Social Institutions and Work Centrality: Explorations Beyond National Culture

K. Praveen Parboteeah () and John B. Cullen ()
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K. Praveen Parboteeah: Management Department, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, Wisconsin 53190
John B. Cullen: Department of Management and Decision Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164-4736

Organization Science, 2003, vol. 14, issue 2, 137-148

Abstract: In spite of the popularity of institutional explanations of organizational form, most international management research uses dimensions of national culture to explain cross-national differences in individual work centrality. In this study, we show that social institutions explain variance in work centrality in addition to Hofstede's (2001) dimensions of national culture. Using individual-level data from 30,270 interview respondents from the World Value Survey and institutional data for their 26 countries, we developed hypotheses to investigate whether selected social institutions (i.e., socialism, union strength, educational accessibility, social inequality, and industrialization) affect individual work centrality. We tested our cross-level hypotheses using Hierarchical Linear Modeling. Findings showed that all of the social institutional variables studied predicted lower work centrality.

Keywords: Work Centrality; Social Institutions; National Culture (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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