Refining, Reinforcing and Reimagining Universal and Indigenous Theory Development in International Management

Jack, Gavin; Zhu, Yunxia; Barney, Jay B.; Brannen, Mary Yoko; Prichard, Craig; Singh, Kulwant; Whetten, David A.

doi:10.1177/1056492612458453

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“…Our aim instead is to encourage fundamentally different views and epistemologies to meet and interact in order for us, as researchers, to become more aware of our role in scientific knowledge creation. We also believe that such interactions can lead to exciting and ground-breaking studies for the "reimagination" of cross-cultural management research (Jack et al 2013).…”

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confidence: 97%

Cross-Cultural Management Studies: State of the Field in the Four Research Paradigms*

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Barmeyer

Primecz

et al. 2018

International Studies of Management & Organization

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Cross-cultural management research is often confined to the positivist tradition, which is archetypically illustrated by the seminal work of Hofstede. However, this gives an incomplete overview of the field to which three additional research paradigms contribute: interpretivist, postmodern, and critical. Our ambition is to raise awareness of the presence of multiple paradigms in cross-cultural management research. This meta-theoretical positioning allows researchers to consider the insights and contributions from the different paradigms. We aim to achieve this by presenting a brief overview of the state of the field in each paradigm, thus, stressing areas of studies that enrich our understanding of the interaction between culture and management (at the national, organizational, interpersonal, and individual levels). We then highlight the specific contributions of these four paradigms, drawing especially upon the postmodern and critical works, as they have been repeatedly overlooked in reviews. The article concludes by mentioning how more interactions between the paradigms can be developed and can lead to further knowledge development.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 97%

Cross-Cultural Management Studies: State of the Field in the Four Research Paradigms*

Romani

Barmeyer

Primecz

et al. 2018

International Studies of Management & Organization

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“…Another fruitful research stream relates to the recent debate on indigenous theory development in international business research (Holtbrügge, 2013;Jack et al, 2013). The key argument of indigenous research is to take context seriously and explicate the assumptions of theory.…”

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How culture influences the way entrepreneurs deal with uncertainty in inter-organizational relationships: The case of returnee versus local entrepreneurs in China

Liu

Almor

2016

International Business Review

110

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Entrepreneurship is widely associated with uncertainty that stems from inter-organizational relationships. The concept of uncertainty, however, has mostly been analyzed as a uni-variate variable that addresses perceived environmental uncertainty. In this conceptual paper we analyze the concept of uncertainty stemming from inter-organizational relationships in the entrepreneurial context as a multivariate concept, utilizing Milliken's framework, which examines uncertainty by differentiating between state, effect and response uncertainty. Cultural influences are critical in determining how entrepreneurs perceive, analyze and deal with uncertainty in inter-organizational situations. By using illustrative cases of returnee versus local entrepreneurs in China, we propose that entrepreneurs influenced by Western cultures tend to treat state uncertainty as a focal change event, whereas entrepreneurs from Eastern cultures are more likely to consider the contextual factors; entrepreneurs influenced by Western cultures tend to limit effect uncertainty in the professional work setting by looking at cause-effect in an analytical way, whereas entrepreneurs from Eastern cultures are more likely to look at effect uncertainty beyond work; and entrepreneurs influenced by Western cultures tend to respond to perceived uncertainty by analytical-strategic thinking, whereas entrepreneurs from Eastern cultures are more likely to connect multiple factors holistically and to react to uncertainty by engaging the wider community. We argue that in a globalizing world it is pertinent for entrepreneurs who operate in the international environment to have a better understanding of the various facets of uncertainty and how these are related to culture when dealing with inter-organizational relationships.

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“…There is, in other words, a tension between universalist accounts of economic activity which assume the diffusion, adoption and applicability of developed economy models, frameworks and theories and more contextualist views that see market evolution and economic actor response as a local (i.e. national) response to local conditions that needs to be researched and theorized on its own terms (Jack, Zhu, Barney Brannen, Prichard, Singh & Whetton, 2013;Harrison, 2017).…”

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Beyond institutional voids and the middle-income trap: The emerging business angel market in Malaysia

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Emerging economies are characterized by the presence of institutional voids which challenge and constrain the behavior of economic agents. In this paper we report on one set of agents, angel investors, in Malaysia, which investors fear is experiencing a middle income trap whereby economic growth and new venture formation stalls due to persistent institutional voids.This research addresses this question through interviews with 19 Malaysian business angel investors in 2015, utilizing a mixed methods approach. Results indicate that business angels in our sample generated strong returns, though they did find it a challenge to invest in and monitor new ventures in a highly uncertain and competitive environment where there is high political uncertainty, weak legal and financial support for investors and SMEs. In order to overcome weak institutional support, business angel investors develop informal institutions by co-investing and networking with family members and government officials. They also conduct careful due diligence before investing and closely monitor their investee companies after investing. This research provides several theory and practice contributions with respect to business-angel investing in emerging economies with weak formal institutional regimes.

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Refining, Reinforcing and Reimagining Universal and Indigenous Theory Development in International Management

Cited by 49 publications

References 47 publications

Cross-Cultural Management Studies: State of the Field in the Four Research Paradigms*

Cross-Cultural Management Studies: State of the Field in the Four Research Paradigms*

How culture influences the way entrepreneurs deal with uncertainty in inter-organizational relationships: The case of returnee versus local entrepreneurs in China

Beyond institutional voids and the middle-income trap: The emerging business angel market in Malaysia

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