Maturity level modeling has been a well-established and important stream of IS research. Maturity models have played a significant role in guiding organizational process improvements in many areas. It is therefore surprising that maturity model design and development methodologies have not yet been scrutinized from cross-cultural and international perspectives. In this research, we have prescri...

In difficult financial times, companies face various moral issues to try to keep up with their competitors. Although these issues have a direct impact on employee decision making, businesses rarely address how employees should assess the ethics of their actions and incorporate ethics into their decisions. Often this can be alleviated by creating and maintaining a corporate culture with a focus ...

The economy has been highly developed in Japan and its GDP per capita has exceeded US thirty thousand dollars. The total GDP calculated on a basis of international exchange rate ranks No. 2 in the world. In the meantime, Japan is the fourth biggest export country and the sixth biggest import country in the world. How could Japan jump to be one of the richest countries, the most developed in eco...

BACKGROUND Although China ratified the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control [FCTC] in 2005, the partial ban on tobacco advertising does not cover the internet. Weibo is one of the most important social media channels in China, using a format similar to its global counterpart, Twitter. The Weibo homepage is a platform to present products, brands and corporate culture. There is great poten...

This paper attempts to examine the issues surrounding the role of national culture bias and the concept of distance among Hofstede's (1980) cultural dimensions on the ability to reach integrative agreements in international business arrangements between firms. Relational models of negotiating and the role of culture are presented as well as several managerial implications and propositions for f...

values matter to business process management? Results from a global Delphi study. Notice: Changes introduced as a result of publishing processes such as copy-editing and formatting may not be reflected in this document. For a definitive version of this work, please refer to the published source. Abstract Purpose – Business Process Management (BPM) requires a holistic perspective that includes m...

The increasingly complex environment, development of technology-based products, and customization of demand challenge the reaction speed of the enterprise; for the success of organizational management, the teams usually reform the enterprise, create new ideas, produce innovative models with better results, and thus make important contributions to the organization through the use of internal ope...