The Role of National Cultures in Shaping the Corporate Management Cultures: A Three-Country Theoretical Analysis

Khan, Mohammad Ayub; Law, Laurie Smith

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“…In this regard, evidence from extant literature shows that sometimes consumers express themselves through symbols (Fahimeh, et al 2016;Kaur and Chawla, 2016). As a result marketers tap into this through their efforts to establish symbols that introduce products that have positive cultural values (Khan and Law, 2018). Ethics are often considered to be science of studying morality (Figar and Dordevic, 2016) and rules of moral values that is very helpful in making decisions (Tamunomiebi, and Ehior, 2019).…”

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“…Literature Review. Culture is the main foundation that controls people's activities, conduct of their lives and norms (Khan and Law, 2018). It is sometimes seen as an orientation system (Verboord and Nørgaard Kristensen, 2020), collective programming of the mind (Hofstede, 2011) or complex capabilities that covers knowledge, belief, art, law, morals, customs and habits acquired by members of a society (Papazoglou, 2019).…”

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“…Whether as an orientation system, software of the mind, or complex capabilities acquired by members of a society, consumers tend to be influenced by what is passed on to them as well as the influences the norms of the society they live in have on their buying behavior. The values and beliefs naturally define this influence in the society (Khan & Law, 2018) while these aspects of the society guides behavior and transmits direct and indirect messages about selection of goods and service to consumers (Liu and Segev, 2017;Popovic et al, 2019). Consumer preferences and consumer decision making on products may largely differ as a result of bias projected by culture.…”

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Consumer health knowledge: cultural norms and marketing of healthcare products

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Oloveze

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This paper discourses healthcare products that face some degree of acceptance within some societies due to specific cultural dilemmas and ethical concerns. The purpose of this paper is to assess consumer health knowledge on the cultural and ethical dilemma and norms as they affect the marketing of healthcare products. Literary sources indicate the existence of misconceptions and poor marketing performance of healthcare products within a cultural milieu in Nigeria, thus the focus is on indigenous people and their cultural backgrounds. To gain insight into consumer health knowledge, the study modelled Hofstede’s collectivism dimension following the dominant in-group cultural context of the indigenous people. The relevance of this scientific decision problem is that the result will cause an urgent policy approach, re-strategizing of approaches in communication and reach by the healthcare marketers and healthcare product producers. The research follows a survey pattern as data was collected for 4 – 5 months in year 2020 using a structured questionnaire while mean rating analysis and Pearson Coefficient correlation were used to analyze the result. The object of this research was Abia State in Nigeria, given that good numbers of the communities are notorious for the patronage of traditional healthcare products. The results proved that negligence of immunization, dependence on traditional health healers, and maintenance of ethical work environment are critical concerns that impact consumers’ health knowledge and their response to healthcare products being marketed by firms. Thus, the research makes an empirical confirmation and theoretically proves that Hofstede’s collectivism dimension appropriately profiles the dominant in-group cultural context of the indigenous people of Abia State, Nigeria. The findings of this research show its practical usefulness by identifying the need for communication, enlightenment and awareness programs, and practical demands for strategic approaches to marketing healthcare products within the communities. Policy-wise, the implication is the urgent demand to moderate beliefs and norms of the group by devising stringent measures for clinical laboratory tests of the traditional drugs and stiff penalties for defaulters of traditional healthcare product vendors and producers.

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“…However, there is no empirical study that links these four aspects. Khan & Law (2018) stated that character education in a country is influenced by developing cultural values. These values have a significant role in determining the success of the changes to determine.…”

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The Impact of Perceptions of Policy Dissemination, Communication, and Motivation on National Character Knowledge of Primary School Teachers

Mubarok

Akbar

Boeriswati

2021

JESR

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This study measures perceptions of policy dissemination, communication, and teacher motivation on knowledge of primary school teachers' nationality character. The survey method with structural equation models was used involving 144 primary school teachers in Pati, Central Java, Indonesia. The instruments were in the form of questionnaires on national character knowledge, policy dissemination, communication, and teacher motivation. The concern in this study is the cognitive abilities of primary school teachers in the form of knowledge of national characters and non-cognitive abilities in the form of policy dissemination, communication, and motivation. The study results indicated an influence of policy dissemination, communication, and motivation on primary school teachers' national character knowledge. Primary school teacher motivation provided a significant positive value on the teacher's nationality character's experience. In addition to the influence of non-cognitive abilities on cognitive abilities, there was also a positive influence between the non-cognitive abilities of primary school teachers. This study recommends that policymakers, including school principals, have an excellent opportunity to succeed in national character education, including character education in general, if policy dissemination is implemented optimally and appropriately to primary school teachers as educators. Received: 12 January 2021 / Accepted: 16 February 2021 / Published: 5 March 2021

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“…In essence, national culture is a system of beliefs that are deeply embedded within the society and is reflected in the behaviors of its organizations and people (Chen, Sun, & McQueen, 2010). This system is composed of diverse variables including language, religion, rules and regulations, political system, social organization, history, economy, technology, education, values, attitudes, customs, traditions, concept of time, music, art, and architecture (Khan & Law, 2018). The best known (and probably most comprehensive) study on national culture was done by Hofstede and Minkov (2010).…”

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Prosumers’ Engagement in Business Process Innovation – The Case of Poland and the UK

Ziemba

Eisenbardt

Mullins

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IJIKM

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Aim/Purpose: The main purpose of this paper is to identify prosumers’ engagement in business process innovation through knowledge sharing. Background: In the increasingly competitive knowledge-based economy, companies must seek innovative methods of doing business, quickly react to consumer demand, and provide superior value to consumers. Simultaneously, contemporary consumers, named “prosumers”, want to be active co-creators of value and satisfy their consumption needs through collaboration with companies for co-creation, co-design, co-production, co-promotion, co-pricing, co-distribution, co-consumption, and co-maintenance. Consequently, consumer involvement in development and improvement of products and business process must be widely analyzed in various contexts. Methodology: The research is a questionnaire survey study of 388 prosumers in Poland and 76 in the UK. Contribution The contribution of this research is twofold. First, it identifies how prosumers can be engaged in business processes through knowledge sharing. Second, it investigates the differences between Poland- and UK-based prosumers in engagement in business process. Findings: The study found that prosumers are engaged in knowledge sharing at each stage of the business process innovation framework. However, there are differences in the types of processes that draw on prosumers’ engagement. Prosumers in Poland are found to engage mostly in the business process of developing and managing products, whereas prosumers in the UK engage mostly in the business process of managing customer services. Recommendations for Practitioners: This study provides practitioners with guidelines for engaging prosumers and their knowledge sharing to improve process innovation. Companies gain new insight from these findings about prosumers’ knowledge sharing for process innovation, which may help them make better decisions about which projects and activities they can engage with prosumers for future knowledge sharing and creating prospective innovations. Recommendations for Researchers: Researchers may use this methodology and do similar analysis with different samples in Poland, the UK, and other countries, for many additional comparisons between different groups and countries. Moreover, a different methodology may be used for identifying prosumers’ engagement and knowledge sharing for processes improvement. Future Research: This study examined prosumers’ engagement from the prosumers’ standpoint. Therefore prosumers’ engagement from the company perspective should be explored in future research.

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The Role of National Cultures in Shaping the Corporate Management Cultures: A Three-Country Theoretical Analysis

Cited by 24 publications

References 37 publications

Consumer health knowledge: cultural norms and marketing of healthcare products

Consumer health knowledge: cultural norms and marketing of healthcare products

The Impact of Perceptions of Policy Dissemination, Communication, and Motivation on National Character Knowledge of Primary School Teachers

Prosumers’ Engagement in Business Process Innovation – The Case of Poland and the UK

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