HCBE Faculty Articles
Title
Cultural Regions of Canada and United States: Implications for International Management Research
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2014
Publication Title
International Journal of Cross Cultural Management
ISSN or ISBN
1470-5958
Volume
14
Issue/Number
3
First Page
343
Last Page
384
Abstract/Excerpt
We consider why international business research comparing values, attitudes, and behaviors of managers from the United States and Canada shows conflicting results about cultural differences and similarities between these two nations. We argue that one reason behind these inconsistent findings is the presence of intranational subcultural regions in these nations. The second reason is that the variable(s) under scrutiny influence the generalizability of research findings. Employing Lenartowicz and Roth’s (1999) framework for culture assessment, theories of cultural evolution and maintenance, and data from the World Values Survey, we test the distinctiveness of subcultural regions in the United States and Canada, at both the individual level and the regional level of analysis. Results support our hypothesized arguments.
DOI
10.1177/1470595814543706
NSUWorks Citation
Petrescu, Maria; Dheer, Ratan; Lenartowicz, Tomasz; and Peterson, Mark F., "Cultural Regions of Canada and United States: Implications for International Management Research" (2014). HCBE Faculty Articles. 654.
https://nsuworks.nova.edu/hcbe_facarticles/654
