H uman language is unique among communication systems in being a cultural system characterized by prodigious and pervasive variation and flux on many dimensions [1, 2]. Until the advent of global communication, linguistic varieties were predominantly localized to spatially bound areas, and much research in dialectology has been devoted to understanding the shape and distribution of these dialec...

The importance of knowledge management has intensified as globalization has become more prevalent in the business world. Globalization has lead to a dispersion of general knowledge, clusters of specific knowledge, and numerous cultural differences in organizations. Organizations that implement effective knowledge management systems have the ability to leverage knowledgebased assets that can lea...

This paper attempted to present cultural dimensions which can be used to describe a specific culture. Culture does not result from tradition but from the activity of sharing, exploiting, using some area of the earth and its resources. Successful cultures are those that adjust these activities in response to the changing physical, social, and economic constraints of their environment.

— The state of Internet Adoption Curve in 2011 for the developed countries reveals an apparently optimistic picture: the majority of European and North American populations have adopted main online tools and resources. However, as access of the majority of these populations doesn't mean universal access, we review some of the main proposals about Digital Divide and the use of EU Digital inclusi...

Ms. S is a 42-year-old Russian woman who immigrated to the United States two years ago; she recently was diagnosed with stage III-A breast cancer. She underwent a partial mastectomy six weeks ago and was scheduled to begin adjuvant chemotherapy with doxorubicin and cyclophosphamide. Ms. S neither speaks nor understands English, and throughout her diagnosis and initial treatment, she appeared an...

The proposition that the technology of the Internet and Web offers a basis for culturally-neutral, computer-mediated communication was tested through a content analysis of 100 Mainland Chinese and American websites. It was found that the tools of the Internet and Web were neither fully neutral nor fully specific to the websites’ ‘home’ cultures. Cultural hybridisation and diffusion of innovatio...

This study compares previous analytical findings in the area of cultural web design using Hofstede’s dimensions with findings from a three year case study. This case study used an ethnographic and user-centric approach to better integrate cultural requirements into the website for a specific Indigenous community. We overview this design process and describe the ten key design features that were...

The goal of the present study is to supplement inter-cultural comparison of values as a cultural dimension by intra-cultural comparisons, and to go beyond comparisons of single values representing cultural dimensions by studying value patterns on the individual level. Therefore, relationships among general (individualism, collectivism) and domain-specific (familyand child-related) values and th...

Iranian identity cannot be conceived of as a uniform monolithic concept. But, thanks to certain upheavals in the history of the country, it has turned into the triple concept of national/Islamic/modern. Hofstede’s (2001) cultural framework represents a well-validated operationalization of culture based on six cultural dimensions  (power distance, individualism/collectivism, masculinity/feminini...

This article presents a theory of seven cultural value orientations that form three cultural value dimensions. This theory permits more finely tuned characterization of cultures than other theories. It is distinctive in deriving the cultural orientations from a priori theorizing. It also specifies a coherent, integrated system of relations among the orientations, postulating that they are inter...