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TY - JOUR
T1 - Going beyond national cultures
T2 - dynamic interaction between national, regional, and organizational realities
AU - Sasaki, Innan
AU - Yoshikawa, Katsuhiko
PY - 2014/7
Y1 - 2014/7
N2 - Cultural studies in international business have focused intensively on country-level analyses and have been criticized for their limited efforts to conceptualize and measure much richer, more dynamic and multi-level cultures. Drawing on literature from economic geography, we propose a new perspective that takes intra-national regional culture as the unit of analysis. Combining this perspective with acculturation theory and the concepts of cultural strength and embeddedness, we develop a conceptual model to analyze dynamic interaction between intra-national regional cultures and organizational cultures and propositions on how such interactions affect firm performance. Implications for future research and business practice are presented.
AB - Cultural studies in international business have focused intensively on country-level analyses and have been criticized for their limited efforts to conceptualize and measure much richer, more dynamic and multi-level cultures. Drawing on literature from economic geography, we propose a new perspective that takes intra-national regional culture as the unit of analysis. Combining this perspective with acculturation theory and the concepts of cultural strength and embeddedness, we develop a conceptual model to analyze dynamic interaction between intra-national regional cultures and organizational cultures and propositions on how such interactions affect firm performance. Implications for future research and business practice are presented.
KW - Acculturation
KW - Culture change
KW - Embeddedness
KW - Intra-national regional culture
KW - Organizational culture
KW - Strength of culture
U2 - 10.1016/j.jwb.2013.10.005
DO - 10.1016/j.jwb.2013.10.005
M3 - Journal article
VL - 49
SP - 455
EP - 464
JO - Journal of World Business
JF - Journal of World Business
SN - 1090-9516
IS - 3
ER -