Cultural and leadership predictors of corporate social responsibility values of top management: A GLOBE study of 15 countries.

This paper examines cultural and leadership variables associated with corporate social responsibility values that managers apply to their decision-making. In this longitudinal study, we analyze data from 561 firms located in 15 countries on five continents to illustrate how the cultural dimensions of institutional collectivism and power distance predict social responsibility values on the part of top management team members. CEO visionary leadership and integrity were also uniquely predictive of such values. Journal of International Business Studies (2006) 37, 823–837. doi:10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8400230

Culture's Consequences in International Trade

The purpose of this research is to close the knowledge gap between social studies and economics; to contribute to theory development in areas of international trade and cross-cultural management; and to predict cultural effects in international trade through comprehensive modeling of trade flows with empirically-generated cross-cultural data. The key research question is how and to what extent do cultural differences between countries influence bilateral trade flows. The author analyzes links between economic and organizational behavior theories that contribute to the advancement of a multi-disciplinary research of international trade. The cultural data collection is linked to the 62-societies’ Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness (GLOBE) research in which the author served as Country Co-Investigator. Application of the augmented gravity model reveals positive effects of cultural distance in international trade flows. These results support arguments about the role of specialization and preference for trade over FDI in higher cultural friction country combinations. They also argue against simplified negative interpretation of the role of cultural distance in bilateral trade flows. Among other valuable results of the dissertation are: (1) the creation of a cultural distance map for 57 countries representing all major parts of the world; (2) proof of consistency of the augmented gravity model with previous researches; (3) generation of the original “culture-trade” index for different countries that help to better understand complex cultural effects in trade

The Economic Role of Culture

The doctoral dissertation theme “Cultural predictors on economic performance and foreign direct investment” stems from two major streams of thought: (1) economic research on globalization and growth models and (2) cross-cultural studies that display distinctive features of societies translated into norms, values, and behaviors. In my research I extract and emphasize cultural variables that impact economic performance and may serve as predictors to effective direct investment in the foreign countries. This research will result in mathematical modeling of relations between cultural variables and international economic data; and in empirical confirmation of hypotheses through data collection and statistical analysis. The image displays the idea of bridging research on economic performance and on culture. The black lines present the classical supply-demand chart (“economy”); and five color overlapping circles communicate the idea of five continents of the world, like famous Olympic circles (“culture”). This graphical image reflects my search for the simple interpretation of an extremely complex cross-discipline problem

Women in Bulgarian Management: Cultural Perceptions

The study of cultural perceptions of the role of women in Bulgarian management is based on the survey of 125 Bulgarian managers conducted in 2014-2015 and application of the GLOBE cross-cultural research methodology. It highlights relatively high scores on behavior-tied perceptions of Gender Egalitarianism in Bulgaria compared to 62 societies and moderate scores on value-tied scores. The study displays visible gaps in perceptions of gender roles between women managers and male managers. The paper also compares Bulgarian managers’ perceptions on Gender Egalitarianism with the data from the European Union countries and confirms their consistency with the broader GLOBE research assessments