Beyond Models of National Culture in Information Systems Research

By Michael D. Myers, Felix B. Tan. Journal of Global Information Management, 2002

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Subfields: Communication, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Discourses on ICT and Development (2010, background): “Such studies have been criticised as oversimplifying cultural difference, see for example (Myers and Tan 2002); they ‘sweep the subtleties of cultural difference under the universal carpet’, as Walsham put it in his extensive discussion of examples of IS innovation and culture research in developing”
Information technology and culture: Identifying fragmentary and holistic perspectives of culture (2005, background): “Thus, there is no simple one-to-one or one-tomany hierarchical relationship between ethnic culture and countries (Myers & Tan, 2002).”
Information systems research and Hofstede's culture's consequences: an uneasy and incomplete partnership (2003, background): “Authors within the IS field have recently questioned the overreliance on Hofstede’s dimensions and characterization of culture [16], [24]–[27].”
User Intentions to Adopt Mobile Payment Services: A Study of Early Adopters in Thailand (2015, methodology): “…framework elaborating different dimensions of culture is of particular interest to this study because the framework has been frequently used and validated, generally in a variety of management research projects (Myers & Tan, 2002), as well as in information technology research (Steenkamp, 2001).”
Cross-Cultural Software Production and Use: A Structurational Analysis (2002, background): “Myers and Tan (2002) noted that much of the literature concerned with cultural and cross-cultural issues in the IS field has relied on Hofstede's work.”
Information systems in developing countries: a critical research review (2008, background): “Never-theless, such studies have been repeatedly criticized by IS scholars as oversimplifying cultural difference, see for example Myers and Tan (2002); they ‘sweep the subtleties of cultural difference under the universal carpet’ as Walsham put it in his extensive discussion of examples of ISDC…”
Review: A Review of Culture in Information Systems Research: Toward a Theory of Information Technology Culture Conflict (2006, background): “At the national level, research investigates the applicability of traditionally western-based management theories to non-Western cultures and the influence of national culture on the development and use of ICTs (Myers and Tan 2002; Straub 1994; Walsham 2002).”
A Cross-Cultural Examination of the Endorsement of Ethical Leadership (2006, background): “Differences in ratings or in relationships between predictor and outcome variables may be the result of true differences across cultures (Myers and Tan, 2002) or to the non-equivalence in measures (Mullen, 1995).”
Culture's consequences: Economic barriers to owning mobile phones experienced by women in India (2016, background): “There are several competing theories and sophisticated cultural frameworks (e.g. Dickson et al. (2003), Inglehart and Welzel (2005), Myers and Tan (2002), Trompenaars and Hampden-Turner (2000), etc.) available to study the effect of culture on the ownership and usage of ICTs by individuals.”
Privacy calculus model in e-commerce – a study of Italy and the United States (2006, background): “Although dominating IS research, Hofstede’s cultural theory is considered dichotomic and simplistic (Myers & Tan, 2002; Ford et al., 2003) and new, more multidimensional theories need to be adopted that avoid reliance on assumed espoused cultural values (Straub et al., 2002).”