Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: This paper sets out to explore influences on the provision of content in Advanced Information Technologies (AIT). The AIT that is used in this paper is a corporate yellow pages. Corporate yellow pages are homepages on the intranet of organizations that describe competences, tasks, etc. of employees. A search through these pages is initiated with a “who knows” question, making it possible to identify knowledge of unknown employees. The paper argues that the same influences on the provision of content can be distinguished as postulated by Adapative Structuration Theory. This theory was developed to explain the influences on the use of an AIT. However, in some cases AIT can be used in two ways. Once when providing information to the technology (e.g., filling out a yellow page) and once when using information from the technology (e.g., using yellow pages to find a knowledgeable colleague). Structural equation modeling was used to see whether the influences on appropriation as proposed by AST were operating in the appropriation of content in Yellow Pages. The model is partly supported by the results.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: Most adaptation research focuses on immigrants' experience adapting into the host culture. In light of the growing globalization of world economy and the fact that more companies are setting up branches around the world, we would like to address the issue of cultural adaptation for employees in a multicultural organization. Samsung-Tijuana Park is the site for a Korean electronic company and its manufacture site in the U.S.-Mexican border city of Tijuana. One the one hand, Koreans move to Mexico and face a real sense of cultural adaptation into the host culture. On the other, local Mexican employees also need to adapt to the Korean organization culture. Through a search in previous literature on culture adaptation, we determined four factors about the individual's conditions: preparation, expectation, communication skills, and time in contact with the second culture. Many adaptation models use stages to represent the process, therefore, we summarized four states: anticipation, peak, valley, and smooth. We treated these eight concepts as variables and focused our study on finding possible correlations among them. Results show a general tendency for positive factors such as preparation and communication abilities to be positively correlated to positive states of adaptation such as peak and smooth. Consequently, there is a negative correlation between these positive factors and the valley state, which is the most obvious negative state. The similar patterns of correlation for both the Korean and Mexican cultural groups suggest that adaptation takes place when both parties are involved in the effort. We use the term "co-acculturation." Limitations and future directions are discussed.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: This paper presents the theory and research basis of thoughtfully adaptive instruction and explains the program effects of the instruction and subsequent data collected and analyzed of our preservice teachers.

Publication Type: Proceeding

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: In the early 1990’s, the paradigmatic neo-corporatist system in Europe began to unravel. Austria’s Social Partnership system simultaneously faced political challenges to its legitimacy, liberalization of the national economy, and integration into European and global markets. While the macro-level coordination that defined the system has been essentially destroyed by these changes, this paper argues that the institutions of neo-corporatism in Austria continue to fulfil important roles in providing services to constituents and enhancing the effectiveness of government intervention in the economy. At the micro- and meso-levels, the Chambers of Labor and Commerce have adapted to a new set of roles and retain important characteristics that distinguish them from pluralist organizations as both lobbying groups and as quasi-public administrative bodies that enhance the effectiveness of economic intervention by the state.