enterprise excellence, enterprise excellence itself is in large enabled by the human dimension both in terms of ideation and effort. The human dimension manifests in many ways, with peo...

The target article argues that whole groups can act as interactors in an evolutionary process. We believe that Smaldino's discussion would be advanced by a more thorough analysis of the appropriate replicators and lineages for this model. We show that cultural evolution is necessarily a separate process from cultural group selection, and we also illustrate that the two processes may influence e...

the military domination of russia on transoxiana imported, for the first time, the title of russian turkestan in political geography in 19 century. what belongs to this territory includes the khanate of khoqand and some regions of bukhara, and khiva. the main difference between turkestan and two other khanates  was their relationship with russia. while turkestan was incorporated to russia the t...

The module will examine the ongoing convergence of the corporate and market laws in relation to the universal issues in doing international business ethically. We will review the corporate governance mechanisms, the methods of expropriating investors and the current reforms of ensuring corporate control and diminishing of the level of corporate abuse. Topics covered include comparative corporat...

Researchers still debate the relevance of using cultural frameworks and socio-economic differences between countries versus focussing on institutional differences when analysing issues affecting the transfer of human Resource policies between countries. this paper first compares four countries from europe and Asia on a macroeconomic level as well as on cultural dimensions. it then investigates ...