The primary accomplishment of this study is to explore how national culture dissimilarities impact pre and post performances of the resulted acquirers in China Merger and Acquisition (M&A) cases. This article developed the simplified representations of the National Culture Dissimilarity Index (NCDI) to examine the built-in models by taking hierarchical regression analysis approach. The NCDI con...

Understanding of the effectiveness of work-teams is a major issue in the business world, where they are expected to facilitate developing individual skills and increasing organizations’ efficiency. Eighty-three engineers working in teams have responded to a questionnaire devised to measure perceptual power distances, the sense of relatedness, cohesion measured by integration around the task, an...

This paper is concerned with finite groups G(◦) and G(∗) of order n that are not isomorphic, and where the size of {(u, v) ∈ G×G; u◦v 6= u∗v} is the least possible (with respect to the given n). It surveys the case of 2-groups, discusses the possible generalization of the known results to p-groups, p an odd prime, and establishes the least possible distance in the case when G(∗) is an elementar...

Agent-based computational economics studies the nature of economic processes by means of artificial agents that simulate human behavior. Human behavior is known to be scripted by cultural background. The processes of trade partner selection and negotiation work out differently in different communities. Different communities have different norms regarding trust and opportunism. These differences...

The aim of the current study was to investigate the perceived psychic distance of potentialtourists in relation to Iran as a tourism destination. The concept of psychic distance refersto perceived similarities/ differences between specific destination and tourist's homecountry. The members of couch-surfing virtual community participated in this study. Thestatistical data were collected by conve...

This paper describes a method for automatically improving the parameters of the edit distance used in a given nearest-neighbor pattern classiication task. The method uses a simple self-consistent procedure which assigns costs to the basic editing operations according to their discriminative power. The discriminative powers of operations are deened based on the statistics of their use when a pro...

This review places intergroup encounters in a broad framework which considers the context in which such encounters take place, and in particular, the power dynamics at play. We address different forms of encounters, spanning from interpersonal interactions (not focused on intergroup aspects) to political negotiations between the groups’ representatives, and argue for a deeper consideration of p...

There is growing interest in the influence of individuals’ usage of virtual social networks (VSNs) for professional and personal communication in a country on the levels of its human development, and how this effect differs across various cultures namely, power distance, individualism, masculinity and uncertainty avoidance. In this paper, we use publicly available archival data to explore the r...