National culture as a correlate of research impact and productivity

Abraham, Juneman

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“…National culture is closely related to research output and impact. Abraham (2019) noticed that power distance (i.e. culture's positive tendency to power inequalities between people) is negatively correlated with the impact of study; individualism (a community's level of individuality within its people) is positively correlated with research performance and research impact; indulgence (the degree to which members of society do not attempt to regulate their desires) and uncertainty avoidance (how that a society faces uncontrollable future) has a negative correlation with research impact.…”

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Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on researcher collaboration in business and economics areas on national level: a scientometric analysis

Damaševičius

Zailskaitė-Jakštė

2022

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PurposeThe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has greatly impacted society and academic life and research practices. This study is an attempt to comprehend whether a global emergency of COVID-19 pandemic has an impact on researcher international collaboration. The authors analyze the research collaboration before and after the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic to understand how scientists collaborated within their own nation's borders and beyond.Design/methodology/approachThe authors analyze the research collaboration before and after the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic to understand how scientists collaborated within their own nation's borders and beyond. The authors collected a dataset of research publications published in journals in the research area of business and economics and indexed in the WoS Core Collection database by researchers from 11 countries (Austria, Denmark, Greece, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Korea (South), Mexico, Pakistan, Romania and Vietnam). In total, 14,824 publication records were considered for the literature analysis. This study presented the scientometric analysis of these publications using bibliometric, statistical, factor analysis and network analysis methods. The results are evaluated and interpreted in the context of the Hofstede's model of cultural dimensions. The results of this study provide evidence to research management to properly allocate their efforts to improve the researcher cooperation during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and to overcome its negative outcomes in the years to come.FindingsThe results of our study show that uncertainty avoidance as the cultural factor defined by the Hofstede's model has significantly influenced the properties of research collaboration networks in the domain of business and economics. Uncertainty avoidance focuses on how cultures adapt to changes and cope with uncertainty, while the global COVID-19 pandemic introduced a lot of change and uncertainty all levels of society around the world.Research limitations/implicationsThe study exclusively examines 14,824 research outputs which have been indexed in the WoS Core Collection database from 2019 till 15 November 2020 and only covered one research area (business economics). Thus, documents published in any other different channels and sources which are not covered in WoS are excluded from this study. The authors have analyzed the publications from just 11 countries, which represent a small part of the global research output. Also, the Hofstede’s cultural dimensions model is not a unique way to study cultural characteristics at the national level.Practical implicationsThe results of this study will provide evidence to research management to properly allocate their efforts to improve the researcher cooperation during the still ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and to overcome its negative outcomes in the years to come.Originality/valueConsidering the global impact and social distress due to the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic, this study is significant in the present scenario for identifying the changes in the characteristics of research collaboration networks of 11 diverse (in terms of geographical distribution and cultural differences in terms of the Hofstede’s cultural dimensions model) countries between 2019 (the year before COVID-19) and 2020 (the year of COVID-19), which has not been done before.

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“…Decisions are made on an individual basis and are often risky. Uncertainty avoidance has been found to be positively correlated with the research impact of nations (Khosrowjerdi and Bornmann, 2019; Abraham, 2019).…”

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Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on researcher collaboration in business and economics areas on national level: a scientometric analysis

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Zailskaitė-Jakštė

2022

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“…Inclusion criteria were the countries identified by the total score of power distance index (pdi), individualism (idv), uncertainty avoidance index (uai), and long-term orientation (ltowvs). Note that the national cultural orientations have been relatively enduring (Abraham, 2019). There were 60 countries that fulfilled the inclusion criteria: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong SAR, China, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea Rep., Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Singapore, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Vietnam.…”

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Acceptance and Penetration of Bitcoin: The Role of Psychological Distance and National Culture

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Previous studies showed that a number of factors play roles in influencing Bitcoin penetration and acceptance, both at country and individual level, such as trust, perceived risk, security threat, perceived benefit, perceived ease of use, as well as macrotechnological and socioeconomic factors. This present study aimed at finding theoretical models at the macro-and microlevels that are able to explain the penetration and acceptance. Study 1 examined hypotheses on the predictive relationship between national cultural orientation and Bitcoin penetration involving 60 countries. Study 2, using a construal level perspective, tested the predictive strength of psychological distances against Bitcoin acceptance, involving 565 Indonesians (M age = 28.88 years, SD age = 12.482 years). The results showed that national culture of individualism, uncertainty avoidance, and long-term orientation are able to predict the penetration. Spatial/physical distance, social distance, and hypothetical distance are able to predict the acceptance. This research is pivotal in obtaining the fundamental factors of community vulnerability in accepting and endorsing new e-money, i.e. Bitcoin. Monetary policy is expected to consider cultural and psychological factors in intervening against economic-technological disruptive innovations developing among societies.

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National culture as a correlate of research impact and productivity

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Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on researcher collaboration in business and economics areas on national level: a scientometric analysis

Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on researcher collaboration in business and economics areas on national level: a scientometric analysis

Acceptance and Penetration of Bitcoin: The Role of Psychological Distance and National Culture

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