Man-made disasters: A cross-national analysis

    Authors

    H. Park

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Int. Bus. Rev.

    Keywords

    Inverted u-curve; Man-made disaster; National culture; Safety; performance; Safety Kuznet curve; NATURAL DISASTERS; ECONOMIC-GROWTH; CORRUPTION; CULTURE; PERSPECTIVE; Business

    Abstract

    This research investigates the impact of national culture and several institutional factors on the safety performance of society and establishes statistically significant relationships between those variables. As expected, the research results reveal that some cultural variables such as uncertainty avoidance, gender orientation and institutional variables such as the degree of law avoidance can directly influence the safety performance of the society. The findings also support the inverted u-curve (Safety Kuznet curve) hypothesis indicating even if we expect a negative trend at the beginning stage of industrialization, we can expect a positive trend in safety performance as their income level continues to improve beyond a certain point. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

    Journal Title

    International Business Review

    Volume

    20

    Issue/Number

    4

    Publication Date

    1-1-2011

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    466

    Last Page

    476

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000292348900007

    ISSN

    0969-5931

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