Purpose

This paper aims to argue that national cultural context variables influence open strategy formation processes. This study suggests that country-specific differences may influence open strategy, a form of strategic decision-making and present propositions linking national culture dimensions, national trust orientation and open strategy.

Design/methodology/approach

The conceptual framework links the literature on Hofstede’s cultural dimensions to the open strategy paradigm. This paper adopts a contingency approach linking national culture to open strategy.

Findings

The theoretical arguments demonstrate that uncertainty avoidance, time orientation, power distance, individualism versus collectivism and national trust culture all have a moderating influence on the antecedents and outcomes of open strategy. The findings extend the external validity of the open strategy paradigm and show that a culture-bound explanation of open strategy may be useful to the understanding of open strategy.

Practical implications

The findings highlight the challenges and opportunities that managers face when they adopt open strategy processes in multinational settings and across different cultures. Managers need to be aware that national cultural variables affect how employees behave and how they are likely to act when faced with opportunities for inclusion, shared decision-making and transparency. The findings suggest that training employees ahead of time on the cultural effects of their behavior may aid the successful adoption of open strategy in different cultures.

Originality/value

This manuscript to our knowledge, maybe one of the first to make a direct link between openness and national cultural values. In the process, the conceptual framework extends research on the role of context on openness, as well as research at the nexus of cross-cultural issues and strategic decision-making.

中文翻译：

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开放战略：民族文化的影响是什么？

目的

本文旨在论证国家文化背景变量影响开放战略的形成过程。这项研究表明，国家特定的差异可能会影响开放战略，这是一种战略决策形式，以及将国家文化维度、国家信任导向和开放战略联系起来的当前命题。

设计/方法/方法

概念框架将关于霍夫斯泰德文化维度的文献与开放战略范式联系起来。本文采用了一种将民族文化与开放战略联系起来的权变方法。

发现

理论论证表明，不确定性规避、时间取向、权力距离、个人主义与集体主义以及国家信任文化都对开放战略的前因和结果具有调节作用。研究结果扩展了开放战略范式的外部有效性，并表明对开放战略的文化约束解释可能有助于理解开放战略。

实际影响

调查结果突出了管理者在跨国环境和不同文化中采用开放战略流程时面临的挑战和机遇。管理人员需要意识到，国家文化变量会影响员工的行为方式以及他们在面临包容、共享决策和透明度机会时可能采取的行为方式。研究结果表明，提前对员工的行为对文化的影响进行培训可能有助于在不同文化中成功采用开放战略。

原创性/价值

据我们所知，这份手稿可能是第一个将开放性与国家文化价值观直接联系起来的手稿之一。在此过程中，概念框架扩展了对环境对开放性作用的研究，以及对跨文化问题和战略决策关系的研究。