Conceptualization

Context (archaeology)

Philosophy

Archaeology

Computer science

Phenomenon

Economic geography

Geography

Political science

Epistemology

Sociology

Artificial intelligence

Perspective (graphical)

Social science

Academy of Management Proceedings

There is a rising sense amongst scholars that our understanding of culture lacks nuance particularly in the context of differences across geographic space. More specifically, international business scholars have most often viewed culture as being homogeneous within and heterogeneous across national boundaries yet there is a growing realization that this conceptualization misses as much as it reveals. We contribute to the stream of literature that explores the nature of human culture by examining it as both a sub-national as well as a supra-national phenomenon. We provide a novel insight by introducing the concept of “global cities” as an important lens in the analysis of cultural differences in the global economy. We test our ideas on a sample of 12,935 individuals across eleven countries and our findings provide support for your hypotheses that global city culture is an important phenomenon that sheds new light on the concepts of national, subnational, and global culture. At the same time, our data suggest that global city culture is a nuanced concept that varies across regions.

Global Cities: A New Perspective on Cultural Differences at the Sub- and Supra-national Levels