ABSTRACT M-Pesa is one leading example of mobile money services. It reveals the
importance of digital financial inclusion (DFI) in countries still largely unbanked, and of …

Abstract Research Summary We evaluate the role of cultural tightness–looseness as an
explanation for cross‐cultural variation in new firm formation rates. Modeling cultural …

Past research has attributed the circulation of online news to two main factors—individual
characteristics (eg, a person's information literacy) and social media effects (eg, algorithm …

Self-objectification, defined as an excessive focus on one's physical appearance over non-
observable qualities, has attracted considerable attention from feminist scholars. In the …

The link between culture and innovative activity has been extensively studied in recent
years. Such research, however, is often limited to the direct relationship between culture and …

The purpose of this study is to examine consumers' willingness to patronize retail knockoffs,
taking Starbucks as an example. We make a connection between consumers' willingness to …

Why are some ingroup members (ie, natives) more tolerant of, or hostile toward, outgroup
others (ie, immigrants)? A large volume of evidence exists attempting to address this issue …

This paper adds to the literature on the determinants of health insurance by focusing
especially on the spillovers from culture and fraud, along with a set of “standard” …

This study examines the interplay between government-level tightness-looseness, cultural
tightness, innovation emphasis, and their effects on innovation outcomes in China from 2002 …

This article contributes to the scarce literature on the relationship between education and
innovation at the country level. In this article, it is examined whether educational attainment …