National Culture Practices and Societal Information Dissemination Capacity

Omar E. M. Khalil () and Ahmed Seleim ()
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Omar E. M. Khalil: Kuwait University, Kuwait
Ahmed Seleim: Alexandria University, Egypt

Journal of Information & Knowledge Management (JIKM), 2010, vol. 09, issue 02, 127-144

Abstract: Societies exhibit varying capacities for information dissemination. This research explores the impact of national culture practices on information dissemination capacity (IDC) at the societal level. Nine hypotheses were formulated and tested. Countries with high information dissemination capacities were found to have a pattern of high uncertainty avoidance, high future orientation, high institutional collectivism, low in-group collectivism, and low gender egalitarianism practices. However, the comparison of the results of the culture values-based and culture practices-based regression models suggest that cultural values provide a better interpretation for the IDC variance than do cultural practices. A society's IDC can be interpreted in terms of its uncertainty avoidance, institutional collectivism, and gender egalitarianism cultural values. Given its limitations, the findings of this research provide a foundation for the formulation of culturally-oriented policies to enhance IDC at the societal level.

Keywords: Information dissemination capacity (IDC); information technology (IT); national culture; culture values; culture practices; power distance; uncertainty avoidance; future orientation; humane orientation; performance orientation; institutional collectivism; in-group collectivism; gender egalitarianism; and assertiveness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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