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The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of the cultural factors on the acquisition of second language from the subjects, selected from registered students in university of science and technology. The subjects in this study were selected from the registered students in English learning courses in university of science and technology. Sixty-nine (69) undergraduates were made up two in-tact...
Previous empirical studies have analyzed emotional responses to form and color, across a variety of contexts and across cultures. Recently Amare and Manning proposed a systematic model that identifies a spectrum of emotional quality (agitation-amusement-focus) generally parallel to the familiar color spectrum (red-yellow-blue) and a spectrum of form (contrast-variety-pattern). For example, both the...
This study examined the antecedents and consequences of intensity of SNS use in a cross-cultural context. A survey of 977 SNS users was performed in Korea and USA, and the causal relationship was tested using structural equation modelling. Consumer innovativeness, propensity to share information, and privacy concern affected intensity of SNS use and the usage of SNS enabled social capital. In addition,...
Based on the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other area 350 state ownership enterprise employees' questionnaire survey, this paper introduced horizontal collectivism variables, using hierarchical regression method to explore the moderating effect of horizontal collectivism between job satisfaction and the union commitment. Specifically, in this paper, on the one hand, tested the relationship between job satisfaction...
In this paper, we shed a light on the intention-action relationship in the context of external behavioral information security threats. Specifically, external threats caused by employees' social engineering security actions were examined. This was done by examining the correlation between employees' reported intention to resist social engineering and their self-reported actions of hypothetical scenarios...
The mechanism that team conflict on organizational citizenship behaviors is far from conclusive in the context of Chinese culture. In order to further clarify this mechanism, this study examines the role of organizational justice in the relationship between two types of team conflict and organizational citizenship behavior. Drawing on the samples of 138 management team members in the 14 colleges and...
Transformational leadership is viewed as "universal across cultures", but "the way it exert influence are culturally specific". In the process of opening the black box of transformational leadership mechanism, cultural context is one of most remarkable variable among empirical studies. In this study, we conducted a meta-analysis to classify the differences of the relationship between...
Customer satisfaction (CS) gains lots of attention since it is believed to bring loyalty. However, are satisfied customers always loyal? Using meta-analytical method and based on 27 studies published from 1980 to 2007, we construct the moderators of CS-loyalty relationship model in four dimensions: cultural context, economic development, industry background and research method; and then put forward...
Despite the growing interest in cross-cultural research in the service encounters literature, little empirical research has been conducted on the effects of consumers' perceived service failure of inter-cultural service encounters. This study was designed to close this gap by investigating cultural-based service failure in intercultural service encounters and explore the relation between service failure...
This dissertation has designed the models from the perspective of team designed that described the relationship between top management team structural characteristic and performance, which based on TMT theory and absorbed the cultural and industrial content at the same time. Then through analysis how the structural characteristic influence the short-term and long-time performance and found that the...
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