Cultural variations in strategic issue interpretation: Relating cultural uncertainty avoidance to controllability in discriminating threat and opportunity

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 59-67

  Barr, Pamela S ^a   Glynn, Mary Ann ^b  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross cultural; Interpretation; Opportunity; Strategic issues; Threat

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

CULTURAL VARIATIONS; UNCERTAINITY AVOIDANCE (UA);

STRATEGIC PLANNING;

EID: 0346267364     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.361     Document Type: Article

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