1. Individualist and collectivist cultures, and the welfare state : a global cross-national analysis of over 120 societiesTibor Rutar, 2025, original scientific article Abstract: Cultural differences between societies have turned out to be crucial determinants of various salient political-economic processes, including eco-nomic development and governance. The persistent, deeply historically rooted individualism-collectivism divide is especially important in this respect. But does this cultural cleavage also matter for the size of the modern welfare state? Theoretically, the issue seems undetermined. On one side, critical scholars have been warning that individualism erodes social solidarity and cohesion, bolstering self-centered and self-seeking behavior, and thus undermining the prospects of a robust social safety net. On the other side, awealth of empirical evidence shows individualism is associated with highertrust, more cooperation, and increased prosociality, suggesting it might act as a key structural foundation of the welfare state. Empirically, macro-level studies on the topic performed with large, globally representative sources are sparse to nonexistent. The present study seeks to address this gap in the literature by constructing a panel dataset of 120–140 countries and using the latest comprehensive, non-WEIRD-biased measure of collectivism. A varietyof different statistical estimations, including causal instrumental-variable an-alyses based on the Parasite-Stress Theory of Values and Sociality, uncover noevidence to support the claim that individualism corrodes the welfare state.Instead, correlational random-effects regressions clearly suggest the opposite,with collectivism consistently and significantly negatively predicting thewelfare state. Causal instrumental-variable analyses reveal a more mixed result, with many estimates turning out to be non-significant in at least some of the specifications.
Keywords: individualism, collectivism, welfare state, size of government, economic freedom
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2. Exploring differences in green innovation among countries with individualistic and collectivist cultural orientationsAlona Sova, Maja Rožman, Romana Korez-Vide, 2024, original scientific article Abstract: In this paper, we explore the extent to which individualistic and collectivist national cultural orientations are essential for green innovation. In this context, we also examine the extent of green innovation in countries at different levels of socioeconomic development. All data were collected for the latest available year (2020). This research was carried out on a sample of 60 selected countries, using parametric tests to identify statistically significant differences between variables and descriptive statistics to examine statistically significant differences in-depth. The results show that, on average, countries with prevailing individualistic cultural orientations and high levels of socioeconomic development perform better in green innovation than countries with prevailing collectivist cultural orientations. On average, countries with a prevailing individualistic cultural orientation scored moderate on green innovation, while countries with a prevailing collectivist orientation scored low. However, the level of socioeconomic development, including designing and implementing green policies, was recognized as essential to green innovation in both national cultures with prevailing individualistic orientations and national cultures with prevailing collectivist orientations.
Keywords: green innovation, national culture, individualism, collectivism, parametric statistics, descriptive statistics
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3. Knowledge capitalism : business, work, and learning in the new economyAlan Burton-Jones, 1999, manual Keywords: knowledge, management, capitalism, theory, support, empirical research, data, data sources, working organization, industrialization, human capital, intelligent systems, business, business operation of the enterprise, socio-economic development, contemporary society, work, learning, new economy, enterprise, property, control, restructuring, individualism, employment, supply, models, career success, career, entrepreneur, dependences, independence, business cooperation, networks, boundary, transition economics
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4. Renaissance management : the rebirth of energy and innovation in people and organizationsStephen Carter, 1999, manual Keywords: management, renaissance, reengineering, changes, individualism, society, human potential, human resource management, work, employment, creativity, motivation, working power, energetic system, organizational development, working organization, flexibility, team work, manager, partnership
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