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Study on national culture and innovation in Eastern Europe

The relationship between national culture and innovation at the national level is well established in the literature. However, ambiguity regarding the relationship still exists. The influence of different national culture dimensions in different empirical settings seems to provide contradicting results, especially when comparing countries with significant differences in national culture, such as Western European and Far Asian countries. In order to shed light on the understudied relationship between national culture and innovation in Eastern European countries we conducted an analysis of the relationship between Hofstede’s national culture dimensions and the Global Innovation Index in selected countries to find out if the proposed relationships that can be found in the literature hold true for the countries of the former Eastern Block. In this way we hope to contribute to the literature studying this interesting phenomenon.

Hofstede, national culture dimensions, innovation, global innovation index

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