This paper presents the results of a study investigating the influences of cultures on communication media choice within a multinational organization (MNO). A questionnaire was used to collect data from 121 respondents of a multinational organization across four countries; Australia, Korea, Thailand, and Malaysia. Cultural level difference was found to influence perception of media richness, ta...

Increasing multiculturalism and ongoing issues related to poor patient-centered care, teamwork, and safety call for urgent readdressing of cultural competency training. Critical cultural awareness education is needed to improve diversity in the nursing profession. Using Hofstede’s cultural dimension of InvidualismCollectivism, this paper proposes that the dominance of one culture may be the con...

the author in this research has tried to link the alexander pattern language theory, which is based on human oriented and spatial factors, to landscape design, which could come to a cyclic model of “a pattern language for landscape design” in iranian schools of architecture. so, a landscape design process based on the value of human-oriented approach, which is extracted from other values, and t...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to better understand how cross-cultural dynamics can be managed effectively by individuals in IT offshore outsourcing relationships. Design / methodology / approach – The research approach was an in-depth exploratory single-case study. The concept of cultural intelligence formed our theoretical foundations. A total of 15 semi-structured interviews were con...

This paper investigates the influence of transformational leadership on employees’ adaptive performance, the survey from 364 staff on 10 different industries found that adaptive performance of employees constituted by the six dimensions, they are innovative behavior, continuous learning, crisis management, stress management, interpersonal adaptability, and cultural adaptability; The data from t...

We examine why corporate governance varies widely across countries and across firms, and why such variation matters. Using a new database from Governance Metrics International on corporate governance practices across a large number of countries and firms for 2006-2011 and employing a hierarchical linear model specification, we find that the national cultural dimension of individualism is positi...