National Culture Practices and Societal Information Dissemination Capacity

2010 ◽  
Vol 09 (02) ◽  
pp. 127-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Omar E. M. Khalil ◽  
Ahmed Seleim
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
National Culture ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Future Orientation ◽  
Uncertainty Avoidance ◽  
Gender Egalitarianism ◽  
Societal Level ◽  
Comparison Of The Results ◽  
The Impact

Societies exhibit varying capacities for information dissemination. This research explores the impact of national culture practices on information dissemination capacity (IDC) at the societal level. Nine hypotheses were formulated and tested. Countries with high information dissemination capacities were found to have a pattern of high uncertainty avoidance, high future orientation, high institutional collectivism, low in-group collectivism, and low gender egalitarianism practices. However, the comparison of the results of the culture values-based and culture practices-based regression models suggest that cultural values provide a better interpretation for the IDC variance than do cultural practices. A society's IDC can be interpreted in terms of its uncertainty avoidance, institutional collectivism, and gender egalitarianism cultural values. Given its limitations, the findings of this research provide a foundation for the formulation of culturally-oriented policies to enhance IDC at the societal level.

Culture and Knowledge Transfer Capacity

2012 ◽  
pp. 305-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
Omar E. M. Khalil ◽  
Ahmed Seleim
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Gross Domestic Product ◽  
National Culture ◽  
Future Orientation ◽  
Power Distance ◽  
Control Variable ◽  
Uncertainty Avoidance ◽  
Gender Egalitarianism ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Societal Level

Increasing interest exists in understanding the factors that explain knowledge transfer capacity (KTC) at the societal level. In this paper, the authors posit that national culture may explain the differences among countries in their knowledge transfer capacities. The authors adopt House and colleagues’ (2004) national culture taxonomy as the theoretical framework to derive and test eighteen hypotheses relating national culture values and practices to societal KTC. KTC correlates positively with gender egalitarianism values, uncertainty avoidance practices, and future orientation practices. KTC also correlates negatively with uncertainty avoidance values, future orientation values, institutional collectivism values, in-group collectivism values, humane orientation practices, in-group collectivism values and practices, and power distance practices. Further analysis using gross domestic product (GDP) as a control variable revealed that only humane orientation practices influence KTC. The research findings are discussed, research limitations are identified, and implications are drawn.

Culture and Knowledge Transfer Capacity

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 60-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Omar E. M. Khalil ◽  
Ahmed Seleim
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Gross Domestic Product ◽  
National Culture ◽  
Future Orientation ◽  
Power Distance ◽  
Control Variable ◽  
Uncertainty Avoidance ◽  
Gender Egalitarianism ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Societal Level

Increasing interest exists in understanding the factors that explain knowledge transfer capacity (KTC) at the societal level. In this paper, the authors posit that national culture may explain the differences among countries in their knowledge transfer capacities. The authors adopt House and colleagues’ (2004) national culture taxonomy as the theoretical framework to derive and test eighteen hypotheses relating national culture values and practices to societal KTC. KTC correlates positively with gender egalitarianism values, uncertainty avoidance practices, and future orientation practices. KTC also correlates negatively with uncertainty avoidance values, future orientation values, institutional collectivism values, in-group collectivism values, humane orientation practices, in-group collectivism values and practices, and power distance practices. Further analysis using gross domestic product (GDP) as a control variable revealed that only humane orientation practices influence KTC. The research findings are discussed, research limitations are identified, and implications are drawn.

CEO duality and bribery: the roles of gender and national culture

2017 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 218-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristine Velasquez Tuliao ◽  
Chung-wen Chen
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
National Culture ◽  
Hierarchical Linear Modeling ◽  
Future Orientation ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Management Decision ◽  
Ceo Duality ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Impact

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the cross-cultural impact of CEO-Chair’s gender to the likelihood of CEO duality firm’s bribery. Design/methodology/approach Hierarchical linear modeling was used to analyze data of 5,837 CEO duality firms from 21 countries. Findings Firms with male CEO-Chairs were found to have higher propensity to bribe than their female counterparts. Moreover, cultural values of institutional collectivism and performance orientation strengthened gender’s impact to bribery. In contrast, future orientation weakened the gender-bribery relationship, as opposed to the proposed effect. Practical implications Key findings of this study can be utilized to increase awareness and widen perspective on the roles of CEO-Chair’s gender and national culture on bribery. These can also be useful in the selection of CEO-Chair, design of educational programs on ethics as well as government and non-governments’ programs and policies to minimize incidents of bribery. Originality/value There are no existing studies on CEO duality firm’s bribery which performed cross-cultural analysis on the impact of CEO-Chair’s gender, making the study a novel contribution to business ethics, organizational structure, corporate governance, management decision, transparency, and accountability.

INFLUENCE OF CULTURAL PRACTICES ON SOCIAL SUPPORT OF FEMALE ENTREPRENEURS' STARTUPS

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (01) ◽  
pp. 1850007 ◽  
Author(s):  
TIANJIAO QIU
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Hierarchical Linear Modeling ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Future Orientation ◽  
Power Distance ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Uncertainty Avoidance ◽  
Female Entrepreneurs ◽  
Performance Orientation ◽  
Gender Egalitarianism

Social support of female entrepreneurs' startups is critical for the sustainable development of female entrepreneurship in a country. This study empirically tests how nine cultural practices, including performance orientation, uncertainty avoidance, in-group collectivism, power distance, gender egalitarianism, humane orientation, institutional collectivism, future orientation and assertiveness, impact social support of female entrepreneurs' startups across different countries. For the period between 2009 and 2012, sixty-two countries were analyzed using longitudinal data with hierarchical linear modeling techniques. The empirical findings demonstrate three cultural practices (power distance, uncertainty avoidance and future orientation) play major roles in explaining the variation of social support of female entrepreneurs. In contrast, the effects of cultural practices of human orientation, institutional collectivism, in-group collectivism, assertiveness, gender egalitarianism and performance orientation are negligible. Further moderation tests show that a country's macroeconomic environment significantly moderates the relationship between the cultural practice of uncertainty avoidance and social support of female entrepreneurs' startups. The findings provide practical guidance to policymakers on how to develop robust ecosystems with strong cultural practices that enhance social support of female entrepreneurs.

scholarly journals Are Investors’ Attention and Uncertainty Aversion the Risk Factors for Stock Markets? International Evidence from the COVID-19 Crisis

Risks ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 2
Author(s):  
Falik Shear ◽  
Badar Nadeem Ashraf ◽  
Mohsin Sadaqat
Keyword(s):  
Stock Market ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
National Culture ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Uncertainty Avoidance ◽  
Market Returns ◽  
Stock Market Returns ◽  
Search Volume ◽  
Google Search ◽  
The Impact

In this paper, we examine the impact of investors’ attention to COVID-19 on stock market returns and the moderating effect of national culture on this relationship. Using daily data from 34 countries over the period 23 January to 12 June 2020, and measuring investors’ attention with the Google search volume (GSV) of the word “coronavirus” for each country, we find that investors’ enhanced attention to the COVID-19 pandemic results in negative stock market returns. Further, measuring the national culture with the uncertainty avoidance index (the aspect of national culture which measures the cross-country differences in decision-making under stress and ambiguity), we find that the negative impact of investors’ attention on stock market returns is stronger in countries where investors possess higher uncertainty avoidance cultural values. Our findings imply that uncertainty avoidance cultural values of investors promote financial market instability amid the crisis.

National culture and corporate carbon performance

2021 ◽  
pp. 031289622110386
Author(s):  
Le Luo ◽  
Qingliang Tang
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
National Culture ◽  
Future Orientation ◽  
Jel Classification ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
Natural Ecosystems ◽  
Corporate Response ◽  
Gender Egalitarianism ◽  
Carbon Performance

This study investigates the effects of cultural, institutional and natural ecosystems on corporate response to climate change. We find that national cultural tendencies towards future orientation, uncertainty avoidance, gender egalitarianism and humane orientation strengthen corporate performance, whereas certain other cultural dimensions, such as in-group collectivism, pose barriers to optimal carbon performance. We suggest that culture provides an incremental explanation for corporate climate behaviours beyond socioeconomic or regulatory determinants. Our study contributes to the carbon literature by comprehensively examining the role of a country’s national culture in determining corporate carbon performance, and its findings may help in the implementation of international climate accords (such as the Paris Agreement of 2015) in countries with heterogeneous cultural values and natural environmental contexts. JEL Classification: G54, Q56, P48

The important effects of national culture on the environmental proactivity of firms

2016 ◽  
Vol 35 (8) ◽  
pp. 1011-1030 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Calza ◽  
Chiara Cannavale ◽  
Ilaria Tutore
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Behavior ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
National Culture ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Future Orientation ◽  
National Level ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
Linear Regression Models ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Gender Egalitarianism

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to verify if and how national culture affects firms’ environmental proactivity, by using a specific index: the Carbon Disclosure Score (CDS). Design/methodology/approach The study, an analysis of two linear regression models, examines how cultural values, measured by the Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness Research “should be” scores, affect companies’ environmental proactivity measured by CDS. Data about CDS derive from the Carbon Disclosure Project, which monitors Global 500 companies each year. Findings The analysis reveals that the values of in-group collectivism, performance orientation, assertiveness and uncertainty avoidance negatively affect firms’ environmental proactivity, while future orientation and gender egalitarianism have a positive impact. Research limitations/implications In spite of the limitations inherent in the indicator and the limited sample, the paper has some interesting implications. On a theoretical level, this study extends prior research in the field of organizations and natural environment, by examining the specific role exerted by national cultural dimensions on firms’ environmental proactivity. Practical implications From a practical standpoint, the study suggests that corporations and policy regulators should be sensitive toward national idiosyncrasies and formulate the environmental strategies according to the cultural values and contextual environment of the relevant region. Creating policies based on cultural values and adapting policies to a country’s culture can improve the effectiveness of environmental policies and raise individual and corporation awareness on the topic. Originality/value Most contributions consider environmental strategy at the national level. This study, instead, focusses on the effects of national culture on the environmental proactivity of firms.

scholarly journals The Impact of National Culture on Leadership

2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-144
Author(s):  
Nebojša Janićijević
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Styles ◽  
National Culture ◽  
Future Orientation ◽  
Uncertainty Avoidance ◽  
Task Orientation ◽  
Participative Leadership ◽  
Performance Orientation ◽  
People Orientation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
And Task

AbstractThe paper analyses the impact of national culture on leadership and leadership styles. It has been determined that national culture impacts leadership and leadership styles by defining the meanings that both leaders and their followers ascribe to the reality that surrounds them. The analysis includes the impact that the dimensions of national culture, identified in the Geert Hofstede’s and GLOBE’s researches, have on leadership. The paper analyses the impact that the dimensions of national culture have on two main dimensions used to differentiate leadership styles: authoritarianism–participative orientation and task orientation–people orientation. It has been determined that power distance and individualism– collectivism as well as uncertainty avoidance and assertiveness decisively impact the selection between authoritarian and participative leadership styles. The national culture’s “masculinity”–“femininity” dimension, as well as gender equality, performance orientation, people orientation, and future orientation correlated with it, impact the selection between people orientation and task orientation. In certain contexts, high uncertainty avoidance also impacts this leadership dimension. By intertwining two leadership styles’ dimension, four leadership styles are created, as well as cultural contexts in which each of the styles is favoured, preferred, and thereby more effective. Serbian national culture, with its assumptions and values, implies using of authoritarian people-oriented style.

The impact of national cultural values on retail structure

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (6) ◽  
pp. 894-920 ◽  
Author(s):  
Boryana V. Dimitrova ◽  
Bert Rosenbloom ◽  
Trina Larsen Andras
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
National Culture ◽  
Retail Operations ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The World ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
Retail Structure ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between national cultural values and retail structure. Design/methodology/approach The authors use a panel data set of 67 countries over the period 1999-2012. Findings The results demonstrate that national cultural values, measured with the World Values Survey’s traditional/secular-rational and survival/self-expression dimensions, affect retail structure. Research limitations/implications While marketing scholars have examined the relationship between demographic and competitive factors and retail structure, there has been a substantial body of anecdotal evidence showing that national culture can also drive retail structure development. In order to enhance the understanding of the relationship between national culture and retail structure, the authors empirically examine the impact of national cultural values on retail structure. Originality/value This study is the first one to empirically examine the impact of national culture on retail structure. The authors thus help advance retail structure research the primary focus of which has been on investigating the impact of demographic and competitive factors on retail structure. This study is especially relevant to international retail managers who coordinate retail operations in multiple countries around the world. These managers need insight into the impact of national cultural values on retail structure in order to devise effective retail strategies for each host market.

Impact of national culture on organizations’ use of selection practices

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (6) ◽  
pp. 1145-1161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Ryan Prince ◽  
Rüdiger Kabst
Keyword(s):  
National Culture ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Power Distance ◽  
Uncertainty Avoidance ◽  
Psychometric Tests ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Ability Tests ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Panel Interviews ◽  
Selection Practices

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of national culture on organizations’ use of selection practices, specifically to investigate the impact of in-group collectivism, uncertainty avoidance and power distance on interview panels, one-on-one interviews, applications forms, references, ability, technical and psychometric tests. Design/methodology/approach This study uses survey data from the 2008–2010 CRANET database. It uses OLS regression analysis to test the impact of national culture on organizations’ use of selection practices. Findings In-group collectivism increases the use of panel interviews and technical tests, and decreases the use of one-on-one interviews and application forms. Uncertainty avoidance increases the use of panel interviews and technical tests, and a decrease in one-on-one interviews, applications ability, and psychometric tests. Power distance leads to an increase in one-on-one interviews, applications and ability tests, and a decrease in panel interviews, psychometric tests and references. Originality/value This paper investigates the use of the impact of national culture on selection practices. Specifically, it looks at the use of a large number of selection practices panel interviews, one-on-one interviews, applications and references, and several different tests, ability, technical and psychometric.

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