From Cross-Cultural Economic Experiments to Experimental Indigenous Management Research-A Suggestion

• Main Author: Horak, S. (Author)
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2018
• Subjects: Contextualization; culture; experimental economics; indigenous management research; research methods
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 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, I 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). © 2018 The International Association for Chinese Management Research.