Culture plays an increasingly important role in supply chain management as many manufacturing firms have linkages to suppliers and customers from various countries. In this paper we propose treating culture as an explanatory variable to test the assumption that existing theories are universally...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to test the validity of national culture as an explanatory construct for international operations management decision‐making. Design/methodology/approach – National culture is multi‐dimensional thereby allowing for much finer grained comparisons...