This paper examines the relationship between cultural values, political institutions and government regulation of entry. For this, it couples data for 53 countries from a variety of sources in comparative political economy and cross-cultural psychology. A society's general attitude towards risk...

This research enters new ground by presenting comparative survey evidence on assetmanagers' views and behavior in the United States, Germany, Japan and Thailand.Relying on Hofstede's four cultural dimensions, we find that cultural differencesare most helpful in understanding country differences...

Does evolutionary theory help, for a theory of the firm, or, more widely, a theory oforganization? In this paper I argue that it does, to some but also limited extent.Evolutionary theories of economies, and of culture, have acquired considerablefollowing, but have also been subject to...

We present results from the rst large-scale international surveyon time discounting, conducted in 45 countries. Cross-country varia-tion cannot simply be explained by economic variables such as interestor ination rates. In particular, we nd strong evidence for culturaldierences, as measured by...

Die vorliegende Dissertation befasst sich mit kulturellen Unterschieden von Umweltmanagementsystemen (UMS) in Deutschland, Grossbritannien und Schweden. Unter Verwendung des Kulturdimensionen-Konzepts von Geert Hofstede werden mögliche Felder kultureller Unterschiede von...

This paper describes the concept of Safety Culture and its measurement regarding aviation.

This paper deals with culture, CRM and aviation safety. Futhermore it discusses methods to enhance operational safety performance in organisations.

This exploratory paper investigates why some companies appear to find successful business relationshipsrelatively effortless. It seems that the organisation’s search for and utilisation of key resources canguarantee its success in the market place. The paper incorporates a critique of...

The quality of British entrepreneurship in the half century before 1914 excitescontroversy. Contemporaries were of mixed minds about the matter. Alfred Marshall(1920: 92-106), for example, was uneasy about the competitive inroads entrepreneursfrom other advanced industrial countries had made...

The presence of classical architectural features in modernWestern architecture shows that knowledge from ancient timeswas travelling through both space and time. Yet despite surfacesimilarities, the architecture of revival was very different to that ofantiquity. The classicistic architecture of...