Power distance, uncertainty avoidance, and rukun: Managing the trans-boundary haze crisis in Indonesia

• Main Authors: WARDOYO, Reidinar Juliane, PANG, Augustine
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2017
• Subjects: Haze crisis; collectivist culture; crisis communication; transboundary haze crisis; Indonesia; Asian Studies; Business and Corporate Communications; Environmental Policy; Organizational Behavior and Theory
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/6050; https://worldcat.org/isbn/9781119081807
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Indonesia is home to more than 200 ethnicities who speak more than 300 local languages. This chapter examines how Indonesian cultural characteristics surfaced in the face of government's crisis response in the 2013 transboundary haze crisis when forest fires that raged in Riau, Indonesia, cause...