The article aims to illuminate the issues of impact current geopolitical situation on economic relations between Russian companies and their foreign partners, especially Eastern business associates, in a multicultural environment. purpose study is consider this interaction from perspective contextual cultural component. author investigates role context intercultural professional communication a...

The objective of the research dialogues with recent studies on presence a favorable environment for innovation while respecting and guided by theoretical perspectives that were built classic authors in this field research, such as Geert Hofstede Edgar Schein. 258 questionnaires answered data obtained analyzed using structural equation modeling (SEM) after tabulation statistical analysis softwar...

Human purchasing behavior is affected by many influential factors. Culture at macro-level and personality at microlevel influence consumer purchasing behavior. People of different cultures tend to accept the values of their own group and consequently have different purchasing behavior. Also, people in the same culture have some differences in their purchases which can be described by their pers...

Due to the increasingly multicultural nature of e-learning environments, it is critical that instructors and instructional designers be aware of the importance of cultural factors in education and that they deliver culturally adaptive instruction. The main challenge of this paper is identifying the critical success factors for multicultural online learning from learners’ perceptions and their r...

To understand the influence of culture on ethical attitudes, a variety of countries must be compared simultaneously to avoid confounding of cultural dimensions. This study uses data from the World Values Survey to develop a measure of ethical attitudes that shows partial measurement invariance across 44 countries. Regressing the resulting latent means on four cultural dimensions [Hofstede G. Cu...

Aligning IT to business needs is still one of the most important concerns for senior management. The message of Business & IT Alignment (BIA) is logical and undisputed, but implementation apparently difficult. As part of a research program on the differences between the theory and practice of BIA this paper presents a conceptual exploration of the impact of national cultures on the maturity of ...

This paper examines the main theoretical frameworks for analysis of comparative cultural attitudes. A critical discussion of the work by Kluckholm and Strodtbeck, Hofstede and Trompenaars leads to a new theoretical approach for study of the national cultural attitudes and norms of behaviour. A methodology based on action research is designed to compare the ‘internalised’ norms of behaviour with...

Information Architecture (IA) has emerged as a discipline that is concerned with the development of systematic approaches to the presentation and organization of online information. The IA discipline has commanded significant attention from professional practitioners but lacks in the theoretical perspective. In our effort to formalize the knowledge of the discipline, we report on the extension ...

Smart communities provide technologies for monitoring social behaviors inside communities. The technologies that support knowledge building should consider the cultural background of community members. The studies of the influence of the culture on knowledge building is limited. Just a few works consider digital traces of individuals that they explain using cultural values and beliefs. In this ...

AIB Insights 5 my 1980 monoGrAph culture’s consequences demonstrated how differences between the cultures of nations could be meaningfully described as relative positions on a limited number of measurable “dimensions.” These dimensions were empirically based on anthropologically meaningful personal values dominant in the respective nations, measured through questionnaires. This “dimension parad...