International Business and National Culture: A Literature Review and Research Agenda

López-Duarte, Cristina; Vidal-Suárez, Marta M.; González-Díaz, Belén

doi:10.1111/ijmr.12070

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“…This omission may perhaps explain some of the mixed results reported. Our findings highlight the relevance of contextual variables, which lends support to a similar review on culture in international business (López-Duarte, Vidal-Suárez, and González-Díaz 2016). We therefore urge future studies to investigate the interplay between national culture and contextual variables.…”

Section: Interplay Of National Culture and Contextual Variablessupporting

confidence: 84%

National culture and operations management: a structured literature review

Boscari

Bortolotti

Netland

et al. 2018

International Journal of Production Research

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National culture has received a substantial amount of interest in the operations management literature. We present the first structured review of articles studying national culture in operations management. Our search returned 51 papers published in ten leading journals between 2000 and 2017. We sort and analyse the papers according to three focus areas of operations management (strategy, execution and improvement). We also analyse the papers according to whether they address the relevance of national culture, the impact of national culture or the actions managers can use to manage or mitigate the effects of national culture. We find that national culture appears as a relevant variable in all focus areas of operations management research but that the direction and strength of its impact remain undetermined. Only a handful of papers address how managers can actively deal with challenges related to national culture. We propose a research agenda and a guiding framework for future research.

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Section: Interplay Of National Culture and Contextual Variablessupporting

confidence: 84%

National culture and operations management: a structured literature review

Boscari

Bortolotti

Netland

et al. 2018

International Journal of Production Research

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“…Cultural differences may be a significant hindrance in terms of realizing the benefits of a global sourcing strategy (Kotabe and Mudambi ), and cultural distance may be a major barrier to the development of buyer–seller relationships (Lopez‐Duarte et al . ). There is a need for more research on individual African countries, given that cultural aspects vary depending on language, religion and the influence of former European colonial hosts, for instance.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…Indeed, concerns about the validity of theoretical approaches developed from a different (mainly western) perspective go hand in hand with calls for more research in new contexts such as Africa (Karjalainen and Salmi ; Lopez‐Duarte et al . ).…”

Section: African Continent As a Sourcing Context – Different From Othmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…As a continent, Africa is an under‐researched area, specifically in the fields of international business (Lopez‐Duarte et al . ) and corporate social responsibility (CSR): it is ‘much less well researched than other regions’ (Kolk and Lenfant , p. 241) and ‘a broadening of the empirical base, particularly to Africa, seems necessary’ (Kolk et al . , p. 360).…”

Section: African Continent As a Sourcing Context – Different From Othmentioning

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Sourcing from Africa: A Systematic Review and a Research Agenda

Kauppi

Salmi

You

2017

Int J Management Reviews

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The African continent is rapidly growing its global economic impact and becoming a more attractive sourcing context. However, very little is known about current purchasing practices, successes and challenges on this continent. The authors investigate the specific features that characterize supply management in Africa by conducting a systematic review of the literature on sourcing in and from Africa. Their aim is to help scholars direct their future research efforts. The authors take a thematic approach in their analysis of 57 articles, and identify key findings, research challenges and opportunities. They focus on four areas previously identified as distinguishing the sourcing context in Africa: African culture and ethics; the role of African countries and suppliers in global value chains; an increasing emphasis on sustainability; and the gradual development of professional procurement practices. It is found that research in the area of supply management in the African context is still scattered, with an evident need for more theoretically rich and methodologically rigorous inquiry. The authors propose a structured, theoretically grounded research agenda for each of the themes identified, and make general observations on potential future directions.

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“…Further, the use of the KSI to measure (cultural) distance continues to increase (Harzing and Pudelko 2016) (see Fig. 1) despite repeated criticism levelled at the relevance of and the assumptions underlying the concept of cultural distance as such and/or the nature of the KSI to measure cultural and other types of distance (e.g., Berry et al 2010;Harzing and Pudelko 2016;López-Duarte et al 2016;Shenkar 2001;Tung and Verbeke 2010). Within the former group, scholars have questioned the implicit assumption of cultural distance being an absolute and symmetrical construct, as opposed to a relative and asymmetrical construct.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Why We Should Stop Using the Kogut and Singh Index

Konara

Mohr

2019

Manag Int Rev

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The Kogut and Singh (J Int Bus Stud 19(3):411-432, 1988) index is the most widely used construct to measure cultural distance in international business and management research. We show that this index is incorrectly specified and captures the squared cultural distance. This inaccuracy is problematic because it means that the empirical findings on the effects of cultural distance presented in different strands of international business research are likely to be misleading. We specify the correct form of the distance measure based on the Euclidean distance formula and demonstrate the implications of using the incorrectly specified Kogut and Singh (1988) index.

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International Business and National Culture: A Literature Review and Research Agenda

Cited by 76 publications

References 89 publications

National culture and operations management: a structured literature review

National culture and operations management: a structured literature review

Sourcing from Africa: A Systematic Review and a Research Agenda

Why We Should Stop Using the Kogut and Singh Index

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