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Organizational Design and Management Norms: A Comparative Study of Managers' Perceptions in the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong, and Canada
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In this paper, the authors survey 155 executives from the People's Republic of China (PRC), Hong Kong, and Canada to investigate whether norms for organizational design and management are subject to a process of globalization.About:
This article is published in Journal of Management.The article was published on 1990-12-01. It has received 74 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Organizational commitment & Organization development.read more
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Individual Values in Organizations: Concepts, Controversies, and Research
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss how values have been defined and conceptualized, and describe how they affect individuals in organizations and discuss some of the salient controversies that characterize contemporary research on values.
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A Cross-Cultural Cognitive Model of New Venture Creation:
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the global landscape and find that some cultures produce many more entrepreneurs than others, and they take a cognitive perspective because it is assumed that cultures tend to produce more entrepreneurs.
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Management information systems in the Chinese business culture: an explanatory theory
TL;DR: The explanatory theory suggests that the use of MIS in the Chinese business culture has been, and will continue to be, shaped by factors such as paternalism, personalism and high context communications.
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Analyzing Cross-National Management and Organizations: A Theoretical Framework
TL;DR: In this paper, the importance of congruent or, at least, accommodative relationships between the core values dominating the local setting, and those underlying transferred practices for the effectiveness of "imported" organizational practices is discussed.
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Management Style and Productivity in Two Cultures
Tom Morris,Cynthia M. Pavett +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, productivity and management style differences in a Mexican maquiladora operation and its U.S. parent plant Likert's System 4 Theory was used as the theoretical basis of comparison.
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Culture′s Consequences: International Differences in Work-Related Values
TL;DR: In his book Culture's Consequences, Geert Hofstede proposed four dimensions on which the differences among national cultures can be understood: Individualism, Power Distance, Uncertainty Avoidance and Masculinity as mentioned in this paper.
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Culture in action: symbols and strategies*
TL;DR: For example, the authors argues that culture influences action not by providing the ultimate values toward which action is oriented, but by shaping a repertoire or "tool kit" of habits, skills, and styles from which people construct "strategies of action."
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Clustering Countries on Attitudinal Dimensions: A Review and Synthesis
Simcha Ronen,Oded Shenkar +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, eight empirical studies using attitudinal data to cluster countries are reviewed and the major dimensions accounting for similarities among countries are discussed, and a final synthesis of clusters is presented.
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Cultural dimensions in management and planning
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the scope of (work-related) cultural differences as they were revealed by research in more than 50 countries around the world and discuss how these differences affect the validity of management techniques and philosophies in various countries within the functioning and meaning of planning.