This study attempts to combine the idea that culture gives rise to a form of natural election with Dan Sperber's positions concerning (1) the underlying dynamics of communication as inferring intended meanings according to their contextual relevance, and (2) the spread of distinct conceptions regarding different objects. Such a combinatory framework is intended as a viable answer to Sperber's c...

In this paper, we expand cultural Mindset Agency Theory. Recently, we have shown that the three bi-polar traits of a cultural agency personality (cognitive orientation; figurative orientation and operative orientation) result in eight extremal and contrasting mindset types. Through expansion of James Gross’s (1998) model of emotion regulation, and integrating this with Mindset Agency Theory, we...

this article discuss about public policy implementation for cultural space in iran. we want to design a model for implementing cultural policy. and will explain the factors of the model and the relations between them. then we will compare the proposed model with the other famous models on the word. the proposed model created with the qualitative methodology which is grounded theory (gt). with p...

PURPOSE: In this study, we investigated the commitment of cultural minorities and majorities in organizations. We examined how contextual factors, such as pressure to conform and leadership styles, affect the commitment of minority and majority members. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH: A field study was conducted on 107 employees in a large multinational corporation. FINDINGS: We hypothesize and fo...

Cultural consensus theory is a model-based approach for analyzing responses of informants when correct answers are unknown. The model provides aggregate estimates the latent knowledge at group level while accounting heterogeneity in informant competence and item difficulty. We develop new version cultural two-dimensional continuous judgments which obtained asking to locate set unknown sites on ...

The research question of this paper is what drives individual performance of members in IT offshore outsourcing projects. The research methodology chosen to analyze this research question is an exploratory and interpretive case study design. 15 unstructured and semi-structured interviews were conducted and analyzed with the aim of contributing to the theory-building process of individual perfor...