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The importance of cultural differences in international business
Adamczyk, Marzena - In: The Central European Review of Economics and Management … 1 (2017) 2, pp. 151-170
market should diagnose the culture of the country with which they will enter into business relationships and they should …
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Are the Japanese unique? Evidence from household saving and bequest behavior
Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2016
by culture and social norms by examining their saving and bequest behavior. To summarize our main findings, we find that … the Japanese are not a saving-loving people and that their saving behavior is not governed by culture and social norms …, we argue that these findings do not necessarily mean that culture and social norms do not matter. …
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The entrepreneurial culture: guiding principles of the self-employed
Noseleit, Florian - 2008
What makes entrepreneurs different? Using a cross-country dataset, this paper explores essential parts of the value system of entrepreneurs in Western European countries by comparing value items of the self-employed to that of the non-self-employed. The self-employed rate values higher that aim...
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The scope of cooperation: values and incentives
Tabellini, Guido - 2008
What explains the range of situations in which individuals cooperate? This paper studies a model where individuals respond to incentives but are also influenced by norms of good conduct inherited from earlier generations. Parents rationally choose what values to transmit to their offspring, and...
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Immigrants' tolerance and integration into society
Berggren, Niclas; Ljunge, Martin; Nilsson, Therese - 2022
We highlight a new factor behind integration: tolerance in the immigrants' background culture. We hypothesize that it … is easier to partake of economic, civic-political, and social life in a new country for a person stemming from a culture … from the European Social Survey. The results indicate that tolerance in the background culture is a robust predictor of …
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Intolerance predicts climate skepticism
Johansson, Alva; Berggren, Niclas; Nilsson, Therese - 2021
While there is almost unanimous consent among scientists that climate change is real and has detrimental consequences, there is a sizable number of people who are skeptical towards these propositions and who are not worried by climate change. In an attempt to understand the basis of climate...
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Shareholders and Stakeholders around the World: The Role of Values, Culture, and Law in Directors' Decisions
Licht, Amir N.; Adams, Renee B. - 2020
We present evidence on the way personal and institutional factors could together guide public company directors in decision-making concerning shareholders and stakeholders. In a sample comprising more than nine hundred directors originating from over fifty countries and serving in firms from...
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Religion and Innovation
Benabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - 2015
In earlier work (Bénabou, Ticchi and Vindigni 2013) we uncovered a robust negative association between religiosity and patents per capita, holding across countries as well as US states, with and without controls. In this paper we turn to the individual level, examining the relationship between...
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On the origins of gender roles: Women and the plough
Alesina, Alberto; Giuliano, Paola; Nunn, Nathan - 2011
This paper seeks to better understand the historical origins of current differences in norms and beliefs about the appropriate role of women in society. We test the hypothesis that traditional agricultural practices influenced the historical gender division of labor and the evolution and...
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Reconciling the individual and societal level in comparative cultural analysis: An archetypal analysis of values and norms across 76 countries
de Wit, Juliette; Beugelsdijk, Sjoerd - 2024
Despite the continued popularity of cross national culture research across social sciences, the use of multidimensional …
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