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J. Roberto Evaristo

University of Denver

Publishes on Knowledge Management and Sharing, Team Dynamics and Performance, Technology Adoption and User Behaviour. 34 papers and 1.1k citations.

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Levels of Culture and Individual Behavior
Elena Karahanna, J. Roberto Evaristo, Mark Srite|Journal of Global Information Management|2005
Cited by 359

In an organizational setting, national culture is not the only type of culture that influences managerial and work behavior. Rather, behavior is influenced by different levels of culture ranging from the supranational (regional, ethnic, religious, linguistic) level through the national, professional, and organizational levels to the group level. The objective of this study is to integrate these different levels of culture by explicitly recognizing that individuals’ workplace behavior is a function of all different cultures simultaneously. It is theorized that the relative influence of the different levels of culture on individual behavior varies depending on the nature of the behavior under investigation. Thus, for behaviors that include a strong social component or include terminal and moral values, supranational and national cultures might have a predominant effect. For behaviors with a strong task component or for those involving competence values or practices, organizational and professional cultures may dominate. These propositions are illustrated with examples from the IS field. This paper is a conceptual study and therefore extends theory and the current understanding of how culture is examined by not only explicitly recognizing that behaviors are simultaneously influenced by multiple levels of culture but by also specifying conditions under which certain levels of culture dominate. Such an approach has the potential to inform researchers and practitioners about the generalizability or universality of theories and techniques across national, organizational, and professional borders.

Distributed Software Development: Toward an Understanding of the Relationship Between Project Team, Users and Customers.
Rafael Prikladnicki, Jorge Luis Nicolas Audy, J. Roberto Evaristo|International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems|2003
Cited by 48

The objective of this paper is to propose a typology for distributed software development comprising the relation between the three main stakeholders: project team (developers, analysts, managers, testers, system administrator, etc), customers and users. We propose a set of criteria to define geographically distributed environments. As a result, a model to define the distribution level for an organization in a Distributed Software Development (DSD) environment is presented. The model is applied to two exploratory case studies and its results discussed. These cases studies involve companies with headquarters in the United States and a development unit in Brazil. Advantages of this model as well as some aspects of the increasing distribution of software development particularly in a few Brazilian organizations are discussed.