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Configuring innovative societies: the crossvergent role of cultural and institutional varieties
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posted on 2023-06-09, 06:25 authored by Di Fan, Yi Li, Liang ChenThe study aims to explore why some societies are more innovative than others in high-technology sectors. Following a crossvergence perspective, we generate nine causal conditions by accommodating both cultural and institutional varieties: uncertainty avoidance, masculinity, individualism and power distance as culture indicators, and union density, skill development, market capitalization to credit, prevalence of cluster and state dominance as institutional indicators. Applying the configurational approach, we conducted fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) on Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) member countries. We confirm the equal importance of both cultural and institutional mechanisms as contributors to national innovativeness, and identify equifinal configurations of cultural and institutional varieties as leading to a high-tech society. The implication is that a society can adjust or develop various cultural and/or institutional conditions to maintain or create leadership in innovation.
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TechnovationISSN
0166-4972Publisher
ElsevierVolume
66-67Page range
43-56Department affiliated with
- Business and Management Publications
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- International Business Publications
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2017-05-30First Open Access (FOA) Date
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2017-05-29Usage metrics
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