Should cross-cultural management scholars study race?

Cross Cultural Management

Personal Music Retrieval, Management and Consumption – A Cross-Cultural Study

This paper reports a user study on creating, consuming and managing digital music content. We consider people’s personal relationship to the music entertainment technology and content, and the typical actions carried out in and outside of the home domain. The study was carried out in two cultural environments, New York City and Hong Kong.

Cross-cultural evaluation of predicted associations between race and behavior

Rushton argues that much variation in human behavior is explained by membership in one of only three genetic groups or ‘‘races’’ (‘‘Negroids,’’ ‘‘Caucasoids,’’ and ‘‘Mongoloids’’). Using previously coded data on the 186 society Standard Cross-Cultural Sample, we find no statistical support for the predicted associations between ‘‘race’’ and behavior. D 2003 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Management Styles and Commitment: A Cross-Cultural Study

A cross-cultural model designed to investigate the cultural influences on leadership and management styles adopted by managers as well as the effect of different management styles on affective commitment intensity is presented. It is further argued that culture significantly influences affective commitment intensity independently from the management style. Research propositions are formulated b...

Why scholars should write in Markdown

Substantial learning curve: Microsoft Word is a complicated program that is difficult to use well. Appearance versus structure: Word-processing programs like Word conflate composition with typesetting. They work by having you specify how a document should look, not how it is structured. A classic example is section headings. In a typical markup language, you specify that something is a heading ...