Evaluation of Cross-Cultural Models for Psychological Operations: Test of a Decision Modeling Approach

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerry Barucky ◽  
Bryan Karabaich ◽  
Brice Stone
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Models ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Decision Modeling ◽  
Modeling Approach ◽  
Psychological Operations

scholarly journals What Are Friends for in Russia Versus Canada?: An Approach for Documenting Cross-Cultural Differences

2021 ◽  
pp. 106939712110245
Author(s):  
Marina M. Doucerain ◽  
Andrew G. Ryder ◽  
Catherine E. Amiot
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Group Membership ◽  
Cultural Models ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Group ◽  
Mental Maps ◽  
Cross Cultural Differences

Most research on friendship has been grounded in Western cultural worlds, a bias that needs to be addressed. To that end, we propose a methodological roadmap to translate linguistic/anthropological work into quantitative psychological cross-cultural investigations of friendship, and showcase its implementation in Russia and Canada. Adopting an intersubjective perspective on culture, we assessed cultural models of friendship in three inter-related ways: by (1) deriving people’s mental maps of close interpersonal relationships; (2) examining the factor structure of friendship; and (3) predicting cultural group membership from a given person’s friendship model. Two studies of Russians (Study 1, n = 89; Study 2a, n = 195; Study 2b, n = 232) and Canadians (Study 1, n = 89; Study 2a, n = 164; Study 2b, n = 199) implemented this approach. The notions of trust and help in adversity emerged as defining features of friendship in Russia but were less clearly present in Canada. Different friendship models seem to be prevalent in these two cultural worlds. The roadmap described in the current research documents these varying intersubjective representations, showcasing an approach that is portable across contexts (rather than limited to a specific cross-cultural contrast) and relies on well-established methods (i.e., easily accessible in many research contexts).

scholarly journals Book review of: Metaheuristics for Business Analytics. A Decision Modeling Approach by Abraham Duarte, Manuel Laguna,and Rafael Martí

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 88
Author(s):  
Dragana Makajić-Nikolić
Keyword(s):  
Operational Research ◽  
Decision Modeling ◽  
Business Analytics ◽  
Modeling Approach ◽  
International Publishing

Book review of:  Metaheuristics for Business Analytics. A Decision Modeling Approach by Abraham Duarte, Manuel Laguna,and Rafael Martí. Springer International Publishing, Series: EURO Advanced Tutorials on Operational Research, 2018, 136 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-68117-7, eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-68119-1

scholarly journals Exploring Cross-Cultural Differences In Social Knowledge Creation And Exchange: A Preliminary Examination

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
John Girard ◽  
Andy Bertsch
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Cultural Models ◽  
Correlation Coefficients ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
Social Knowledge ◽  
Cross Cultural Differences ◽  
Cultural Research ◽  
The Social

This paper chronicles an exploratory, in-progress research project that compares the findings of Hofstede’s cross-cultural research with those of Forrester’s Social Technographics research.  The aim of the project is to determine if a relationship exists between cultural differences and social knowledge creation and exchange.  Part one of the study mapped Davenport and Prusak’s information and knowledge creation theories to the six components of Forrester’s Social Technographics study (creators, critics, collectors, joiners, spectators, and inactives).  Next, the Social Technographics results from 13 nations were compared with Hofstede’s four cultural dimensions (power distance, individualism, uncertainty avoidance, masculinity).  The analysis included exploring the relationship visually using 24 scatter diagrams, running correlation coefficients (Peasson’s r) for each relationship, testing for significance of Pearson’s r, and finally conducting regression analyses on each relationship. Although the authors believe that culture influences behaviours, this study did not reveal any reasonable relationships between culture and placement along the Social Technographics.  However, it is possible that there exists problems in the Hofstede scales.  The Hofstede scales have been highly criticized in the literature.  It may be that other cross-cultural models such as GLOBE, Schwartz, Triandis, or others may yield different results.  In this regard, further research is necessary.  The next phase of the project will compare Social Technographics with the GLOBE project findings.

More alike than different? A comparison of variance explained by cross-cultural models

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
James G. Field ◽  
Frank A. Bosco ◽  
David Kraichy ◽  
Krista L. Uggerslev ◽  
Mingang K. Geiger
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Models ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Variance Explained

scholarly journals TOPSIS Multi-Criteria Decision Modeling Approach for Biolubricant Selection for Two-Stroke Petrol Engines

Energies ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 13960-13970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masoud Dehghani Soufi ◽  
Barat Ghobadian ◽  
Gholamhassan Najafi ◽  
Mohammad Sabzimaleki ◽  
Talal Yusaf
Keyword(s):  
Decision Modeling ◽  
Modeling Approach ◽  
Selection For
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