When Cultures Meet : Modelling Cross-Cultural Knowledge Spaces
Abstract
Cross-cultural research projects are becoming a norm in our global world. More and more projects are being executed using teams from eastern and western cultures. Cultural competence might help project managers to achieve project goals and avoid potential risks in cross-cultural project environments and would also support them to promote creativity and motivation through flexible leadership. In our paper we introduce an idea for constructing an information system, a cross-cultural knowledge space, which could support cross-cultural communication, collaborative learning experiences and time-based project management functions. The case cultures in our project are Finnish and Japanese. The system can be used both in virtual and in physical spaces for example to clarify cultural business etiquette. The core of our system design will be based on cross-cultural ontology, and the system implementation on XML technologies. Our approach is a practical, step-by-step example of constructive research. In our paper we shortly describe Hofstede’s dimensions for assessing cultures as one example of a larger framework for our study. We also discuss the concept of time in cultural context.
Main Author
Format
Books
Book part
Published
2008
Series
Subjects
Publication in research information system
Publisher
IOS Press
Original source
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.09635v1
The permanent address of the publication
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-202111025478Use this for linking
Parent publication ISBN
978-1-58603-812-0
Review status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
0922-6389
Language
English
Published in
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
Is part of publication
Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases. XIX
Citation
- Heimbürger, A. (2008). When Cultures Meet : Modelling Cross-Cultural Knowledge Spaces. In T. Tokuda, H. Jaakkola, & Y. Kiyoki (Eds.), Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases. XIX (pp. 314-321). IOS Press. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, 166. https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.09635v1
Additional information about funding
We express our deep thanks to the Satakunta High Technology Foundation and to the Scandinavia-Japan Sasakawa Foundation for funding the preliminary phase of our research project.
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