The Role of Culture in Economic Development

This book draws together interdisciplinary perspectives from economic history, cultural economics and cross-cultural management to analyse the impact of culture on the economic trajectories of former empires.

Chapters in the book explore the role of cultural values in shaping the institutional frameworks influencing economic development, focusing on a global selection of case studies that share a common imperial heritage. The empires reviewed consist of: The Netherlands, the Ashanti, Spain, Austria-Hungary, Germany, Turkey, France, Great-Britain, Japan and Russia. The focus on former empires enables the book to provide fascinating comparative and historical analysis of the ways in which different countries gained, justified and lost imperial power over time, and the ways in which their global influences remain today. Each contribution draws on the Steyr Intercultural Management Model (SIMM) to analyse cultural values in their broadest sense, while maintaining awareness of the limitations in defining 'culture' in different historical periods and nations. The volume also offers a unique integration of historical and cultural economic approaches that will be of interest to scholars across a range of fields.

Integrates economic history and cultural economics approaches in the study of former empires Showcases the SIMM cross-cultural model across a selection of global case studies in historical perspective Examines the role of cultural values in shaping economic development and decline

Autorentext

Jérôme Dumetz, PhD, is an academic scholar and consultant. He has published widely in the field of cross-cultural management including several chapters in Palgrave books and also facilitates cross-cultural trainings for businesses across the globe. He has held visiting professorships at more than 25 universities including The University of Economics Prague in the Czech Republic and the Technical University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt, Germany.

Emin Akcaoglu is a professor at Manisa Celal Bayar University in Turkey where he teaches international business and finance. He also teaches at the Technical University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt and at the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University in Germany.

Inhalt

Introduction.- Chapter 1. Russian Empire / Russia Jerome Dumetz & Konstantin Krotov.- Chapter 2. Ottoman Empire / Turkey Emin Akcaoglu.- Chapter 3. United Kingdom Jakub Wondreys.- Chapter 4. France Jerome Dumetz- Chapter 5. Germany Rainer Wehner.- Chapter 6. Austro-Hungarian Empire Hannes Hofstadler.- Chapter 7. City-states of the Tanzanian coastal areas Khamis Shaban Mwinyimbegu.- Chapter 8. Czechoslovakia Lucie Zimmermanová.- Conclusions.