Cross Cultural & Strategic Management: Volume 28 Issue 1

Editorial: Competitive productivity (CP): advancing the competitiveness paradigm

Chris Baumann, Michael Cherry, Wujin Chu, Lorne Cummings, Doris Viengkham, Hume Winzar

Competitive productivity and the challenge of metastasis under rising societal complexity

Gordon Redding

The purpose of this paper is to locate the concept of competitive productivity (CP) within a general theory of societal progress and include new thinking on the challenge of…

The concept of competitive productivity (CP): a linguistic investigation

Susan Hoadley

The paper presents an investigation into the validity and robustness of the concept of competitive productivity (CP) using linguistic analysis and theory to explore the…

Culture, productivity and competitiveness: disentangling the concepts

Stephen Chen, Nidthida Lin

Culture has been identified as one of the main drivers of the “competitive productivity” (CP) of nations. However, research studies examining the relationships between culture…

Competitive productivity in South African public–private partnerships

Daniella Fjellstrom, Paul Frick

This study aims to develop the concept of competitive productivity focussing on the interplay between national competitive productivity (NCP) and firm competitive productivity…

Why competitive productivity sometimes goes too far: a multilevel evolutionary model of “karoshi”

Andrew R. Timming

The aim of this paper is to outline an innovative multilevel conceptual model capable of explaining “karoshi” (death from overwork) and its relationship to molecular-, micro-…

An international market segmentation model based on susceptibility to global consumer culture

Martin Hernani-Merino, Juan G. Lazo Lazo, Alvaro Talavera López, José Afonso Mazzon, Gisella López-Tafur

Companies that wish to market a global brand need to develop a greater understanding of consumers' and potential consumers' susceptibility to global consumer culture (SGCC) with a…

Does national culture influence management's accounting behaviour and strategy? – an empirical analysis of European IFRS adopters

Lucas Reisch

This study examines, in a European context, whether a management-induced International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) accounting strategy is affected by national culture. It…

Reclaiming the heterogeneity of the Arab states

Shihanah Almutairi, Michael Heller, Dorothy Yen

This paper addresses the clustering of several Arab states on Hofstede's national culture dimensions and its implications for international firms targeting the Middle East and…

Birds of a feather flock together: ownership in cross-border acquisitions by emerging multinationals

Beatriz Domínguez, Lucio Fuentelsaz, Elisabet Garrido, Minerva González

Despite prior studies on cross-border acquisitions (CBAs) have analyzed the determinants of ownership strategies; there is still a quest for evidence on how the differences…

Invention commercialization among Russian scientists: bridging the gap between ideational and material realms

Turkhan Sadigov

The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, the article explores an understudied side of invention commercialization–the rejection of business as something “dirty” among Russian…