Cultural characteristics of users play a significant role in their interactions and understanding of web based systems. Hence consideration of cultural issues in the design of a web based system can improve the usability of such a system. The relation between culture and the internet is symbiotic, that is, experience obtained from using the internet (with its rich cultural diversity) can also h...

This chapter presents a model of cognition as an attribute of groups and not just individuals, bringing into play cultural conceptualizations as the instrument of analysis. In this sense, cognition is viewed as an emergent phenomenon resulting from the interactions between the members of a group, who form a cognitive network across time and space. Collective cognitions, such as what I term cult...

This study examines the strength and direction of relationships between the self and social dimensions of both emotional and cultural intelligences and transformational leadership skills. Data was gathered from 171 students enrolled at Les Roches International School of Hotel Management in Switzerland. Statistical analyses included factor analysis, Cronbach’s Alpha, Pearson’ r, and regression. ...

This essay examines the ideological dimension of translation studies in present-day China, which can be viewed as an indicator of any discernible change in ideological fluctuations of translation. Based on an overview of translation studies in present-day China, this essay argues that the most urgent problem is the domestic climate for the social, cultural, political, and institutional sub-syst...

Most real estate studies have been concerned with exploring the macroeconomic determinants of housing prices. Little attention has been paid to the context in which property markets function. This study, however, goes beyond macroeconomic factors and explores how country specifi c factors such as cultural values infl uence residential property markets. We have tested and verifi ed the assumptio...

In this paper, we survey our recent work showing theoretically and empirically a link between individualist culture on one hand and long run growth and innovation. The individualism-collectivism cultural dimension is the only one that has a robust effect on measures of long run growth. We survey the cross-cultural psychology culture that finds that the individualism-collectivism cleavage is als...

We present empirical evidence that, among a variety of cultural dimensions, the individualism-collectivism dimension, based on Hofstede’s (2001) data, is the most important and robustly significant effect of culture on long run growth. Other dimensions that have a significant effect, albeit less robust, are generally strongly correlated with individualism and convey similar information. We foun...