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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 Chen
The 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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  • Published

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  • Accepted version

Journal

Technovation

ISSN

0166-4972

Publisher

Elsevier

Volume

66-67

Page range

43-56

Department affiliated with

  • Business and Management Publications

Research groups affiliated with

  • International Business Publications

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  • Yes

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2017-05-30

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2019-05-30

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2017-05-29

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