interviews with management-level employees who speak Afrikaans, English and Xhosa as home languages in an attempt to ascertain … roles language and culture play within the South African organisation. Based on the narratives provided by the respondents … in this study, the author concluded that individual culture does play a significant role in the perceptions of …

is not taken to retain the humane ‘ren’ qualities of Confucian culture as the underlying philosophy of this Sino … traditional Confucian culture area, would be well placed to assist in this endeavour. This paper proposes that as China modernises …

, retention, organization, people, incentives, culture, and systems. Findings – This paper concludes that in order to better serve …

Application of contingency frameworks to management accounting research comenced in the mid 1970s and dominated … provide support for an emergent contingency framework for the design of management accounting systems (MAS). This framework …, technology, organizational structure, size, strategy, and organizational culture. Evidence on the effect of these variables …

culture, government, and lack of support would make these standards impossible to implement. Since the globalization of …

, firms in countries with high uncertainty avoidance, as a national culture, hold more cash as a way to hedge against … more cash. At the same time, however, the multinationality of the firm moderates the effects of culture on the firm … multinationality of the firm is positively correlated with holdings of cash. On the other hand, the effect of national culture on firm …

innovation in an individualist culture. This cultural effect may offset the negative effects of bad institutions on growth … individualism on growth through innovation. Using genetic data as instruments for culture we provide strong evidence of a causal … collectivism, in line with recent advances in biology and neuro-science. The effect of culture on long-run growth remains very …