Context: Software Process Improvement initiatives have been around for many years with the growing globalisation of software development is making them increasingly important. Objective: The objective of this exploratory research is to gain an in-depth understanding of barriers that can undermine SPI, in the context of Global Software Development, from the perspective of software development pr...

People engage in a number of common everyday activities that appear to have no business utility. However, by mediating such cultural processes with technology it is possible to adapt them for business purposes. This paper presents a case study of a novel, virtually no-cost, yet extremely effective online advertising mechanism used for the past three years in a special kind of business web site ...

An eight-equation model embodies the hypothesis that cultural differences among ethnic-religious groups give rise to differences in psychological dispositions, which, though not directly observable, influence occupational achievement, directly or via educational attainment, while being subject to feedback from one or the other of these endogenous variables. Dispositions are reflected in three f...

As the use of cell phones pervades over the world, globalization of user interface (UI) design is emphasized in developing cell phones for successful business. In reality, however, it is rarely possible to design a product that satisfies all international and intercultural customers. UI designers, therefore, need to collect cross-cultural usability information in the product development process...

Cultural polymorphism is a difficult phenomenon, which has multiform influence on the society's life. The active interest of society to local folk knowledge in life-support activities and Nature using is one of the distinctive marks of modern time. This interest has fallen on the period of active transformations of environment as a result of industrial society's pressing on Nature, and the gene...

This paper discusses the role of cultural anthropology in Cognitive Science. Culture is described as a very large pool of information passed along from generation to generation, composed of learned "programs" for action and understanding. These cultural programs differ in important ways from computer programs. Cultural programs tend to be unspecified and inexplicit rather than clearly stated al...

In this paper we present the results of an international comparative research conducted through a special web survey, i.e. an online ‘game’ to rate and classify Critical Success Factors (CFSs) for BPMS implementations. The survey was completed by 39 respondents from 11 different countries. Central to the research was the question how BPM-systems success factors are perceived by professionals fr...

In Part I of an article on "Cultural Action for Freedom," Freire advocates a theory and practice of the adult literacy process based upon authentic dialogue between teachers and learners. Becoming literate is truly an act of knowing, through which a person is able to look critically at the world and to reflect and act upon it. In this article, Part I of Cultural Action for Freedom, Paulo Freire...

With regard to the increasing complexity and heterogeneization of the organizations, the technological and organizational dimensions in the software process modeling are passing through an integration period. In this article we present a methodological framework in order to analyze the software construction models cultural feasibility. A symbiotic multilevel software process cycle model (SMPCM)...