TY - JOUR A1 - Deckert, Carsten A1 - Schomaker, Rahel M. T1 - Cultural tightness–looseness and national innovativeness: impacts of tolerance and diversity of opinion JF - Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship N2 - The links between innovativeness as a driver of economic performance, and the determinants of innovativeness have been investigated by management scholars and economists for decades, focusing mostly on “hard factors” as investment in research and development, or education. Focusing on a relatively neglected, but in times of globalization even more important aspect, the infuence of cultural characteristics on innovativeness, we apply diferent econometric models to test for links between cultural tightness and looseness on the one hand, and national innovativeness on the other hand. We fnd that cultural tightness—in the sense of homogenous and intolerant societies—has a negative link to national innovativeness, while cultural looseness—in the sense of tolerant and diverse societies—displays a positive link to national innovativeness. KW - DOAJ KW - DEAL KW - Innovation KW - Kultur KW - Toleranz KW - Diversity of opinion Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:due62-opus-36515 SN - 2192-5372 VL - 11 SP - 1 EP - 19 PB - Springer Nature ER -