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Global and Cross-Cultural Management

Global and Cross-Cultural Management is a research topic within Anthropology. Science Explorer counts 6k research works in it since 1953. 10.5% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the management practices, human resource challenges, and organizational effectiveness in the context of African indigenous knowledge and cultural diversity. It explores topics such as cross-cultural management, institutional contexts, globalization, and knowledge diffusion within the African business environment.

  • Human Resource Management
  • Indigenous Knowledge
  • Cultural Diversity
  • Organizational Effectiveness
  • SMEs
  • Cross-Cultural Management
  • Institutional Context
  • Globalization
  • Knowledge Diffusion
  • Environmental Management
Research works
6k
fractional, since 1953
In the world top 10%
634
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.5%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+19%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
17% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Global and Cross-Cultural Management

Which countries lead Global and Cross-Cultural Management research?

By volume, the United States and Germany publish the most (143 and 127 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 143 works
  2. 2 Germany 127 works
  3. 3 France 125 works
  4. 4 Kenya 120 works
  5. 5 Morocco 69 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 64 works
  7. 7 South Africa 52 works
  8. 8 Nigeria 49 works
  9. 9 China 41 works
  10. 10 India 40 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 17.3%Germany: 15.3%France: 15.0%Kenya: 14.5%6 others listed: 37.9%17%largest
United States143 · 17.3%Germany127 · 15.3%France125 · 15.0%Kenya120 · 14.5%6 others listed314 · 37.9%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Global and Cross-Cultural Management research?

By volume in 2022-now, Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy publishes the most Global and Cross-Cultural Management research, followed by Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology and Kenyatta University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Institute for Peace Research and Security PolicyGermany 90 works
  2. 2 Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and TechnologyKenya 29 works
  3. 3 Kenyatta UniversityKenya 24 works
  4. 4 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 22 works
  5. 5 Mount Kenya UniversityKenya 12 works
  6. 6 Kampala International UniversityUganda 10 works
  7. 7 University of ZambiaZambia 10 works
  8. 8 University of DoualaCameroon 10 works
  9. 9 University of Hassan II CasablancaMorocco 8 works
  10. 10 Copenhagen Business SchoolDenmark 8 works

Who are the leading researchers in Global and Cross-Cultural Management?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Global and Cross-Cultural Management include Martin McKee, Michael E. Porter and Jay Bryan Barney.

  1. 1 Martin McKee United Kingdom 270k citations
  2. 2 Michael E. Porter United States 165k citations
  3. 3 Jay Bryan Barney United States 152k citations
  4. 4 David J. Teece United States 130k citations
  5. 5 Paul DiMaggio United States 120k citations
  6. 6 Walter W. Powell United States 116k citations
  7. 7 Geert H. Hofstede Netherlands 116k citations
  8. 8 Oliver E. Williamson United States 113k citations
  9. 9 James G. March United States 111k citations
  10. 10 Anselm Strauss United States 110k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Global and Cross-Cultural Management?

The most cited paper in Global and Cross-Cultural Management is "Organizational Culture: Can It Be a Source of Sustained Competitive Advantage?" (Jay Bryan Barney, 1986), with 3,152 citations. Next come "ADOPTION OF AN ORGANIZATIONAL PRACTICE BY SUBSIDIARIES OF MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS: INSTITUTIONAL AND RELATIONAL EFFECTS." (2,528) and "Is the Resource-Based “View” a Useful Perspective for Strategic Management Research? Yes" (2,230).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Organizational Culture: Can It Be a Source of Sustained Competitive Advantage? Jay Bryan Barney · Academy of Management Review Jul 1986 3,152
2 ADOPTION OF AN ORGANIZATIONAL PRACTICE BY SUBSIDIARIES OF MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS: INSTITUTIONAL AND RELATIONAL EFFECTS. Tatiana Kostova, K. F. Roth · Academy of Management Journal Feb 2002 2,528
3 Is the Resource-Based “View” a Useful Perspective for Strategic Management Research? Yes Jay Bryan Barney · Academy of Management Review 2001 2,230
4 Strategy‐making and environment: The third link Danny L. Miller, Peter H. Friesen · Strategic Management Journal Jul 1983 1,993
5 IS SLACK GOOD OR BAD FOR INNOVATION? Nitin Nohria, Ranjay Gulati · Academy of Management Journal Oct 1996 1,967
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Global and Cross-Cultural Management research done?

The largest centres of Global and Cross-Cultural Management research in 2022-now are Hamburg (Germany), Nairobi (Kenya), Paris (France) and Kampala (Uganda). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Nairobi, Hamburg and Kampala.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 HamburgGermany 91 works
  2. 2 NairobiKenya 85 works
  3. 3 ParisFrance 29 works
  4. 4 KampalaUganda 20 works
  5. 5 LusakaZambia 17 works
  6. 6 LondonUnited Kingdom 17 works
  7. 7 MoscowRussia 15 works
  8. 8 PretoriaSouth Africa 14 works
  9. 9 ThikaKenya 12 works
  10. 10 DoualaCameroon 12 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. NairobiKE · 85.4 works69×
  2. HamburgDE · 91.0 works40×
  3. KampalaUG · 20.1 works30×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Global and Cross-Cultural Management than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Global and Cross-Cultural Management?

Among universities, judged by research, Copenhagen Business School, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology and Kenyatta University score highest, combining citation excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%mean 3.67778%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Copenhagen Business …University of ZambiaJomo Kenyatta Univer…Kenyatta University
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Citation excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Copenhagen Business SchoolDenmark 46.916.7%38.4×8 -9.2%
2Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and TechnologyKenya 38.40.6%196.0×29 +7.9%
3Kenyatta UniversityKenya 36.50.6%132.6×24 +113.9%
4University of ZambiaZambia 33.74.9%54.6×10 -
5University of DoualaCameroon 25.81.8%98.2×10 +80.6%
6University of Hassan II CasablancaMorocco 22.96.9%25.1×8 -5.5%
7Kampala International UniversityUganda 19.21.1%116.2×10 -
8Mount Kenya UniversityKenya 17.80.1%155.3×12 -
9University of NairobiKenya 15.30.4%41.8×8 +10.0%

Universities only. The score blends citation excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Global and Cross-Cultural Management, country by country

Is Global and Cross-Cultural Management research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 19% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Global and Cross-Cultural Management.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Global and Cross-Cultural Management as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0063% in 2024.

still counting0.0025%0.0050%0.0075%Global and Cross-Cultural Management0.0068% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Global and Cross-Cultural Management over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Global and Cross-Cultural Management10.1% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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