Culture, meaning, and institutions: Executive rationale in Germany and Japan

By Michael A. Witt, G. Redding. 2009

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Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Translation in cross-language international business research: Beyond equivalence (2014, background): “Witt and Redding (2009) explore the thinking of senior executives of leading German and Japanese firms about the ideal structure of the economy.”
Consequences of cultural practices for entrepreneurial behaviors (2013, unknown): “Societal mechanisms operate through formal and informal institutions that are shaped by cultural preferences (Greif, 2001; Witt & Redding, 2008).”
Differences in managerial discretion across countries: how nation‐level institutions affect the degree to which ceos matter (2011, background): “Moreover, there is evidence of cross-national differences in executive departure rates (Lucier, Schuyt, and Tse, 2005), stock market responses to executive actions (Lee, 1997), board composition (Li and Harrison, 2008), and CEO strategic rationales (Witt and Redding, 2009).”
Asian Business Systems: Institutional Comparison, Clusters, and Implications for Varieties of Capitalism and Business Systems Theory (2013, background): “There has been a proliferation of focused studies especially of China (e.g., Huang, 2008; Witt and Redding, 2009; Robins, 2010), but also on other Asian economies individually (e.”
The Resilient Family Firm: Stakeholder Outcomes and Institutional Effects (2015, background): “…(La Porta et al., 2008), the distribution of political power among social classes (Roe, 2003), the cognitive orientations of executives and employees (Witt & Redding, 2008), and the level of a country’s economic development and experience with capitalist institutions (Yoshikawa, Zhu, & Wang, 2014).”
Which model of capitalism best delivers both wealth and equality? (2014, background): “The regulatory climate of a society will also have a profound effect on the economic actors within the society (Witt & Redding, 2009).”
Mapping the business systems of 61 major economies: A taxonomy and implications for varieties of capitalism and business systems research (2018, unknown): “In this vein, Witt and Redding (2009), for instance, illustrated a correspondence between the thought patterns of top executives of German and Japanese firms and the institutional shape of their economies.”
The Interrelationships Among Informal Institutions, Formal Institutions, and Inward Foreign Direct Investment (2013, unknown): “…of countries, empirical research often anchors the measurement of institutions in specific issues such as quality management (e.g., Kostova & Roth, 2002) and entrepreneurship (e.g., Busenitz et al., 2000) or examines institutional environments using qualitative methods (e.g., Witt & Redding, 2009).”
Comparative and International Corporate Governance (2010, background): “The cognitive and normative aspects of institutions are also taken up by Witt and Redding’s ( 2009a , 2009b ) research, who seek to fill the gap that Hall and Soskice ( 2001b , p.”