Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cultures, situations, and behaviors : theories and models that explain why best-laid plans go awry / William B. Rouse -- Explaining cultural differences in decision making using decision field theory / Mervin R. Matthew and Jerome R. Busemeyer -- Dynamic decision making and cultural affiliation / Cleotilde Gonzalez and Jolie M. Martin -- Why do people think culturally when making decisions? Theory and evidence / Yuk-Yue Tong and Chi-Yue Chiu -- Cross-cultural decision making : impact of values and beliefs on decision choices / Parasuram Balasubramanian -- Cultural factors, technology, and operations in developing countries : two case studies / David M. Upton -- Building global teams for effective industrial research and development / Juan M. de Bebout -- Cultural factors : their impact in collaboration support systems and on decision quality / Shimon Y. Nof -- Effects of group orientation and communications style on making decisions and interacting with robots / Pei-Luen Patrick Rau and Ye Li -- Deliberation and medical decision making / Kathryn E. Flynn ... [et al.] -- Design of performance evaluation and management systems for territorial healthcare networks of services / Agostino Villa and Dario Bellomo -- Decision making in healthcare system design : when human factors engineering meets health care / Pascale Carayon and Anping Xie -- Cultural factors in the adoption and implementation of health information technology / Atif Zafar and Mark R. Lehto -- Cutlural factors and information systems : an application to privacy decisions in online environments / Fariborz Farahmand -- Factors influencing the decisions and actions of pilots and air traffic controllers in three plausible NextGen environments / Kim-Phuong L. Vu ... [et al.] -- Cross-cultural decision making and action : issues, challenges, and prospects / Robert W. Proctor, Kim-Phuong L. Vu, and Gavriel Salvendy.