Search results for "national culture"
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Purchase intention and purchase behavior online: A cross-cultural approach
2020
This article aims to explore the key factors on e-commerce adoption from elements of social psychology, such as attitude, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control, ease of use and perceived usefulness, introducing the study of non-traditional elements like buying impulse, compatibility, and self-efficacy in online stores, contrasting relationships in a cross-cultural environment. The proposed model is tested from quantitative research with a sample of 584 online consumers in Colombia and Spain. The following statistical analyses were conducted: CFA, structural equations, measurement instrument invariance, and multi-group analysis with EQS 6.3 software. The study reveals that self-effi…
Have social media made their way in classrooms? a study at three European universities
2019
ABSTRACTThis study examines how college students perceive social media as a mean for learning and teaching and whether its use is associated with different variables that reflect both student and t...
Information Technology Issues in Finland
2020
Information technology (IT) industry is essential in Finland because of its significant export contribution, extensive workforce, and research and innovation contributions. This chapter highlights key issues in this important industry. For instance, IT reliability and efficiency are the top issues necessary for the Finnish IT industry’s competitiveness in a global context. Furthermore, business intelligence and analytics tools, techniques and skills are central to the Finnish IT industry. The industry has a very experienced workforce that is however aging and thus there is a need for training of young personnel to join the industry. Generally, the Finnish IT workers are satisfied with their…
National culture in post-apartheid Namibia: state-sponsored cultural festivals and their histories
2016
The Relationship Between Teacher Non-Verbal Communication and Student Behavior: A Cross-National Perspective
2020
This paper aims at providing insights on the role of non-verbal communication (NVC) in classroom by examining the relationship between teacher NVC cues and student behavior. Student behavior is considered in terms of perceptions of the match between the teacher and the student self-concept (i.e. self-image congruence), attention, and learning. Hypotheses are tested on a sample of students coming from Spain and Italy. Findings indicate that the student self-concept has the strongest relationship with teacher personal appearance, attention with paralinguistics, and learning with kinesics. Some differences are found in the strength of the examined relationships between Spanish and Italian stud…
La mirada histórica. Estrategias para abordar la cultura de la transición española
2015
Resumen: Las manifestaciones populares de 2011 en Madrid propiciaron una nueva ola de analisis de la transicion y su cultura. Una de las antologias publicadas en 2010 es especialmente productiva para discutir aproximaciones teoricas y practicas a este tema. Algunos autores del volumen utilizan un tono revolucionario que rechaza de plano la cultura hegemonica de la transicion y, a partir de las reacciones populares contra el status quo, preven un idilico volver a empezar de la cultura espanola. Sin embargo, un analisis historico de estas posiciones muestra una relacion inquietante y familiar que las conecta con las bases mismas de la cultura de la transicion. A traves del analisis de este ca…
Cross-national cultural values and nascent entrepreneurship
2016
This article, differentiating between factual and normative values, investigates the links between national culture and entrepreneurial activity in 24 countries based on 154 observations. We test hypotheses on the relationship between national culture—measured by Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness (GLOBE)—and nascent entrepreneurship as represented by Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM). Both the GEM and the GLOBE databases are robust in terms of forming empirical connections between factual and normative culture and entrepreneurship at the country level. Using these two separate databases to examine our hypotheses enables us to avoid the methodological biases th…
Bullfighting: The Legal Protection of Suffering
2018
Bullfighting has been recently accepted as Cultural Heritage by the Spanish Government. There is a current initiative to declare bullfighting as Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) and include it in the UNESCO list. The proponents of such initiatives contend that bullfighting should be protected and promoted on the grounds that it is an artistic activity, part of the national culture. In this chapter, I discuss the moral arguments and legal aspects that can be pitted against such a cruel practice. More specifically, I will examine the serious obstacles to the legal protection of such practices, which cause suffering and aim at killing nonhuman animals based on cultural or artistic reasons.
Higher Education and Markets in France
2004
When looking at the place of the market in French higher education, one might be surprised by the distance between the opportunities offered by the legal framework and the actual behaviour of institutions and individuals. It is certainly partly due to a national culture that views education as a public service that needs to be provided through a centralised organisation.
The effects of national culture on corporate social responsibility disclosure: a cross-country comparison
2017
This article presents a cross-country analysis of the influence of national culture on corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure. We analyse the relationship between the Hofstede’s cultural ...