The need for a more sustainable lifestyle is a key focus for several countries. Using a questionnaire survey conducted in Hungary, this paper examines how culture influences environmentally conscious behaviour. Having investigated the direct impact of Hofstede's cultural dimensions on...

Does the cultural background influence the success with which genetically unrelated individuals cooperate in social dilemma situations? In this paper we provide an answer by analyzing the data of Herrmann et al. (Science 2008, pp. 1362-1367), who study cooperation and punishment in sixteen...

Results from cultural evolutionary theory often suggest that social learning can lead cultural groups to differ markedly in the same environment. Put differently, cultural evolutionary processes can in principle stabilise behavioural differences between groups, which in turn could lead selection...

I investigate how students from different cultures form risk-sharing networks when they come to study at university, and how these network structures affect risk attitudes in different contexts. Using an online survey, I find that students from collectivist cultures such as China form larger...

We assess the organizational culture in the finance industry in relation to the global financial crisis (GFC) and consider the potential of cultural change to improve the financial sector. To avoid (response) biases, we build on the person-organization (P-O) fit literature and develop a novel,...

Mediation as a ‘preemptive discipline’ is introduced with relevant theories and research, including from psychology and business studies.The paper is contemporary descriptive using a conflict that is very present in modern discussion: The sustainability of nature in contrasted with business...

Aim: The paper aims to illustrate the importance of organizational culture in supporting security in an organization, on the example of a non-public higher education institution in Poland during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Organization. Design/ Research methods: The case study is...

This paper explores the dynamics of nation-building policies and the conditions under which a state can promote a shared national identity on its territory. A forward-looking central government that internalizes identity dynamics shapes them by choosing the level of state centralization....

This paper examines the relationship between organizational form and the potential for corruption in two polar opposite cultural settings. We build a theoretical model of a licensing bureaucracy consisting of honest and dishonest officials, and study two types of corruption - collusion, where...

Recent work on Cohn et al. (2019) shows that civic honesty captured in a wallet-return experiment varies considerably across the world. This paper uses the new experiment to validate the alternative way of measuring trust and honesty from questionnaires. Comparisons of wallet return rates and...