Linking Chinese cultural values and the adoption of electric vehicles: The mediating role of ethical evaluation

2017 ◽  
Vol 56 ◽  
pp. 175-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lixian Qian ◽  
Juelin Yin
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Electric Vehicles ◽  
Ethical Evaluation ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Chinese Cultural Values

Translating Intervention: When Corporate Culture Meets Chinese Socialism

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 190-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Chan ◽  
Stewart Clegg ◽  
Matthew Warr
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Corporate Culture ◽  
Chinese Communist Party ◽  
Corporate America ◽  
Business World ◽  
The Core ◽  
Chinese Cultural Values ◽  
Contemporary Chinese

Under socialist development, the contemporary Chinese Communist Party (CCP) refashions thought management with a changed message. The Party increasingly promotes Chinese cultural values, through a policy of designed corporate culture programs within state-owned and private enterprises. The culture is one that inculcates corporate cultural values “imported” from corporate culture discourses in the Western business world. A curious “translation of ideas” has occurred, ideas that have traveled from the Korean Peninsula and War, through the boardrooms of corporate America and into the mundane practices of the CCP, to build corporate culture. At the core of this culture are practices that Schein has termed coercive persuasion. This article discusses the role of coercive persuasion in two sites: (a) China’s state-owned enterprises and (b) private businesses and social organizations. We conclude that as ideas travel, they may change in substance, whereas in form and functionality, they remain surprisingly similar.

The relation between ethnic group attachment and prosocial tendencies: The mediating role of cultural values

2011 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian E. Armenta ◽  
George P. Knight ◽  
Gustavo Carlo ◽  
Ryan P. Jacobson
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Prosocial Tendencies ◽  
Group Attachment

scholarly journals The mediating role of anthropomorphism in adopting the intentional stance towards humanoid robots

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Serena Marchesi ◽  
Nicolas Spatola ◽  
Agnieszka Wykowska
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Humanoid Robots ◽  
Human Robot Interaction ◽  
Path Model ◽  
Intentional Stance ◽  
Cognitive Mechanisms ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
The Relationship

Evidence from cognitive psychology showed that cultural differences influence human social cognition, leading to a different activation of social cognitive mechanisms. A growing corpus of literature in Human-Robot Interaction is investigating how culture shapes cognitive processes like anthropomorphism or mind attribution when humans face artificial agents, such as robots. The present paper aims at disentangling the relationship between cultural values, anthropomorphism, and intentionality attribution to robots, in the context of the intentional stance theory. We administered a battery of tests to 600 participants from various nations worldwide and modeled our data with a path model. Results showed a consistent direct influence of collectivism on anthropomorphism but not on the adoption of the intentional stance. Therefore, we further explored this result with a mediation analysis that revealed anthropomorphism as a true mediator between collectivism and the adoption of the intentional stance. We conclude that our findings extend previous literature by showing that the adoption of the intentional stance towards humanoid robots depends on anthropomorphic attribution in the context of cultural values.

Cultural values and consumers’ expectations and perceptions of service encounter quality

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masoud Karami ◽  
Mohamad Mehdi Maleki ◽  
Alan J. Dubinsky
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Cosmetic Surgery ◽  
Discriminant Validity ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Service Encounter ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
The Impact

Purpose The purpose of the study is to explore the impact of cultural values on perceptions of service encounter quality by examining the potentially mediating role of service encounter expectations. Design/methodology/approach A questionnaire was designed to collect data from 30 cosmetic clinic patients in Tehran, Iran. Confirmatory factor analysis was used to test the convergent and discriminant validity of the scales. Moreover, path modeling and bootstrapping were implemented using Smartpls 2.0 (M3) software to analyze the collected data and to assess the research model (Figure 1). Findings Cultural values have a significant impact on both expectations and perceptions of service encounter quality. Moreover, findings show that expectations of service encounter quality have an impact on perceptions of service encounter quality. The mediating role of service encounter expectations was confirmed. Research limitations/implications There are additional issues that should be addressed about different aspects of service encounters in developing countries. Moreover, subcultures provide attractive context for service quality perception research; subcultures comprise a large consumer market having its own cultural values that future research could examine. Practical implications Healthcare service providers should understand the cultural values of patients that may differ by social demographic characteristics. Providing a service that enhances patient cultural values might enhance success in the plastic surgery market, because such surgery may assist one in gaining recognition and improving their relationships with others. Clinic managers should consider Iran as a developing country, with its considerable young population having modern self-oriented demands, should be a desirable market for cosmetics and beauty care products. Originality/value Using the concept of Schwartz’s basic human values model to assess consumers’ cultural values and its impact on service encounter quality was the study’s main contribution. Moreover, it is among few studies conducted in the cosmetic surgery industry in a developing country’s context.

Understanding the ecologically conscious behaviors of status motivated millennials

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Kilsheimer Eastman ◽  
Rajesh Iyer
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Power Distance ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Environmental Behaviors ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose This paper aims to test the relationship between millennials’ status motivation and their ecologically conscious consumer behavior (ECCB) and the mediating role of culture influencing this effect. Design/methodology/approach A panel of millennials was surveyed using established scales to measure their status motivation, cultural values and ECCB. Findings The findings demonstrate status motivation has a positive effect on millennials’ ECCB. The findings indicate that the cultural values of collectivism, power distance and masculinity mediate the relationship between status motivation and ECCB. Research limitations/implications This study looked at responses from one generation, millennials, in one country, the USA. Practical implications Status motivation can impact ECCB and cultural values mediate this relationship. Status motivation can directly impact ECCB, as well as work positively through the cultural values of collectivism and power distance and negatively through masculinity. Social implications The results suggest ECCB for status-motivated millennials is driven by both status motivation and their collectivism, power distance and masculinity. To encourage millennials’ ECCB, public policymakers and marketers should emphasize the social influences of sustainable behaviors and how these behaviors make them stand out from others who are not sustainable and target those who view women as equal to men. Originality/value This research examines how millennials’ status motivations impact their ecologically conscious behaviors both directly and through the mediating role of cultural values. This research contributes by answering the call for looking at the influence of cultural values on environmental behaviors. It offers a possible reason for the mixed findings previously in the literature regarding status and sustainability by illustrating status motivations may work both directly and through cultural values in influencing ECCB. Thus, it is one of the first studies to demonstrate culture’s mediating effect in the area of sustainability.

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