Two decades of change in cultural values and economic development in eight east Asian and pacific island nations

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 247-269

  Allen, Michael W ^a,h   Ng, Sik Hung ^b   Ikeda, Ken'ichi ^c   Jawan, Jayum A ^d   Sufi, Anwarul Hasan ^e   Wilson, Marc ^f   Yang, Kuo Shu ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF RAJSHAHI   (Bangladesh)

^f VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^g Fo Guang College of Humanities and Social Sciences   (Taiwan)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cross cultural study; Cultural change; Cultural values; Economic development

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247390644     PISSN: 00220221     EISSN: 15525422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022022107300273     Document Type: Article

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