From Cross-Cultural Economic Experiments to Experimental Indigenous Management Research–A Suggestion
Horak, S. (2018). From Cross-Cultural Economic Experiments to Experimental
Indigenous Management Research–A Suggestion. Management and Organization
Review, 14(4), 651-691. DOI: 10.1017/mor.2018.39
Link:
https://doi.org/10.1017/mor.2018.39
Abstract
This study provides an overview, categorization, and integration of what has
been achieved in the niche of cross-culture experimental economics (CCEE) so
far, aiming to inspire indigenous management researchers to extend their
methodological toolbox by including experimental methods. As a result of the
review, we find that most of the early studies lack depth and contextualization
as well as detailed explanation about why human behavior differs. Hence, a
better understanding about the influence of culture on economic decision making
is rather limited if it cannot be explained in more detail. In contrast, deep
contextualization is a principle in indigenous management research (IMR). Both
have so far not benefited from each other in the study of how culture affects
human behavior, as both currently develop in parallel. Following the call for
high-quality IMR (Tsui, 2004), this paper argues that an experimental
methodology can make a contribution to IMR in the future by drawing on the
strengths of both IMR (i.e., contextualization) and CCEE (i.e., methodology).
Keywords
Indigenous Management Research, Culture, Experimental Economics, Research
Methods, Contextualization