Purpose – This paper aims to explore how cultural forces and historical events interact to form a country's organizing principles. Design/methodology/approach – Culture influences management in significant ways. In order to understand true influences of culture on a country's economy and...

Firms face a great deal of uncertainty in developing new technology. This uncertainty poses much more serious problems when development projects are new to firms and there are few historical data applicable to the development process in point. Examines operations‐improvement processes in two...