The role of networking technologies has become increasingly more important with the employment of broadband networks which can facilitate cross-cultural understanding anywhere around the globe. This network technology has enabled us to realize multipoint connections on the Internet using videoconferencing systems that are blended with classroom activities in multicultural cyber learning. (Nishi...

The affects associated with culture, the values inherent in cultures and the identification of cultural assumptions are popular topics in recent management and Information Systems (IS) research. The main focus in relevant IS research over the years, has been on the comparison of cultural artifacts in different cultural settings. Despite these studies we need to ask whether there is a general ap...

The paradigm of Open-Innovation allows software companies new forms of interactive innovation and its diffusion across socio-cultural boundaries. This process constitutes and is constituted by a heterogeneous network of interacting actors. In this interaction, seeds for innovation will be created and have to be adopted by the participants of the respective network. This paper studies the concep...

Currently, little is known about how children from diverse cultural backgrounds within Australia view success in the classroom. Does being successful at school mean the same thing for all children? This study explores this issue by looking at two achievement goals: task goals and performance approach goals. Additionally, the study explores students’ perceptions of metacognition and its relation...

While psychology and communication have borrowed theories and methodologies from each other, much scholarly discussion tends to focus on the flow from psychology to communication. Relatively less attention has been paid to the work in communication that adds to psychology, particularly in examining the processes of developing relationships with culturally different others. It is timely for us t...

Purpose In the global economy, the need for understanding cross-cultural differences and the customer service-related processes involved in emotional labor is evident. The current study attempts to examine this issue by developing and testing hypotheses pertaining to crosscultural differences between U.S. and Chinese service workers on the levels of display rule perceptions, emotion regulation,...

The transfer of food among group members is a ubiquitous feature of small-scale forager and forager-agricultural populations. The uniqueness of pervasive sharing among humans, especially among unrelated individuals, has led researchers to evaluate numerous hypotheses about the adaptive functions and patterns of sharing in different ecologies. This article attempts to organize available crosscul...

The reduced noise of electric and hybrid electric vehicles has been of particular concern because of the potential danger that these vehicles pose to pedestrians when their approach is inaudible against background noise. To address this issue, the use of additional warning sounds in such vehicles is being considered in various countries. The aim of this study was to examine the feasible level o...

The goal of this brief communication is to report crosscultural data with relevance to researchers studying cooperative breeding in humans in the context of other non-human mammals. The data are derived from ethnographic research in 36 small-scale human populations/ cultural groups living on 5 continents. A number of recent accounts have described Homo sapiens as a species that practices cooper...