The aim of this study was to investigate how positive and negative learning environments are related to students' motivation and knowledge sharing behaviour and therefore influence creativity. Questionnaires were administered to 579 students in tourism and hospitality management departments. Because the students within Chinese society are followers with collectivist values and are influenced by...

Micro-foundations have become an important emerging theme in strategic management. This paper addresses micro-foundations in two related ways. First, we argue that the kind of macro (or “collectivist”) explanation that is utilized in the capabilities view in strategic management ⎯ which implies a neglect of micro-foundations ⎯ is incomplete. There are no mechanisms that work solely on the macro...

Multilingual users of social networking sites (SNSs) write in different languages for various reasons. In this paper, we explore the language choice of multilingual Chinese and Korean students studying in the United States on Facebook. We survey the effects of collectivist culture, imagined audience, and language proficiency on their language choice. Results show that multilingual users use lan...

There are quite a number of published papers dealing with impacts of Chinese culture on IT practices. Although they contribute to a better understanding of the phenomenon, their findings are fragmented and not systematic. The aim of this paper is to address this inadequacy by contributing to a fuller picture. We do an exhaustive literature study of published referred papers in this area. We use...

Although scholars have examined antecedents to agglomeration, we understand less than we should about the impact of institutional environments. We theorize that characteristics of a country’s institutional environment encourage firms to agglomerate. To test our hypotheses, we examine the location pattern of 948 plant investments made by 274 firms across 29 countries in the global semiconductor ...

Although collectivist ideas have everywhere fallen into disrepute, this essay argues that socialism nevertheless will survive and be extended in the new century. That gloomy prospect looms, not because socialism is more efficient or more just, but because ceding control over their actions to others allows individuals to escape, evade and even deny personal responsibilities. People are afraid to...

Gen Z representatives from one Western and Eastern European country were the subjects of an empirical study investigating leadership style preferences effects motivation performance on leader preferences. Data 131 Ukrainian 157 Austrian analyzed. Different dimensions examined, including transactional/transformational production/employee/change orientation leaders. The results show significant d...

Just as leading Western countries have begun withdrawing from the neoliberal Washington Consensus that paved way for economic globalization over last 40 years, China has proposed an ambitious Belt and Road Initiative, or One Road, outlining its vision global development. President Xi's of collectivist cosmopolitanism is centered on principle sovereign equality between nations, emphasizing civil...