Culture and International Business,
Preliminary Reading List
Jens Kaalhauge Nielsen, PhD
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of literature will be provided at the beginning of the course.
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Introduction: How to think about complex systems like Culture and Society?
What is culture?
Cognition and the evolution of culture.
The industrial revolution and the culture of the West.
The cultural framework of industrial dynamics.
Culture, innovation and business dynamics.
Culture, cognition and managerial attitudes.
Culture and business organizational behaviour.
Cultural dynamics in the Chinese consumer-market.
Reading-list.
1. Introduction: How to think about complex systems like Culture and Society?
Guberman, Shelia, “Reflections on Ludwig von Bertalanffy’s “General System Theory:
Foundations, Development, Applications.” Los Altos, California, USA. No Date.
Staubman, Helmuth, “The Affective Structure of the Social World: Repairing a Blind Spot in
Luhmann’s Sociology with Parsons’ General Theory of Action.” Department of Sociology,
University of Innsbruck, July 2004.
Supplementary literature:
Interview with Heinz von Foerster. (Video, German language).
2. What is culture?
Parsons, Talcott, “Culture and Social Systems Revisited.” Social Science Quarterly, September
1972. pp.253-266.
Parsons, Talcott, “A Tentative Outline of American Values.” Theory, Culture & Society, vol.6.
1989. pp. 577-612.
Parsons, Talcott, “On the Concept of Value-Commitments.” Chapter 16 in Talcott Parsons, Politics
and Social Structure. New York: The Free Press 1969.
Nielsen, Jens Kaalhauge, “On the Concept of Culture.” Working Paper. pp.1-29.
Supplementary literature:
Straub, D.W., K. Loch et al., ”Toward a theory-based measurement of culture.” Journal of Global
Information Management. Vol.31. no.1. 1997. pp.1-11.
3. Cognition and the evolution of culture.
Heinrich, Joseph and Richard McElreath, “The Evolution of Cultural Evolution,” Evolutionary
Anthropology, Vol. 12. Pp.123-135. 2003.
Beratan, Kathi K., “A Cognition-based View of Decision Processes in Complex Social-Ecological
Systems.” Ecology and Society,12 (1), 2007.
Kronenfeld, David B, “Culture as Distributed Cognition.” Department of Anthropology, University
of California, Riverside, November, 1999.
Gabora, Liane, “The Origin and Evolution of Culture and Creativity.” Journal of Memetics, 1997.
Gabora, Liane, "The Cultural Evolution of Socially Situated Cognition." Cognitive Systems
Research, 9 (1-2) 2008. pp.104-113. http://www.vub.ac.be/CLEA/liane/papers/ssc.htm
Lewontin, Richard C., “The Evolution of Cognition: Question We Will Never Answer.” ????
Cordes, Christian, "Emergent Cultural Phenomena and their Cognitive Foundations." Max Planck
Institute for Economics, 2007.
Supplementary resources:
Conversation with History: Richard C. Lewontin. Interviewer: Harry Kreisler. (Video). University
of California at Berkeley, November 20, 2003.
Plotkin, Henry, “Cognition and History: The Evolution of Intelligence and Culture.” University
College London, 1996.
Gabora, Liane, “Ideas is not Replicators but Mind are.” Biology and Philosophy, 19 (1), 2004.
pp.127-143.
4. The industrial revolution and the culture of the West.
Nielsen, Jens Kaalhauge, “Why did the industrial revolution happen in Europe? Why not China?”
Part 1-10. Kaalhauge Blog, 2007-2008. http://kaalhauge.weblogs.asb.dk
Nielsen, Jens Kaalhauge, “Europe and the Industrial revolution: Why not China?”
Working paper, 2005.
Mokyr, Joel, “Why was the Industrial Revolution, a European Phenomenon?” Department of
Economics and History, Northwestern University, Fall 2002.
Landes, David S. “Why Europe and the West? Why Not China?” Journal of Economic
Perspectives, Vol.20. no.2. Spring 2006. Pp.3-22.
Schluchter, Wolfgang, "The Paradox of Rationalization: On the Relation to Ethis and World." in
Guenther Roth & Wolfgang Schluchter, Max Weber's Vision of History.
Wittfogel, Karl A. "Chinese Society: A Historical Survey." The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol.16.
No.3. May 1957. pp.343-364.
5. The cultural framework of organizational and industrial dynamics.
Hatch, Mary Jo, “The Dynamics of Organizational Culture,” Academy of Management Review,
vol.18, no.4. October 1993.
Fitzgerald, T.H. “Can Organizational Culture really be managed?” Organizational Dynamics, vol.1.
1988. pp.5-15.
Van Oudenhoven, J.P. “Do Organizations Reflect National Cultures? A 10-Nation Study.”
International Journal of Intercultural Relations, vol. 25. 2001. pp.89-107.
Hofstede, Geert, "The culture of International Business is Culture." In Peter J. Buckley and Pervez
N. Ghauri (ed.) Internationalization of the Fir: A Reader. 1999.
Franke, R.H., Hofstede, G. & Bond M.H., ”Cultural roots of economic performance: A research
note.” Strategic Management Journal, vol.12. 1991. pp.165-173.
Hofstede, Geert., “National cultures in four dimensions: A research theory of cultural differences
among nations,” International Studies of Management and Organi8zation, vol.13. 1983.
Kedia, B.L. & R.T. Keller and S.T. Julian, “Dimensions of National Culture and Productivity of
R&D Units.” Journal of High Technology Management, vol.3. no.1., 1992. pp.1-18.
Shane, S.A., Why Do Some Societies Invent More Than Others?” Journal of Business Venturing.
Vol.7., 1992. pp.29-46.
Nielsen, Jens Kaalhauge, “Will India surpass China in the dynamic of Economic Growth?”
Working paper, June 2005 Further editing November 2005.
Supplementary literature:
Yip, George S., Johnny K. Johansson & Johan Ross, “Effects of Nationality on Global Strategy.”
Management International Review, vol.37. no.4. 1997. pp.365-385.
6. Culture, innovation and business dynamics.
Kreiser, Patrick, Louis Marino and K. Mark Weaver, “Correlates of Entrepreneurship: The Impact
of National Culture on Risk-Taking and Proactiveness in SMEs.”
Lorsch, J. “Managing Culture: The Invisible Barrier to Strategic Change,” California Management
Review, Winter, 1986.
Shane, S., “Cultural influence on national rates of innovation. Journal of Business Venturing, vol.8.
1993. pp.59-73
Tshikuku, Kabeya, “Culture, Entrepreneurship and Development in Africa.” December 2001.
Murray, Fiona, “Innovation as overlapping scientific and technological trajectories: exploring
tissue engineering.” MIT Sloan School of Management, no date.
Ismail, Wan Khairuzzaman & R. Abdmajid, “Framework of the culture of innovation: A Revisit.”
Jurnal Kemanusiaan, vol. 9. June 2007.
Freeman, Alan, ”Culture, Creativity and Innovation in the Internet Age.” MPRA/ Birkbeck College,
May 23, 2008-
Supplementary literature:
Straub, D.W., “The effect of culture on IT diffusion: e-mail and fax in Japan and the US.”
Information Systems Research, vol.5. no.1. 1994. pp.23-47.
Van Rij, Jeanne, “Trends, Symbols, and Brand Power in Global Markets: The Business
Anthropology Approach.” In: Gay Ferraro (ed.) Applying Cultural Anthropology: Readings.
Pp.110-115. Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing, 1998.
7. Culture, cognition and managerial attitudes.
Pilotti, Luciano & Silvia Rira Sedita, “Human Capital Development in a Complex Learning
System: The Virtuous Interaction Between Individuals, Organizations and Communities.”
Universitá degli Studi di Milano, 2005.
Hofstede, Geert., “Managerial values: The business of international business in culture.” In: T.
Jackson (ed.) Cross-Cultural Management. Oxford, UK: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1995.
Kelly, Lane, Whatley, Arthur and Worthley, Richard, “Assessing the Effects of Culture and
Managerial Attitudes: A Three-Culture Test,” Journal of International Business Studies, vol. 18.
no.2. Summer 1987.
Maruyama, M. “Mindscapes, Individuals and Cultures in Management,” Journal of Management
Inquiry, vol. 2. No. 2. 1993. pp.140-154.
Tripsas, Mary & Giovanni Gavetti, “Capabilities, Cognition and Inertia: Evidence from Digital
Imaging.” Harvard Business School, Harvard University, May 2000.
Bollier, David, “The Rise of Netpolitik: How the Internet Is Changing International Politics and
Diplomacy.” Aspen Institute, 2003.
Supplementary literature:
Abdul Rahim A. Al-Meer, “Attitudes Towards Woman as Managers: A Comparison of Asians,
Saudis and Westerners,” Arab Journal of the Social Sciences, April 1988, pp.139-149.
Sackmann, Sonja A., “Culture and Subcultures: An Analysis of Organizational Knowledge,”
Administrative Science Quarterly, vol.37. March 1992. pp.140-161.
8. Culture and business organizational behaviour.
Flota, Timothy B. & Walter J. Ferrier, “International Expansion through sequential investment: The
effects of national culture on buyouts and dissolutions in biotechnology partnerships.”
Ghauri, Pervez, “Negotiation with the Chinese: A Sociocultural Analysis,” Journal of World
Business, vol. 36, no.3. Fall 2001.
Jones, G.K. & H.J. Davis, ”Implications of National Culture on the Location of global R&D,”
Management International Review, Second Quarter, vol. 40., Issue 1. 2000. pp. 11-39.
Kogut, Bruce and Singh, Harbir, “The Effect of National Culture on the Choice of Entry Mode,”
Journal of International Business Studies, vol.19. no. 3. Fall 1988.
Li, Ji, Lam, Kevin and Qian, Gongming, “Does Culture Affect Behavior and Performance of Firms?
The Case of Joint Ventures in China,” Journal of International Business Studies, vol. 32. no.1.
Spring 2001.
Geletkanycz, M.A. “The salience of ‘culture’s consequences: The effects of cultural values on top
executive commitment to the status quo.” Strategic Management Journal, vol.18. no.8. 1997.
pp.615-634.
9. Cultural dynamics in the Chinese consumer-market.
Yang, Zhang & Zhou Haiwei, “Strategy Cognition of Chinese Enterprise Managers: Learning,
Reconstruction and Integrating Innovation of East and West Strategy Thoughts. Business School,
Hohai University, 2006.
Kloet, Jeroen de, “Cultural Synchronization: Hip Hop with Chinese Characteristics? “ Department
for Media and Culture , University of Amsterdam, 2005.
Yi-you, Li, “Brand Effect on Consumer Behavior in China.” School of Textiles and Garments,
Southern Yangtze University, 2004.
Dong, Lily & Kelly Tian, “How Chinese Consumers Historicize Foreign Brands: Narratives of
East-West Relations and Their Use to Enliven Consumption Fantasy.” University of Alaska,
Fairbanks, 2004 (?).
http://www.business.uq.edu.au/download/attachments/14483973/ktian-paper.pdf
Kang, Stephanie, “Adias Ad Campaign Invokes Chinese Nationalism.” The Wall Street Journal,
July 3, 2008.
Kristof, Nicholas D., “Grace Wang and Chinese Nationalism.” The New York Times, April 19,
2008.
“Foreign or Local Brands: Rationalism Trumps Nationalism.” The Boston Consulting Group, 2008.