Abstract
In the Western cultural background, the Priority-Pointing Procedure (PPP), which is a qualitative research-based diagnostic procedure, has been proven to be able to point to a priority for action by measuring imbalances in the context of Nomology. As the starting point to prove its feasibility in the environment of the Eastern cultural background, we applied PPP to the research process of an Intercultural Trust Project, which was performed in Dublin, Ireland. In this paper we present the application of PPP in the environment of a mixed cultural background. We find that PPP is useful for defining variables and identifying imbalances.
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Du, R., Ai, S., Brugha, C.M. (2009). Priority-Pointing Procedure and Its Application to an Intercultural Trust Project. In: Shi, Y., Wang, S., Peng, Y., Li, J., Zeng, Y. (eds) Cutting-Edge Research Topics on Multiple Criteria Decision Making. MCDM 2009. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 35. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02298-2_45
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