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Standardization preferences: a function of national culture, work interdependence and local embeddedness
William Newburry,Nevena Yakova +1 more
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This paper found that employees from high power distance, high uncertainty avoidance, and high context cultures prefer greater standardization, whereas those from high individualism cultures prefer less standardization and that work interdependence is positively associated with standardization preferences.Abstract:
Both theoretical and empirical studies of professional service employee standardization preferences are relatively scarce. Using responses from 398 employees of an international public relations firm, this study finds that employees from high power distance, high uncertainty avoidance and high-context cultures prefer greater standardization, whereas employees from high individualism cultures prefer less standardization. Additionally, work interdependence is positively associated with standardization preferences, whereas local embeddedness is negatively associated with standardization preferences.read more
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The iron cage revisited: Institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields (Chinese Translation)
Paul DiMaggio,Walter W. Powell +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that rational actors make their organizations increasingly similar as they try to change them, and describe three isomorphic processes-coercive, mimetic, and normative.
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Comparative International Entrepreneurship A Review and Research Agenda
TL;DR: A systematic review of comparative international entrepreneurship (CIE) research is presented in this paper, highlighting the importance of multi-country studies of entrepreneurial activity in enabling the comparison and replication of research and generating meaningful contributions to scholarship, practice, and policy.
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The Interrelationships among Informal Institutions, Formal Institutions, and Inward Foreign Direct Investment
TL;DR: In this article, the influence of informal institutions on formal institutions and the effects of formal institutions on inward foreign direct investment was examined by integrating prior research from multiple disciplines to identify and examine the roles of a country's formal regulatory, political, and economic institutions.
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Coping flexibility and psychological adjustment to stressful life changes: A meta-analytic review.
TL;DR: This meta-analysis is the first to provide a summary estimate of the overall effect size and investigate cross-study sources of variation in the beneficial role of coping flexibility and propose a synthesized conceptualization of cope flexibility.
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Improving national cultural indices using a longitudinal meta-analysis of Hofstede's dimensions
TL;DR: The meta-analytic set of national cultural scores along the dimensions of Hofstede's cultural framework is presented in this article, which is based on a larger and more representative sample than that used in any other cross-cultural comparison study.
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The iron cage revisited institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields
Paul DiMaggio,Walter W. Powell +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that rational actors make their organizations increasingly similar as they try to change them, and describe three isomorphic processes-coercive, mimetic, and normative.
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Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness
TL;DR: In this article, the extent to which economic action is embedded in structures of social relations, in modern industrial society, is examined, and it is argued that reformist economists who attempt to bring social structure back in do so in the "oversocialized" way criticized by Dennis Wrong.
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Organizational Culture and Leadership
TL;DR: A review of the book "Organizational Culture and Leadership" by Edgar H. Schein is given in this article, where the authors present a review of their approach to organizational culture and leadership.
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The rise of the network society
TL;DR: The Rise of the Network Society as discussed by the authors is an account of the economic and social dynamics of the new age of information, which is based on research in the USA, Asia, Latin America, and Europe, it aims to formulate a systematic theory of the information society which takes account of fundamental effects of information technology on the contemporary world.