The objective of this study is to have a cross-country examination of the moderating role of family ownership on the corporate social responsibility (CSR) - financial performance (FP) relationship, also understanding how the moderating effect is influenced by cultural dimensions of collectivism...

We train a deep learning model to predict countries’ Gini index from individuals’ cultural values assessed in the World Values Survey. When presented with a new set of respondents, the model’s predicted Gini index correlated highly with the actual Gini index. Feature importance analyses...

This paper investigates how consumers' perceived motivations for corporate social responsibility (CSR) influence retail store re-visit intentions, and how consumers' cultural beliefs influence consumers' perception of CSR activities during the Covid-19 pandemic. Two studies were conducted, the...

In this chapter, we review cultural differences in people’s attitudes about competition, why cultures differ in competition, and how they compete in different ways. Researchers have long associated collectivistic culture with harmony and cooperation. However, the bulk of the evidence suggests...

Courts and reputation-based enforcement mechanisms are often employed to mitigate the problem of cheating in trade relationships. The choice between these two enforcement mechanisms in conducting trade is closely associated with cultural dispositions to individualism and collectivism....

There is still inadequate knowledge about how AI selection affects people’s perceptions of fairness and attitudes towards firms. This paper explores how collectivism and individualism affect people’s perceptions of fairness and their attitudes towards firms in AI selection. Three experiments...

We study the influence of agricultural labor intensity on individualism across U.S. counties. To measure historical labor intensity in agriculture we combine data on crop-specific labor requirements and county-specific crop mix around 1900. To address endogeneity we exploit climate-induced...

We study cheating as a collective-risk social dilemma in a group setting in which individuals are asked to report their actual outcomes. Misreporting their outcomes increases the individual's earnings but when the sum of claims in the group reaches a certain threshold, a risk of collective...