Having been colonized by Britain, Ireland was in a very deprived condition for long period, especially poor Catholic Irish. Britain had destroyed Irish civil rights forcing them massive potato plantation merely to fulfill British people’s need food, which caused the great famine and poverty. Written an playwright 1980, is set agricultural land, northern side of Ireland, Brian Friel’s Translatio...

As global virtual teams become more common, the need to better understand how groups composed of individuals from different cultural backgrounds perform has never been more pressing. This study compares groups from the same cultural background with groups from varied cultural backgrounds when they used two different communication media (face-to-face and an asynchronous conferencing system). Dat...

Empirical investigation suggests that conflict is path-dependent, i.e., current leads to more in the future. However, there very little formal theory for why path dependence exists. We propose a mathematical model explore one possible pathway explain persistence of once it starts. In this model, are three types cultures two boundedly rational populations. The populations State Actors and Insurg...

Designers and engineers that plan and manufacture technological systems imprint their values and practices onto these systems, without fully realizing that inconsistencies in cultural dimensions between developers and users may result in poor implementation of the new system due to resistance to change, among other causes. Therefore, manager's awareness of cultural differences is a necessary co...

Seeking to understand and reduce partisan hostility, we propose that humans evolved benefit from cultural societies. Societies perform two crucial tasks, which have grown apart are now championed by political opponents: (1) amassing resources, (2) distributing resources. The right focuses on whereas the left redistributing Both tasks needed for society flourish, but they foster contrary policie...

We study secessionist conflict driven by cultural and economic motives in a political union of two regions, and analyze under what conditions partial decentralization may serve as a conflict-mitigating strategy. While the probability of a successful secession is increasing in heterogeneity, it is increasing in interregional income inequality if and only if the union is socially efficient to sta...