This paper studies the role of institution in a Darwinian evolutionary process of cultural selection. The primary function of an institution is to determine how citizens in a society are matched pairwisely to interact. We examine three different types of institutions: utilitarian, egalitarian,...

Organizational culture is a critical factor in shaping companies' overall well-being, which can impact their employees' job satisfaction, loyalty, creativity, and productivity. In this study, the researchers aimed to examine the relationship between organizational culture and companies'...

Many authors hold various views on the view that culture has an influence on consumer buyer behavior. Some authors denotes that’s culture is something which is acquired and it does not include inherited responses and predispositions. The same authors contend that since much of consumer human...

In strictly economic terms, economic development is the process whereby the real per capita income of the country increases over a long period of time subject to stipulations that the people below an absolute poverty line does not increase, and that the distribution of income does not become...

The study of consumer behaviour focuses on the actions people take when trying to meet their own or their organization's needs by acquiring, utilising, and eventually discarding various products. You can classify these actions as follows: picking, shopping, using, and throwing away (Solomon,...

Despite the importance of family businesses in any economy, studies have shown that "Only about 20% of family businesses last beyond 60 years in the same family”. (BT, Jan 7, 1998). The average life span of family business is 24 years, which coincides with the average time the founder is...

World cultural heritage (WHS) is of great significance to promoting the sustainable development of cities, and history culture is very important to achieve the goal of sustainable development. The purpose of this paper is to construct a cultural heritage evaluation system and to explore and...

Evidence suggests that the prehistoric Out of Africa Migration has impacted the degree of intra-population genetic and phenotypic diversity across the globe. This paper provides the first evidence that this migration has shaped cultural diversity. Leveraging a folklore catalogue of 958 oral...

Results from cultural evolutionary theory often suggest that social learning can lead cultural groups to differ markedly in the same environment. Put differently, cultural evolutionary processes can in principle stabilise behavioural differences between groups, which in turn could lead selection...

Ethnically diverse countries are more prone to conflict, but why do some groups engage in conflict while others do not? I show that civil conflict is explained by ethnic groups' cultural distance to the central government: an increase in cultural distance, proxied by linguistic distance,...

Technological and social changes have made the organizational nature more open and accessible than ever. In recent years, modern leadership styles are used to efficiently manage these radical changes, and social intelligence and cultural intelligence concepts are used to get an edge over these...

This research focuses on potential cross-country differences in investors' non-pecuniary ``taste'' for sustainability. Relying on data from a stated-choice experiment conducted in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Morocco and Turkey, I control for country-related differences in the reaction to...

Demographically, more than half of the African population are women. Nevertheless, disparities in allusion to gender lingers at the apex of contemporary issues, especially in Africa. For several decades, women have been longstanding and continuously side-lined from the socioeconomic, cultural,...

This paper investigates the effects of cultural origin on entrepreneurship. Using Swedish registry data on second-generation immigrants and risk appetite measures from the Global Preference Survey (GPS), we investigate whether risk preferences in parents’ home countries affect...

This paper investigates impact of cultural origin on entrepreneurship. Using Swedish registry data on second-generation immigrants and risk appetite measures from the Global Preference Survey (GPS), we investigate whether risk preferences in parents’ home countries affect entrepreneurship. We...

In this paper, I argue that cultural additivity mechanism could be the means of human survival and development. My point is based on two core works. The first is “Cultural additivity: behavioural insights from the interaction of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism in folktales”. In this...

[Begrüßung:] (...) Das diesjährige Symposium hat das Anliegen, Theorie und Empirie, Wissenschaft und Praxis, Hochschule und Unternehmen zusammenzubringen, sich über die kommunikativen Aspekte der Wirtschafts- und Unternehmenskommunikation vor dem Hintergrund von Diversity, Inklusion und...

According to the widely known ‘culture of honor’ hypothesis from social psychology, traditional herding practices have generated a value system conducive to revenge-taking and violence. We test the economic significance of this idea at a global scale using a combination of ethnographic and...

Culture has played a pivotal role in human evolution. Yet, the ability of social scientists to study culture is limited by the currently available measurement instruments. Scholars of culture must regularly choose between scalable but sparse survey-based methods or restricted but rich...

Purpose: In today's global business environment, international assignments have become integral part of employee's job profile. Adaptation to a different cultural environment plays a role in affecting employee's performance. In such a situation, cultural intelligence plays an important role. In...

This study aims to assess the role of culture as a determinant of financial inclusion, defined with respect to formal account ownership, saving and credit in/from formal financial institutions. A sample of 85 countries, comprising 50 developing and 35 developed countries from the World Bank’s...

For a long time, it was assumed that hard location factors (e.g. workforce, land) were the primary influence on the location decisions of firms. In the course of the tertiarization of the economy and linked increases in the qualification of employees as well as changes in values and timemodels,...

Purpose - the purpose of the article is to identify factors of cultural economics and examine their impact on countries' competitiveness. Research methodology - in this study, the following factors have been determined to affect the competitiveness of the European Union countries: cultural...

Making use of the information from the World Value Survey (WVS), and operationalising a definition of national culture that encompasses both the relevance of specific cultural traits and the interdependence among them, this paper proposes a methodology to reveal the latent structure of national...

We introduce the concept of a “code”- a fuzzy mapping between two distinct sets of cognitive constructs – as a fundamental construct to study culture. The concept of a code, and the distinction between using a code vs. expectations about the code others use, can be applied to study many...

This paper reviews the literature on gender and culture. Gender gaps in various outcomes (competitiveness, labor force participation, and performance in mathematics, amongst many others) show remarkable differences across countries and tend to persist over time. The economics literature...