A5 an increasing number of organizations reach across national boundaries, organizational research increasingly addresses the question ofhow national culture influences individual behavior (Erez & Earley, 1993; Hofstede, 1991). Researchers face a choice among numerous definitions of culture and methods for studying it that have been developed in different academic disciplines (Keesing, 1974). A...

In recent years, a number of organisations have invested heavily in executive information systems (EIS) in order to improve the performance gains of their executives’ roles. Although executives presided over and authorised investment in EIS projects to support their roles, the majority of executives are unenthusiastic about using EIS because of the design flaws and failures of these systems. St...

Understanding virtual community (VC) participation is of importance to VC organizers and VC researchers. Although VC participation has been explored from diverse perspectives, few studies offer a comprehensive theoretical framework to explain why people participate in VCs. This paper contributes to virtual community research by proposing and empirically validating an exploratory theoretical fra...

A hypothetical model about person's independent and interdependent construal of the self was proposed, based on the theories proposed by Markus and Kitayama (1991), Triandis (1989) and Yamaguchi (1994). The purpose of this study was to construct a scale for measuring individual difference on the independent and interdependent construal of the self and to examine its reliability and validity. Fo...

Objetivo do estudo: Neste estudo, discute-se "etnocentrismo e inteligência cultural" como características únicas dos indivíduos o efeito mediador da atitude em relação à EWOM, que consiste nos pensamentos outros sobre países estrangeiros, nas relações dessas com as intenções de para ir férias destinos estrangeiros. Metodologia: Resultados podem ser avaliados na teoria prática foram obtidos inve...

Guilt and shame proneness are commonly thought to be associated with culture, yet research on this relationship is fragmented often inconsistent. In a review of the existing social scientific literature, we demonstrate that no consistent between guilt shame, one hand, individualism collectivism, other, has been established. To move area forward, apply new 2-dimensional, quaternary perspective b...

Theoretical models from social psychology have been widely used by information systems (IS) researchers as theoretical foundations to explain and predict information systems use and acceptance. Unfortunately none of these models explicitly addresses: individual personality traits that trigger intentions within the individuals leading to the observable behaviors of the individual; how environmen...

Models of culture are operationalized as individualism and collectivism and have not given sufficient attention to other organizing axes—especially how a society handles power, dependence, and equality. Shavitt, Lalwani, Zhang, and Torelli (2006) make a significant contribution by first reminding the field of power distance (Hofstede, 1980) and then moving beyond a single factor to highlight be...