The relationship between organisation size, technology implementation, and organisational culture is examined. Thirty‐five American and Canadian manufacturing organisations were surveyed concerning their approach to implementing statistical process control (SPC) technology. Organisations were...

Those in the business disciplines usually propose the superiority of unfettered market forces as an economic rationale in favor of globalization. This paper argues that business interests need to hear what critics have to say about the negative effects of globalization on developing nations and...

Purpose -- The purpose of the paper is to discuss the new realities of global rivalry which has been elevated to include economic competition between nations, in addition to the more traditional forms of competitive interactions between firms, Design/methodology/approach -- The Introduction...

Purpose: Most international marketing studies, taking a sociological position, assume homogeneity within and heterogeneity between cultures. Taking a psychological position and based on the Mindscape Theory, the purpose of this paper is to support the hypothesis that there is intra-cultural and...

Purpose: This paper aims to replicate and expand an earlier study that constructed a measurement of international managers’ mindset. Design/methodology/approach: The paper used a test-retest statistical analysis to determine the reliability of the index of the managerial mindset developed by...

Purpose: Japanese American philosopher Magoroh Maruyama (1969) proposed the Mindscape theory, a macro model of cultural differences identification. The theory suggests inter-and intra-cultural heterogeneity and four major Mindscapes of H, I, S and G. He and his colleagues designed 64 graphic...