文档介绍：THE IMPACTOF NATIONALCULTURE AND ECONOMIC
IDEOLOGYON MANAGERIALWORK VALUES:
A STUDY OF THE UNITED STATES,
RUSSIA, JAPAN,AND CHINA
DavidA. Ralston*
Universityof Connecticut
DavidH. Holt**
Lingnan College
RobertH. Terpstra***
Universityof Macau
Yu Kai-Cheng****
Dalian Universityof Technology
Abstract. This study assesses the impact of economic ideology and
nationalculture on the individualwork values of managersin the United
States, Russia, Japan, and China. The convergence-divergence-cross-
vergence(CDC) frameworkwas used as a theoreticalframework for the
study,while the SchwartzValue Survey (SVS) was usedto operationalize
our investigationof managerialwork values across these four countries.
The findingslargely supportthe crossvergenceperspective, while also
confirmingthe roleof nationalculture. Implications from the findingsare
drawnfor the convergence-divergence-crossvergenceof values, as well as
for the feasibilityof multidomesticor global strategiesfor a corporate
culture.
INTRODUCTION
The convergenceor divergenceof work values has been an importantdebate
for the past several decades as panies have struggled to
*David A. Ralston is a member of the Management Department at the University of
Connecticutand a ProjectDirector at the UConn CIBER Center.
**DavidH. Holt is a memberof the ManagementDepartment at LingnanCollege in Hong
Kong.
***RobertH. Terpstrais DepartmentChair of the Finance Departmentat the Universityof
Macau, Macau.
****YuKai-cheng is a memberof the ManagementDepartment and Dean of the Business
School at Dalian Universityof Technology,Dalian, PRC.
The authors wish to thank Pamela Perrewe, Sharon Foley, Sharon Segrest, and the anonymous reviewers for
their ments on an earlier draft of this paper. A prior version of this paper was presented at the
1995 Academy of Management Meetings, Vancouver and included in the Best Papers Proceedings of that
conference.