Title :
Notice of Retraction
The effects of cultural dimensions on firms´ innovativeness
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Bus., Renmin Univ. of China, Beijing, China
Abstract :
Notice of Retraction
After careful and considered review of the content of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE´s Publication Principles.
We hereby retract the content of this paper. Reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper.
The presenting author of this paper has the option to appeal this decision by contacting TPII@ieee.org.
This paper examines the impact of four Chinese societal cultural dimensions on firms´ innovativeness in entrepreneurship. The findings are based on surveys of 207 firms in China. The results indicate that firms´ levels of power distance and uncertainty avoidance are negatively related to firms´ innovative propensity. Further, empirical results demonstrate that individualism is positively related to firms´ innovativeness. Different from the findings proposed by studies in Western countries, masculinity does not affect firms´ innovativeness in Chinese economic context. Contributions, managerial implications, limitations are also discussed.
Keywords :
economics; innovation management; organisational aspects; Chinese economic context; Chinese societal cultural dimension; entrepreneurship; firm innovativeness; individualism; innovative propensity; managerial implication; power distance; uncertainty avoidance; Cultural differences; Engines; Fuel economy; Human resource management; Innovation management; Power generation economics; Psychology; Shape; Technological innovation; Uncertainty; Chinese cultue; entrepreneurship; innovativeness; societal culture;
Conference_Titel :
Information Management and Engineering (ICIME), 2010 The 2nd IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chengdu
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5263-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICIME.2010.5477740
