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Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Across Cultures

Theory and Practices

  • Provides a framework for studying the impact of culture on innovation and entrepreneurship
  • Integrates insights from management, economics, sociology, anthropology, and psychology
  • Features cases, examples, and contributions from around the world

Part of the book series: Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management (ITKM)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
  2. Culture as a Driving Force of Individual and Organizational Behavior

    • Igor N. Dubina, Suzanna J. Ramos, Hector Ramos
    Pages 1-27
  3. Wandering the World in Search of Creativity

    • Robert Alan Black
    Pages 35-50
  4. Cross-Cultural Challenges for Innovation Management

    • Maria Rosaria Della Peruta, Nigel J. Holden, Manlio Del Giudice
    Pages 95-107
  5. Cultural Influences on Innovation and Competitiveness

    • Panagiotis E. Petrakis
    Pages 109-119
  6. Cultural Underpinnings in Entrepreneurship

    • Igor N. Dubina, Suzanna J. Ramos
    Pages 147-153
  7. Back Matter

    Pages 155-163

About this book

The aim of this volume is to further develop the relationship between culture and manifold phenomena of creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship in order to promote further and better understanding how, why, and when these phenomena are manifested themselves across different cultures.

Currently, cross-cultural research is one of the most dynamically and rapidly growing areas. At the same time, creativity, inventiveness, innovation, and entrepreneurship are championed in the literature as the critical element that is vital not just for companies, but also for the development of societies. A sizable body of research demonstrates that cultural differences may foster or inhibit creative, inventive, innovative and entrepreneurial activities; and each culture has its own strengths and weaknesses in these regards. Better understanding of cultural diversity in these phenomena can help to build on strengths and overcome weaknesses.

Cross-cultural studies in this field represent a comparatively new class of interdisciplinary research. This is a field where cultural, sociological, psychological, historical, economic, management, technology and business studies closely intersect. In this book, a global team of researchers representing Europe, Asia, and the Americas review, analyze, structure, systematize and discuss various concepts, assumptions, speculations, theories, and empirical research which focus on the effect of national cultures on creativity, invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship. They argue that national culture is not only an extremely important determinant of innovation and business development, but also demonstrate that some aspects relating to these phenomena may be universal among all cultures, thereby identifying those factors that may easily be transferred across cultures from those that are unique to their specific context.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Altai State University, Barnaul, Russia

    Igor N. Dubina

  • School of Business, George Washington University, WASHINGTON, USA

    Elias G. Carayannis

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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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Hardcover Book USD 159.99
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