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...

This research documents a qualitative study of selected Native Americans who have successfully graduated from mainstream higher education institutions. The research framework explored the Bicultural Identity Formation Model as a means of understanding the expressions of the students' adaptations to mainstream education. This approach lead to an awareness of how the participants in the study use...

Article history: Received 26 August 2014 Received in revised form 1 December 2014 Accepted 1 December 2014 Available online 26 December 2014

The most widely accepted definition of health impact assessment (HIA), from a consensus conference in Gothenburg organised by the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) European Centre for Health Policy, defines HIA as ‘a combination of procedures, methods and tools by which a policy, programme or project may be judged as to its potential effects on the health of a population, and the distribution o...

The issue of cultural influence in explaining behaviour in social systems has been recognised for some time, however, its impact on accounting as a social system is a more recent field of study. This paper examines the theory of cultural influence on the international practice of accounting and critiques the contemporary research methodologies used to test this

This paper is concerned with cultural factors in Group Support Systems (GSS) and the impact of technology and culture on the process and outcome of group decision making. Both current research findings in various cultural settings and propositions for further theoretical and empirical investigation are presented.

Cultural heritage is an important factor in ensuring regional development. Practice has demonstrated that first sustainability of sites needs to be ensured and tourism they generate should also re-visited as current over-tourism models are unsustainable. The assumption cultural/creative industries (CCI) can a powerful tool for livability well sustainable based on experiences. In order stimulate...