The impact of all six of Hofstede’s cultural dimensions (power distance, individualism/collectivism, masculinity/femininity, uncertainty avoidance, long-term/short-term orientation, and restraint/indulgence) on business innovation practice has not, to the best of our knowledge, been hitherto examined. Past research has focused on four or five of these cultural dimensions. The aim of this study is therefore to analyze how corporate innovation policies are affected by all these dimensions in a sample of firms operating in different countries. The paper draws on institutional theory, whereby firms domiciled in the same institutional context will behave in a similar manner and their decisions on innovation practices will therefore also be similar. The findings show that the cultural dimensions of power distance, masculinity, uncertainty avoidance, and long-term orientation are positively associated with innovation, while individualism has a negative effect, and indulgence has no effect whatsoever.

尽我们所能，霍夫斯泰德的六个文化维度（权力距离，个人主义/集体主义，男子气概/女性气质，避免不确定性，长期/短期取向以及约束/放纵）对业务创新实践的影响并没有知识，迄今已得到检验。过去的研究集中在其中四个或五个文化方面。因此，本研究的目的是分析在不同国家/地区运营的公司样本中，所有这些方面如何影响公司创新政策。本文借鉴了制度理论，即以相同制度背景为住所的公司的行为将相似，因此他们对创新实践的决定也将相似。研究结果表明，权力距离，男性气质，避免不确定性的文化维度，