Culture and regional innovation performance: an exploration in China
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between culture and regional innovation performance in China where innovation is deemed as a key for sustainable economic development. The diversity of China’s regional culture and its rising economic and innovative capability enhancement provides an opportunity for such an exploration. Design/methodology/approach: This paper adopts the GLOBE’s nine cultural dimensions to empirically examine the relationship between culture and Chinese regional innovation performance through multiple regression analysis. Findings: The study results find that performance orientation and gender egalitarianism have positive and significant influences on regional innovation performance, while institutional collectivism has a negative and significant influence. The remaining six GLOBE cultural dimensions show no significant effect on regional innovation performance. Originality/value: To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first research exploring the relationship between culture and regional innovation performance in a Chinese context by using GLOBE’s cultural dimensions that are deemed as a valuable empirical alternative to Hofstede’s cultural measures. The results of this study help further the understanding of the cultural influence in China’s regional innovation performance.
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2019
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Authors: | Song, Hemin ; Zhang-Zhang, Yingying ; Tian, Mu ; Rohlfer, Sylvia ; Sharkasi, Nora |
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Chinese Management Studies. - Emerald, ISSN 1750-614X, ZDB-ID 2280185-6. - Vol. 13.2019, 2 (03.06.), p. 397-420
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Emerald |
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