Title

Man-Made Disasters: A Cross-National Analysis

Keywords

Inverted u-curve; Man-made disaster; National culture; Safety kuznet curve; Safety performance

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. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd.

Publication Date

8-1-2011

Publication Title

International Business Review

Volume

20

Issue

4

Number of Pages

466-476

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibusrev.2010.08.004

Socpus ID

79957889272 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/79957889272

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