BACKGROUND Cultural competence of healthcare professionals (HCPs) is recognized as a strategy to reduce cultural disparities in healthcare. However, standardised, valid and reliable instruments to assess HCPs' cultural competence are notably lacking. The present study aims to 1) identify the core components of cultural competence from a healthcare perspective, 2) to develop a self-report instru...

Jonardon Ganeri’s The Self: Naturalism, Consciousness, and the FirstPerson Stance is a trailblazing study in cross-cultural philosophy of mind. Its liberal conception of naturalism makes room for a rich analytic taxonomy of conceptions of personal identity that go well beyond the standard models of Cartesianism, Physicalism, and Reductionism. But this naturalistically respectable model of the s...

Lance and Hawthorne have served up a large, rich and argument-stuffed book which has much to teach us about central issues in the philosophy of language, as well as sports trivia. I shall concentrate, not surprisingly, on points I either disagreed with or found unclear; there are many acute observations, particularly in the second half of the book, that fall into neither of these categories. Th...

Despite the growing economic power of the Overseas Chinese and the People's Republic of China, Chinese business practices remain poorly understood. Recent studies do indicate that Chinese managers make remarkably limited direct use of computerbased information systems• A theory is developed to explain the observed phenomenon by first contrasting Western and Chinese philosophy and then consideri...

Warren Weaver, a biological scientist, wrote that. “..... as man’s control of his environment has proceeded... he has progressively uncovered more and unifying principles which accept the ever increasing variety, but recognize and underlying unity. He has, in short, discovered the many and the one.... The diversity....a surface phenomenon. When one looks underneath and within, the universal uni...

i It is hard not to notice that an increasing number of cross-cultural studies in Information Systems are being published in JGIM and other similarly oriented outlets in the last few years. Such trend, albeit to a lesser extent, is also seen in other top tier mainstream publications. For instance, in February of 2003 there was a special issue on " Cultural Issues and IT Management " in IEEE Tra...