...Ahmed Al Mubarak; Evangelos Giouvris Purpose Our purpose is to explore how culture’s impact on investment is depending on uncertainty levels. Design/methodology/approach This study investigates the interplay between national culture, uncertainty, and corporate investment decisions. Focusing...

...Marcelo Pereira Duarte; Fernando Manuel P.O. Carvalho Purpose This study analyses configurations of national culture as boundary conditions of countries’ national systems of innovation (NSI). Drawing from the NSI approach, we argue that culture’s role is that of a contingency factor shaping...

...Liming Zhang; Yuxin Yi; Guichuan Zhou Purpose This paper presents a meta-analysis of the electronic banking (e-banking) customer loyalty literature in the last 10 years. The study investigated the moderating role of national culture in the relationship between e-banking customer loyalty and its...

...Shihanah Almutairi; Michael Heller; Dorothy Yen Purpose This paper addresses the clustering of several Arab states on Hofstede's national culture dimensions and its implications for international firms targeting the Middle East and North African (MENA) region. It is imperative to distinguish...

...Lucas Reisch Purpose This study examines, in a European context, whether a management-induced International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) accounting strategy is affected by national culture. It analyses the association between management's accounting strategy and Hofstede's cultural...

...Mohammad Zainuddin; Masnun Mahi; Shabiha Akter; Ida Md. Yasin Purpose This study investigates the role of national culture between outreach and sustainability of microfinance institutions (MFIs). Despite microfinance's deep embeddedness in cultural contexts, research on the influence of national...

... Uncertainty avoidance National culture Acquisitions Risk-taking behaviour Long-term investments The national culture dimensions proposed by Hofstede (1980) and GLOBE project (House et al., 2004) have attracted great deal of the attention of international business and management scholars...

...Bernhard Swoboda; Nadine Batton Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a theoretical and empirical comparison of four major national cultural value models for perceived corporate reputation (CR) of multinational corporations (MNCs) across nations: Hofstede, Schwartz, the GLOBE study...

...’ perceptions of HRMPs and support from supervisors enhance well-being, taking into account the national cultural context of organisations. Design/methodology/approach Linear regression models tested the proposed hypotheses on a sample of 10,866 employees from 18 European countries who participated...

... as consisting of firm-level social contexts and national culture, and propose that: heterogeneous social contexts in family firm management, i.e. family CEO and multigenerational involvement, give rise to mindsets that have differential effects on renewal efforts and that the proposed effects are subject...

... leaders (from 36 different countries and more than 4,000 companies). This study includes performance ratings from each leader’s supervisor as well as perceptual measures of diversity beliefs from their direct reports and a measure of national culture as a moderator. Findings The research finds...

...Michael Minkov; Pinaki Dutt; Michael Schachner; Oswaldo Morales; Carlos Sanchez; Janar Jandosova; Yerlan Khassenbekov; Ben Mudd Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an updated and authoritative measure of individualism vs collectivism (IDV-COLL) as a dimension of national culture...

.... Practical implications The study advances understanding of how national culture promotes socially and environmentally responsible behavior. The implementation of CSR strategies depends on cultural norms, so companies need to be sensitive to local demands and adjust their CSR approaches accordingly...

... for the dimensions of culture that are found in cross-cultural studies. Of these, Hofstede’s model of national culture, with extensions by Bond and Minkov, has the best track record in explaining nation-level phenomena to date; so I will stick to this model. Its dimensions are about things such as the autonomy...