This study examined the relationship between employees' personal work values, their alignment with organizational values, and their effects on employee engagement and turnover intention, with a focus on generational differences. Drawing on the Person-Environment Fit framework, the Job...

We present evidence that shared institutional and economic contexts may be at least as important as culturally rooted gender equality norms for the size of the motherhood penalty. Our study covers child migrants and children of immigrants in Sweden, and while the results point to a moderate but...

Although it has been speculated that the pain and dislocation of the early 1990s left Russians with an abiding distaste for the values that animated the transition from communism, the quantitative evidence for a lasting effect is thin. Drawing on a large, regionally representative survey from...

This study investigates the influence of national cultural values on innovation performance across European Union (EU) member states, applying Hofstede's six-dimensional cultural model along with the 2024 Summary Innovation Index. Addressing major gaps in prior research-including the lack of...

Although it has been speculated that the pain and dislocation of the early 1990s left Russians with an abiding distaste for the values that animated the transition from communism, the quantitative evidence for a lasting effect is thin. Drawing on a large, regionally representative survey from...

Although it has been speculated that the pain and dislocation of the early 1990s left Russians with an abiding distaste for the values that animated the transition from communism, the quantitative evidence for a lasting effect is thin. Drawing on a large, regionally representative survey from...

This research examines how stakeholders prioritize public values within the decision-making process in smart mobility governance. Our insights are based on the OptiRoutS project, which aims to promote sustainable travel behaviors through prosocial routes in car navigation in Belgium. We...

China, as the world's largest carbon emitter, plays a pivotal role in driving the global green transition. Cultural values have long been recognized as a fundamental framework influencing individual behaviors. To enhance the effectiveness of emission reduction policies, this study focuses on...

We measure value-based leadership (VBL) - the strength of personal values and to what extent they penetrate firms' organization - in a survey of 1,500 Danish CEOs. First, VBL is more common in family firms and women CEOs. It is not correlated with the CEO's IQ or management practices. Second,...

This study investigates the association between childhood parenting styles and the emergence of risk-taking behaviors in young adulthood, a critical life course transition. Utilizing data on risk-taking behaviors among college students, alongside variables reflecting parent-child relationships...

This study extends social cognitive career theory (SCCT) by introducing cultural affordances as culturally embedded interpretive frameworks through which individuals make sense of and navigate between distal contextual affordances (e.g., Confucian values) and proximal contextual affordances...

One key element distinguishing family firms from non-family firms is the role of the family's religious beliefs, with growing attention on understanding the fit between religion and family in shaping a business's ethical conduct. A family firm's behavior is embedded in an institutional context,...

Social norms are crucial drivers of human behavior. However, misperceptions of others’ opinions may sustain norms and conforming behavior even if a majority opposes the norm. Privately shifting individuals’ beliefs about true societal support may be insufficient to change behavior if others...