Religious regimes and prospects for liberal politics: Futures of Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia

Moaddel, Mansoor

doi:10.1016/j.futures.2010.01.004

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“…Hofstede et al (2010) observed that Iran, relative to some other countries, has a society with high power distance and uncertainty avoidance and is more feminine, collectivistic, pragmatic and indulgent. Moaddel (2008) studied Iranian cultural values based on Huntington’s civilisation perspective. From the values surveys disseminated in Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, he extrapolated trends in values change among the denizens of these countries.…”

Section: Iranian Cultural Valuesmentioning

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Key cultural values underlying consumers’ buying behaviour: a study in an Iranian context

Karami

Olfati

Dubinsky

2017

JIMA

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Purpose By reviewing Iranian cultural values, this paper aims to identify Iranian cultural values that underlie consumers’ buying behaviours. Design/methodology/approach The study is an exploratory research; data are analysed through both exploratory and confirmatory factors analyses. Findings Based on research findings, 20 values can be subsumed under seven meaningful dimensions: cosmopolitanism, innovation, convenience, youthfulness, partiality, other-directedness and faithfulness. Cosmopolitanism was found to be the most influential value affecting consumer buying behaviour; faithfulness was the least important dimension. Research limitations/implications This research is based on quantitative data; using qualitative research or mixed method will enrich the findings. In addition, study findings are not generalisable to different aspects of cultural values and consumption in Iran. Therefore, future work should explore how cultural values influence their buying behaviour in Iran as one of major Islamic countries. Practical implications From a practical marketing perspective, firms interested in pursuing Iranian markets should consider modern cultural values in their product decisions and marketing communications to foster Iranian consumers’ attention and ultimately their purchase decisions. Originality/value The authors believe that this research can arouse sales and marketing managers to be alert for considering Iranian cultural values in their marketing mix decisions. This research also has managerial and research implications for designing and formulating promotion strategy in managing firms’ marketing communication.

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Section: Iranian Cultural Valuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Key cultural values underlying consumers’ buying behaviour: a study in an Iranian context

Karami

Olfati

Dubinsky

2017

JIMA

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“…Second, and more broadly, as residents of KSA, they are experiencing, similar to most populations in the global south, a time of entanglement, wherein a -traditional‖ culture overlaps with the forces of modernity, whose principles do not always coincide with local norms and values. In KSA, the forces of tradition demand conformity to the Islamic principles of collectivism and equality, and the forces of modernity reflect the Western principles of individualism and inequality (De Jong & Moaddel, 2013;Haykel et al, 2015;Moaddel, 2010). Tradition echoes a worldview in which one's in-group (e.g., extended family, tribe, etc.)…”

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Causal Attribution Preferences and Prospective Self-Assessment: The Unknowns of the Middle Eastern Learner

Pilotti

Alaoui

Hamann

et al. 2020

IJRES

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In the present field experiment, we examined the effects of a self-assessment exercise conducted in the middle of the semester on metacognitive awareness (i.e., the accuracy of self-assessment and its subjective confidence) and final test performance of college students of Middle Eastern descent. Effects were measured in the classroom against a business-as-usual control condition. It was hypothesized that if the exercise focuses students’ attention on internal causes (e.g., effort) in response to specific task demands, metacognitive awareness, metacognitive control, and, ultimately, final test performance would be enhanced. In poor performers, the exercise indeed improved the accuracy of self-assessment (as measured by grade estimates) and final performance. There was no evidence of the illusion of knowing phenomenon (i.e., the unrealistic belief that one knows or is able to perform a given task) among poor-performing students as their confidence in estimates remained low. Furthermore, the exercise did not change students’ causal attribution preferences, thereby suggesting that other dynamics are responsible for the effects of the self-assessment exercise.

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“…As such, hierarchies, and inequalities are accepted and expected as a way of life. In this regard, the KSA culture has been described in contradictory terms as one that tolerates or even endorses inequalities within a hierarchically organized social structure (Hofstede, 2001) and values honor and competition, or one that, propelled by Islam, favors egalitarianism (Khalid & Arshad, 2011;Moaddel, 2010) as well as harmony and collaboration.…”

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Perceptual organization and attribution preferences: a glimpse of the Middle Eastern bicultural mind

Pilotti

Salameh

Abdulhadi

et al. 2020

The Journal of General Psychology

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Evidence exists that Westerners rely on similarities to organize their perceptual experiences (descriptive style) and on dispositions to explain human behavior, whereas Far East Asians rely on functional relationships (relational style) and situational details. The present research challenged this dichotomy by investigating perceptual organization and causal attribution in bicultural women of Middle Eastern descent. In Experiment 1, participants were given three items from which to pick two that would go together (e.g., shampoo, conditioner, hair). In Experiment 2, participants were asked to explain desirable and undesirable outcomes (i.e., grades). In both studies, cultural orientation was assessed. When participants were given three items from which to pick two that would go together, they emulated the Westerners' descriptive approach to perception, selecting choices based on similarities (e.g., shampoo and conditioner) rather than on functional relationships (e.g., shampoo and hair). When participants explained desirable outcomes, they preferred internal causes, whereas when they explained undesirable outcomes, they preferred external causes, thereby expressing the self-serving bias often attributed to people from the West. Yet, they also exhibited a hybrid cultural orientation, which included both collectivistic and individualistic inclinations. Although these findings support a polycultural viewpoint, according to which people can manage coherent lives informed by multiple legacies, they also indicate that cultural mindsets do not evenly influence information processing.

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Religious regimes and prospects for liberal politics: Futures of Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia

Cited by 14 publications

References 10 publications

Key cultural values underlying consumers’ buying behaviour: a study in an Iranian context

Key cultural values underlying consumers’ buying behaviour: a study in an Iranian context

Causal Attribution Preferences and Prospective Self-Assessment: The Unknowns of the Middle Eastern Learner

Perceptual organization and attribution preferences: a glimpse of the Middle Eastern bicultural mind

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