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The volatility of survey measures of culture and its consequences
Zanella, Giulio; Bellani, Marina M. - 2019
Common measures of cultural attitudes, such as those constructed from the World Values Survey, are characterized by substantial within-country volatility. This volatility is at odds with the notion of culture adopted in economics: a set of slow-moving traits that determine preferences and...
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Corporate Culture, Societal Culture, and Institutions
Guiso, Luigi - 2015
While both cultural and legal norms (institutions) help foster cooperation, culture is the more primitive of the two and itself sustains formal institutions. Cultural changes are rarer and slower than changes in legal institutions, which makes it difficult to identify the role played by culture....
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Herding, warfare, and a culture of honor: global evidence
Cao, Yiming; Enke, Benjamin; Falk, Armin; Giuliano, Paola; … - 2021
According to the widely known 'culture of honor' hypothesis from social psychology, traditional herding practices are believed to have generated a value system that is conducive to revenge-taking and violence. We test this idea at a global scale using a combination of ethnographic records,...
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The happy cultural omnivore? : exploring the relationship between cultural consumption patterns and subjective well-being
Bertacchini, Enrico; Bolognesi, Valentina; Venturini, … - 2021
This paper proposes a novel approach to explore the relationship between cultural participation and subjective well-being. While most empirical research has considered such a connection using cultural and leisure activities individually or in additive terms, drawing from the sociological...
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Expanding the measurement of culture with a sample of two billion humans
Obradovich, Nick; Özak, Ömer; Ortuño-Ortín, Ignacio; … - 2020
Culture has played a pivotal role in human evolution. Yet, the ability of social scientists to study culture is limited by the currently available measurement instruments. Scholars of culture must regularly choose between scalable but sparse survey-based methods or restricted but rich...
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Firms' global engagement and management practices
Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife - 2017
related to the change in their management performance. Using new and unique data from a recent large scale firm survey of … management practices in Germany, we calculate management scores for firms as in Bloom et al. (2013). These indicate how … structured management is in a given firm. We find that switching into exporting, and to a lesser degree opening up affiliates …
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Social evolution, corporate culture, and exploitation
Schlicht, Ekkehart - 2002
management instrument shape the self-perception of management and engender true, rather than faked, social exchange. The market …
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The survival of unique corporate cultures
Epstein, Gil S.; Lindner Pomerantz, Renana - 2016
In this paper we identify two situations that can lead a firm to hire an executive who supports a corporate culture that differs from the firm's current culture. In the first case, there is similarity between the firm's culture and that of the candidate and in the second case, executives who...
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Business culture : the role of personal and impersonal business relationships on market efficiency
Muñoz-Herrera, Manuel; Reuben, Ernesto - 2019
In this paper, we study the effects of business culture on market efficiency. We exogenously vary the type of business culture between business-is-business cultures, which consist on impersonal relationships where financial matters are paramount, and business-is-family cultures, which comprise...
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Community norms and organizational practices : the legitimization of wage arrears in Russia, 1992 - 1999
Earle, John S. (contributor); Spicer, Andrew (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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