National culture and innovation capability: some observations concerning Chinese‐Americans

摘要: Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review the literature and discuss relations between national culture, subcultures innovation based on three perspectives: divergence, convergence crossvergence.Design/methodology/approach Based principally previous studies in “culture” “culture innovation” literature, reviews two key sets literature: first, perspectives macro‐level cultural interaction are reviewed; second, relationship culture reviewed. Hofstede's five dimensions workplace employed when discussing impact innovation.Findings outcome suggests that product crossvergence (Chinese‐American case) has a high potential be more innovative than one interacting cultures (Chinese), but does not draw conclusion regarding relative innovativeness Chinese‐American US culture. It generally found Wester...