Social face values are found to have influence on the willingness of sharing information within cultural contexts. Face values profoundly penetrate the whole Chinese society, reflecting a high collectivist and large power ...

During the 1990s, many Australian universities uncritically adopted problematic and unproven online learning technologies, leading to wasted resources, unfulfilled expectations and in some cases, program and organisational ...

A great deal of contention can be found within the published literature on grounding and the symbol grounding problem, much of it motivated by appeals to intuition and unfalsifiable claims. We seek to define a formal ...

China is going through a rapid transition phase from the old centrally planned economy to an increasingly open market economy. This paper examines whether the market orientation (MO) concept originally developed in the ...

The theoretical foundations, or lack of, and the future development of construction economics has been the subject of debate for some time. The purpose of the paper is to explain the basis for these and argue for the ...

This paper reveals the lack of discovery of the interrelationships between the various factors identified as key factors in building successful in client-consultant relationships. Masterful management of these success ...

This paper provides and overview of a multiple country examination of consumers¿ willingness to pay for social product features. Using latent class finite mixture modeling we show that segments of socially conscious consumers ...

Discrete choice experiments typically assume that preference structures remain stable over time and over multiple exposures to information about choice alternatives. However, this assumption may not be valid when the study ...