Cross Cultural & Strategic Management: Volume 24 Issue 4

A critical analysis of cultural metaphors and static cultural frameworks with insight from cultural neuroscience and evolutionary biology

Mai Nguyen-Phuong-Mai

The purpose of this paper is to conduct a critical analysis to address cultural metaphors – a much overlooked aspect of cross-cultural studies. Mainstream cultural metaphors (e.g…

Parachuting internationalization: a study of four Scandinavian firms entering China

Tony Fang, Rosalie L. Tung, Linda Berg, Nazanin Nematshahi

The purpose of this paper is to propose a “parachuting internationalization” metaphor as an alternative strategy that firms may choose to enter foreign markets compared to Uppsala…

The cultural dividend: a hidden source of economic growth in emerging countries

Shaomin Li, Seung Ho Park, David Duden Selover

The purpose of this paper is to develop the theoretical linkage between culture and economic growth and empirically test the relationship by measuring culture and how it affects…

Comparability of leadership constructs from the Malaysian and Pakistani perspectives

Ghulam Hussain, Wan Khairuzzaman Wan Ismail, Muzhar Javed

The purpose of this paper is to compare the applicability of transformational leadership and substitutes-for-leadership theories in Malaysia’s and Pakistan’s work settings.

An exploratory study into organizational repatriates’ emotional support network

Lore Van Gorp, Smaranda Boroş, Piet Bracke, Peter A.J. Stevens

The purpose of this paper is to examine how repatriates’ emotional support network affects their experience of re-entry.

Watch his deed or examine his words? Exploring the potential of the behavioral experiment method for collecting data to measure culture

Ryan W. Tang

To address three issues of survey-based methods (i.e. the absence of behaviors, the reference inequivalence, and the lack of cross-cultural interaction), the purpose of this paper…