Crossing Borders and/of Cultures

Rongxing Guo ()

Chapter 4 in Cross-Border Management, 2015, pp 75-100 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In his famous essay The Protestant Ethic and the Sprit of Capitalism, Weber (The protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism, 1904) argued that the profit-maximizing behavior so characteristic of the bourgeoisie, which could be explained under fully developed capitalist conditions by its sheer necessity to survival in the face of competition, could not be so explained under the earlier phases of capitalist development. It was the product of an autonomous impulse to accumulate far beyond the needs of personal consumption, an impulse which was historically unique. Weber traced its source to the ‘worldly asceticism’ of reformed Christianity, with its twin imperatives to methodical work as the chief duty of life, and to the limited enjoyment of its product. The unintended consequence of this ethic, which was enforced by the social and psychological pressures on the believer to prove (but not earn) his salvation, was the accumulation of capital for investment.

Keywords: Cultural Diversity; Cultural Group; Culture Area; Protestant Ethic; Ethnic Fractionalization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-45156-4_4

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