Despite the continued popularity of cross national culture research across social sciences, the use of multidimensional …

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. …

the region, we begin with a section on US political culture that shows the distinctions between the regions of the US as … this understanding, we delve more deeply into the political culture of the West as it relates to public policy. Much of …

, culture- specificvalues result in specific consumer behaviour.The aim of our paper is to combine research about buying motives … (generally speaking,consumers' personal values) and about culture- specific consumption patterns.Knowledge of these cohesions is … marketing strategies, which should incorporate culture- specific productcognition.The following aspects of this issue will be …