Cross Cultural & Strategic Management: Volume 29 Issue 4

Local sourcing and MNC subsidiary performance: a legitimacy perspective

Kiyohiro Oki, Norifumi Kawai

Based on a legitimacy perspective, this study aims to investigate when local sourcing, as a strategic legitimacy action, improves or impairs subsidiary performance. The authors…

The effect of succession on corporate governance reform under the Chinese clan culture context

Linchuan Wang, Qianying Gao, Cisheng Wu

The fundamental component of Confucian culture is clan culture, which stresses that family ties are the most important of all social relationships and have an essential impact on…

Relationship between Big Five personality traits and knowledge sharing behaviour: moderating role of Islamic work ethics

Mudaser Javaid, Ayham A.M. Jaaron, Nor Hazana Binti Abdullah

The existence of intense competition in turbulent markets confirms the importance of using ethical employee practices in knowledge sharing behaviour (KSB) to ensure organisational…

Cross-border network ties of returnee entrepreneurs and foreign market diversity

Haiyan Li, Manman Wang, Ruihan Zhang

This study examines the effect of cross-border network ties of returnee entrepreneurs on the foreign market diversity of their ventures. The study further investigates how two…

Ethics-related value acculturation: the case of Thai employees working at UK and Japanese MNCs in Thailand

Sachiko Takeda, Davide Secchi, Jeff Bray

Multinational corporations (MNCs) at their foreign subsidiaries hire local employees, whose cultural values may differ from the organisations' home cultures. Such value…

Revisiting the influence of cultural novelty and emotional stability on general adjustment of expatriates hosted in emerging economies

Jun Wu, Jun Yang, John R. McIntyre, Xun Zhang

The relationship between cultural novelty and cross-cultural adjustment of expatriates is often assumed to be negative and linear, while the empirical results for the relationship…

Understanding the (lack of) utilization of work-family practices: a multilevel perspective

Yin Lee, Amit Kramer

Many employees do not use work-family practices to their full extent, even when they are in need of them. Drawing on the concept of psychological safety the authors propose a new…

A synthesized retail brand personality framework: a cross-cultural study of Taiwan and the United States

Ya-Hui Kuo, Pei-Chiang Wu, Sun Young Ahn

The purpose of this study was to develop a synthesized retail brand personality scale (RBPS) framework across retail formats. This research also addresses cultural differences by…

Do religions account for important cultural differences? An analysis across 100 religious groups in 27 African Countries

Michael Minkov, Anneli Kaasa

It is often believed that the type of religion that a group of people follow (Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, etc.) can account for significant…