Cultural roots of economic performance: A research noteA
研究发现，从东西方视角衡量的文化价值观解释了18至20个国家两个时期经济增长跨国差异的一半以上。儒家动力（强调节俭、毅力和等级关系）促进绩效，而个人主义是负担，群体凝聚力是资产。
Cultural values, measured from Western and Eastern perspectives, are factors in economic performance which explain more than half the cross-national variance in economic growth over two periods for samples of 18 and 20 nations. Performance seems facilitated by ‘Confucian dynamism’—stressing thrift, perseverance, and hierarchical relatedness, but not traditions impeding innovation. Cultural ‘individualism’ seems a liability, while the propensity for work in cohesive groups is an asset for economic performance. With business becoming more international, effective strategic management requires accounting for fundamental national differences such as those of culture identified in this study.