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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
business, management and accounting
Individualism-collectivism and business context as predictors of behaviors in cross-national work settings: Incidence and outcomes
International Journal of Intercultural Relations, Volume 35, No. 4, Year 2011
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Description
Brief descriptions of cross-national problem events by 1349 organizational employees from many nations were content analyzed. Contrasts between individualistic and collectivistic behaviors were much more strongly predicted by variations in business context (e.g., language spoken and hierarchical relations between the parties involved) than by a measure of nation-level in-group collectivism practices. Respondents from individualist nations emphasized performance goals and task focus, whereas those from collectivist nations emphasized personal aspects of work relations more strongly. Task-focused behavioral responses to problems were uniformly associated with positive outcome, whereas the outcome of emotional responses interacted significantly with individualism-collectivism practices. The results are interpreted in terms of collectivists' greater attention to context. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd.
Authors & Co-Authors
Smith, Peter Bevington
United Kingdom, Brighton
University of Sussex
Torres, Cláudio Vaz Vaz
Brazil, Brasilia
Universidade de Brasília
Hecker, Julia
United Kingdom, Milton Keynes
The Open University
Chua, Chei Hwee
United States, Coral Gables
University of Miami
Chudzikova, Alena
Slovakia, Bratislava
Centre for the Research of Ethnicity and Culture
Degirmencioglu, Serdar
Turkey, Istanbul
İstanbul Arel Üniversitesi
Donoso-Maluf, Francisco
Chile, La Serena
Universidad de la Serena
Feng, Nancy Chen Yi
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Lingnan University, Hong Kong
Harb, Charles
Lebanon, Beirut
American University of Beirut
Jackson, Brad
New Zealand, Auckland
The University of Auckland
Malvezzi, Sigmar
Brazil, Rio de Janeiro
Fundacao Getulio Vargas
Mogaji, Andrew A.
Nigeria, Makurdi
Benue State University
Pastor, Juan Carlos Barrón
Unknown Affiliation
Perez-Floriano, Lorena R.
Mexico, Nogales
Colegio de la Frontera Norte
Srivastava, B. N.
India, Kolkata
Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
Stahl, Günter
Austria, Vienna
Wu Vienna University of Economics and Business
Thomason, Stephanie J.
Belarus
University of Tampa
Yanchuk, Vladimir
Belarus, Minsk
National Academy of Sciences of Belarus
Statistics
Citations: 18
Authors: 18
Affiliations: 17
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1016/j.ijintrel.2011.02.001
ISSN:
01471767
Study Design
Cohort Study