Going beyond national cultures – Dynamic interaction between intra-national, regional, and organizational realities

Innan Sasaki and Katsuhiko Yoshikawa

Journal of World Business, 2014, vol. 49, issue 3, 455-464

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Acculturation; Culture change; Embeddedness; Intra-national regional culture; Organizational culture; Strength of culture (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jwb.2013.10.005

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