Social Institutions and Work Centrality: Explorations Beyond National Culture
研究发现，除了国家文化维度外，社会制度（如社会主义、工会力量、教育可及性、社会不平等和工业化）也能解释不同国家间个体工作中心性的差异，且这些制度变量均预测更低的工作中心性。
In spite of the popularity of institutional explanations of organizational form, most international management research uses dimensions of national culture to explain cross-national differences in individual work centrality. In this study, we show that social institutions explain variance in work centrality in addition to Hofstede's (2001) dimensions of national culture. Using individual-level data from 30,270 interview respondents from the World Value Survey and institutional data for their 26 countries, we developed hypotheses to investigate whether selected social institutions (i.e., socialism, union strength, educational accessibility, social inequality, and industrialization) affect individual work centrality. We tested our cross-level hypotheses using Hierarchical Linear Modeling. Findings showed that all of the social institutional variables studied predicted lower work centrality.