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Culture, profession, and attitudes towards educational technology: a large-scale, german-romanian study

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Armin Weinberger,

Nicolae NistorAuthors Info & Claims

ICIC '10: Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Intercultural collaboration

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1841853.1841886

Published: 19 August 2010 Publication History

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Cultural dimensions and attitudes towards educational technology may differ between countries and ethnicities, but also between professional groups. This study examines a bicultural, German and Romanian sample (N = 2834) that includes both participants with technical and with non-technical professions. Results show large differences between Germans and Romanians as well as small differences between participants of technical and non-technical professions regarding Hofstede's cultural dimensions and regarding attitudes towards technology. The results will be discussed with respect to expanding Hofstede's framework towards differentiating between cultural sub-samples.

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ICIC '10: Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Intercultural collaboration

August 2010

300 pages

ISBN:9781450301084

DOI:10.1145/1841853

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Pamela Hinds
Stanford University, USA
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Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
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Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
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Toru Ishida
Kyoto University, Japan
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Martha Maznevski
International Institute for Management Development (IMD), Switzerland
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Gary Olson
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