Wade Danis

• BA, MBA, PhD
• Professor (Associate) at University of Victoria

While business studies on gender have increased, they continue to adopt traditional approaches with limited samples drawn from general populations (e.g., students and teachers). In contrast, we investigate gender differences with our focus solely on business professionals. Specifically, we study 40 societies using the four dimensions of subordinate...

Purpose We examined the attitudes of millennial-aged business students toward economic, social and environmental corporate responsibility (CR). Currently, these individuals are of an age that they have entered the workforce and are now ascending or have ascended into roles of leadership in which they have decision-making power that influences their...

Since the days of Hofstede (1980), cross-cultural comparisons of countries based on societal-level work values have been a norm. This approach has been represented more recently in Ronen and Shenkar’s (2013) 11 clusters of country cultures. However, more contemporary research found within-country heterogeneity of values/behaviors is substantial and...

This multilevel study investigated the effect of national institutional environments on the relationship between corporate responsibility practices and financial performance in multiple European countries, controlling for firmlevel predictors. By doing so, we demonstrate that neither institutional theory nor stakeholder theory is adequate to invest...

This article draws upon research undertaken in partnership with the Toquaht Nation, a Canadian First Nations community, which reveals how guiding principles that reflect Indigenous values, knowledge and heritage shape community-based entrepreneurial opportunity identification. Using a community-based participatory research approach, we leveraged in...

This multilevel study investigated the effect of national institutional environments on the relationship between corporate responsibility practices and financial performance in multiple European countries, controlling for firm-level predictors. By doing so, we demonstrate that neither institutional theory nor stakeholder theory is adequate to inves...

The objective of this article is to indicate how international business (IB) research can benefit from using sport as a research context. We present the rationale for studying organizational phenomena within sport, with a focus on benefits specific to IB research, and present examples wherein sport is used to study organizational phenomena relevant...

A substantial body of work views initial foreign market entries (FMEs) as intentional and deliberately planned by proactive decision-makers. However, research suggests that FMEs may also occur serendipitously. We take an international opportunity recognition (IOR) perspective and focus on the cognitive underpinnings of serendipitous internationalis...

Successful organizations have dynamic capabilities that are aligned with their competitive environments. As competitive environments globalize, the dynamic capabilities driven by managers with multicultural backgrounds are increasingly relevant. These managers are more likely to seize cognitively distant opportunities than monocultural managers. Us...

How does length of exposure to communism, the communist footprint, affect individuals’ influence behaviors at work today? While imprinting theory has debated how exposure/lack thereof to communism—communist imprint—affects individuals, it has disregarded the exposure’s length. We show that the shorter the communist footprint, the less negative prof...

The objective of this article is to indicate how international business (IB) research can benefit from using sport as a research context. We present the rationale for studying organizational phenomena within sport, with a focus on benefits specific to IB research, and present examples wherein sport is used to study organizational phenomena relevant...

We inductively analyze 13 international new ventures from three emerging economies to explore the role of serendipity in international opportunity recognition (IOR). Findings point to roughly equal propensities of entrepreneurs to initially recognize international opportunities through serendipity or active planning. Initially serendipitous entrepr...

Is the societal-level of analysis sufficient today to understand the values of those in the global workforce? Or are individual-level analyses more appropriate for assessing the influence of values on ethical behaviors across country workforces? Using multi-level analyses for a 48-society sample, we test the utility of both the societal-level and i...

Is the societal-level of analysis sufficient today to understand the values of those in the global workforce? Or are individual-level analyses more appropriate for assessing the influence of values on ethical behaviors across country workforces? Using multi-level analyses for a 48-society sample, we test the utility of both the societal-level and i...

The global supplier network is becoming an increasingly important asset for many firms. If successfully man-aged, supplier relationships may support the firm's strategic orientation and become a sustainable advantage on the global market. A key question is thus how the firm can develop and maintain such relationships. The market-driving strategy ha...

Drawing on data from Hungary and Ukraine, this study explores how small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in transition economies acquire the managerial, marketing, and technological knowledge they need to compete in increasingly competitive local and global markets. Although Hungary and Ukraine are at different stages of transition and levels o...

This article provides current Schwartz Values Survey (SVS) data from samples of business managers and professionals across 50 societies that are culturally and socioeconomically diverse. We report the society scores for SVS values dimensions for both individual- and societal-level analyses. At the individual-level, we report on the ten circumplex v...

To extend prior theoretical and empirical work in the IB and entrepreneurship fields, this study examines how fundamentally different institutional conditions in emerging versus developed economies may clarify variations in the level of new business activity across countries. The empirical results support the argument that social networks are more...

The authors examine the impact of rapid socioeconomic and political transition on generational differences in values and behavioral preferences via a survey of 416 Czech managers, professionals, and business students. As predicted, the pre-transition generation favored individually beneficial upward influence strategies and values oriented toward c...

This paper examines the role of social networks in the internationalization process of new ventures in the context of transition economies. We introduce a conceptual model in which the relationship between various dimensions of an entrepreneur’s network and new venture internationalization speed is contingent upon a country’s stage of institutional...

This study investigated the attitudes toward social, economic, and environmental corporate responsibilities of 3064 current managers and business students in 8 european countries. Participants in Western European countries had significantly different perspectives on the importance of these corporate responsibilities (CR) than those in central and e...

Varying institutional environments provide the foundation for a great deal of international business (IB) research yet relatively little empirical work has examined the association between institutional factors and new business development in emerging economies, although the importance of new business development for economic transition and growth...

Varying institutional environments provide the foundation for a great deal of international business research, yet relatively little empirical work has examined the determinants of small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) growth during institutional upheaval, although the importance of SME development for economic transition and growth is widely ack...

With a 41-society sample of 9990 managers and professionals, we used hierarchical linear modeling to investigate the impact of both macro-level and micro-level predictors on subordinate influence ethics. While we found that both macro-level and micro-level predictors contributed to the model definition, we also found global agreement for a subordin...

Summary This paper examines the role of social networks in the internationalization processes of new ventures in contexts characterized by different levels of institutional development. A country's level of institutional development may have a direct effect on the composition of entrepreneurs' social networks (i.e., prevalence of strong versus weak...

In this study we confirm the often assumed but largely untested belief that entrepreneurs think and behave differently than others. We examine a group of more than 700 nascent entrepreneurs and 400 nonentrepreneurs. We determine the entrepreneurs’ cognitive style propensity for problem solving (Innovator versus Adaptor); we compare their expectatio...

Malgré la diffusion du concept de développement durable dans les instances internationales, la sensibilité écologique ou sociale varie beaucoup d’un pays à un autre : alors qu’elle culmine dans certains pays elle est quasi absente dans d’autres. Si différentes raisons sont évoquées pour expliquer ces différences internationales, la littérature se f...

The aim of this article is to provide an up-to-date survey of the business environment in Bosnia and Herzegovina that may serve as a guide for doing business in this turbulent country. Our analysis provides a starting point for understanding the demographic, historical, political, economic, and cultural influences that have converged to produce one...

Advocates for a social Europe are worried that the accession of ex-Eastern Bloc countries into the European Community would lead European corporations to emphasize a financial orientation rather than a societal orientation. We examined this question in a study of the values orientations of 3,836 managers in 16 countries representing established EU,...

Transition economies are critically reliant upon the growth of new ventures to spur economic growth and employment. Most scholars have focused on the survival and performance of such ventures in the context of economic transition with few studies focusing on whether and how new ventures in transition economies grow beyond their domestic markets to...

We found that regardless of individual differences in individualistic values orientation, societal individualism moderates gender differences on views regarding self-indulgent upward influence. In more individualistic societies, where relationships are viewed in relation to self and expectations are negotiated, female managers are more accepting of...

This study investigated cross-national gender differences in attitudes toward strategies of upward influence across 16 diverse countries. We used hierarchical linear modeling to test for significant economic and socio-cultural moderators on these relationships, while controlling for demographic and organizational characteristics. Overall, compared...

This study empirically examines how a firm's strategic orientation impacts its management of innovative activities. Drawing on the strategic management and innovation literatures, we develop and empirically test hypotheses arguing that a firm's strategic orientation will impact its perception of barriers to innovation, its sources of ideas for inno...

This paper develops a framework that links characteristics of top managers to the development of bridging and bonding social capital in top management groups (TMGs), and outlines some of the strategic and environmental contingencies that influence social capital’s value to organizations. We argue that social capital is a vital operative mechanism t...

Developed market economies and transition economies are characterized by radically different institutional, economic, and cultural environments, which we expected would produce differences in business goals among MBA students. We measured differences between 103 Hungarian and 454 U.S. part-time MBAs and found that U.S. respondents placed more impor...

For managers of international alliances, the reconciliation of conflicting values, practices, and systems (VPSs) among partners is a critical challenge, which is magnified when partners originate from diverse institutional environments, such as transition and established market economies. Given the rapidly growing prevalence of international allian...

International cooperative ventures (ICVs) are known to be strongly influenced by the parent firms' values, practices, and systems (VPSs). However, less clear is whether and why VPSs actually adopted by an ICV are those of either parent singly, both parents jointly, or neither parent. This question is especially timely in the transition economies of...

Neo-institutional theory suggests that companies and managers are affected by three major pressures-coercive, mimetic and normative, which results in the isomorphism of economic actors subjected to similar institutional environments. In this paper we attempt to uncover corresponding dimensions underlying the business goals of managers working in de...

398 graduate and undergraduate students from the USA, Japan, and Hong Kong were administered Kirton's 1976 Adaption-Innovation Inventory of decision style. Factor analysis yielded different factor solutions for each of the three groups. Differences in factor structures suggest that adaption and innovation may be interpreted differently across cultu...

398 graduate and undergraduate business students from the USA, Japan, and Hong Kong were administered Kirton's (1976) Adaption-Innovation Inventory of decision style. Analysis of variance showed that mean group scores differed significantly with the U.S. respondents showing a preference for the Innovator style and the Chinese respondents the Adapto...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Indiana University, 2000.