نتایج جستجو برای: uncertainty avoidance

تعداد نتایج: 159831  

1991
Huosheng Hu Michael Brady Penelope Probert

In this paper, we address the issues related to navigation and control of a mobile robot which enable it to deal with unexpected moving obstacles by sensor-based control. We propose a probabilistic approach to deal with collision avoidance under uncertainty. We assume that the uncertainties both in the position of a moving obstacle and the error of the measurements is normally distributed. The ...

2009
Ellen Czaika Ricardo Valerdi

Systems engineering work is requiring increasing collaboration among various enterperprises, nations, and individuals to innovate to meet the comlex needs of large numbers of stakeholders. This indicates a need to better understand the cultural differences in innovation styles that can enable or hinder collaboration. This paper argues that applying the Hofstede Cross-Cultural Dimensions to ente...

2008
Ayssam Yehia Elkady Tarek M. Sobh

In the last several years, mobile manipulators have been increasingly utilized and developed from a theoretical viewpoint as well as for practical applications in space, underwater, construction, and service environments. Our mobile manipulator RISCbot, is comprised of a manipulator arm mounted on a motorized mobile base wheelchair. The work presented in this chapter explores the use of multi-s...

Journal: :MIS Quarterly 2006
Mark Srite Elena Karahanna

Prior research has examined age, gender, experience, and voluntariness as the main moderators of beliefs on technology acceptance. This paper extends this line of research beyond these demographic and situational variables. Motivated by research that suggests that behavioral models do not universally hold across cultures, the paper identifies espoused national cultural values as an important se...

Journal: :Electronic Commerce Research and Applications 2013
Dianne Cyr

Please cite this article in press as: Cyr, D. Web dx.d oi.org/10.1016/j.elerap.20 13.03.0 07 User perceptions of website design (for Information Content, Information Design, Navigation Desig n, Visual Design), Website Trust, and Transaction Security are examined for differences in an eight country sample. Motivation for the investigat ion includ es: (1) to test and comp are user reactions to we...

2009
David A. Kolb

This study examines the role that culture plays in the way individuals learn. Experiential learning theory is used to describe the learning process and the Kolb Learning Style Inventory is used to assess differences in how individuals learn. Using the framework for categorizing cultural differences from the Global Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness (GLOBE) study, national cultures are ...

2013
Christopher P. Furner Pradeep Racherla Zhen Zhu

Recent changes in web technologies have given a voice to consumers in online discussion of products and services. While the web has long been a source of information about products and services, web content was controlled by those who knew how to develop for the web, or those who could hire web developers. The trend toward web software that permits novice users to contribute to conversations ab...

2016
Christine Bauer Michael Schiffinger

Disclosing personal information to a crowd, with all its risks and benefits, is almost ubiquitous in Web 2.0. Drawing on privacy calculus (PC) theory, we investigate whether cultural differences moderate the effect of risk and benefit assessment on online self-disclosure (OSD) in person-to-crowd settings. Empirically, our study relies on a (statistical) meta-analysis of 38 studies. Our findings...

2009
Simy Joy David A. Kolb

This study examines the role that culture plays in the way individuals learn. Experiential learning theory is used to describe the learning process and the Kolb Learning Style Inventory is used to assess differences in how individuals learn. Using the framework for categorizing cultural differences from the Global Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness (GLOBE) study, national cultures are ...

2007
Andres Ramirez Solomon Tadesse William Davidson

We examine the relations between national cultures, the multinationality of the firm and its holdings of cash. We develop several hypotheses from well known corporate finance theories and theories of the multinational firm, positing that cultural factors as well as the degree of multinationality of firms influence their decisions to hold cash. In particular, firms in countries with high uncerta...

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