Mapping cultural tightness and its links to innovation, urbanization, and happiness across 31 provinces in China

• Main Authors: CHUA, Roy Y. J., HUANG, Kenneth, JIN, Mengzi
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2019
• Subjects: Culture; innovation; China; creativity; norms; Asian Studies; Human Resources Management; Organizational Behavior and Theory; Technology and Innovation
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/6197; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/7196/viewcontent/Mapping_Cultural_tightness_China_pv.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

We conduct a 3-y study involving 11,662 respondents to map cultural tightness—the degree to which a society is characterized by rules and norms and the extent to which people are punished or sanctioned when they deviate from these rules and norms—across 31 provinces in China. Consistent with prior r...